Threat actors are constantly evolving their tactics and techniques in the attack lifecycle and infiltrate company infrastructure. While most organizations are already performing vulnerability management based on CVEs by MITRE, few have considered the powerful correlations between threat intelligence, CVEs and the ATT&CK® framework. In this blog we highlight the benefits of bringing them together to drive focused remediation and improve cyber defense.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has issued a directive to federal agencies and other public bodies requiring them to take steps to reduce their risk of exploited vulnerabilities. CISA highlights the startling finding that hackers are exploiting up to 290 different vulnerabilities in these agencies.

At our recent Data Security Summit, Bipul Sinha sat down with author and award-winning The New York Times cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth to discuss learnings from her research and thousands of interviews with security leaders, government officials, hackers, spies, and more.

The real risk of business disruption, brand damage, and potential liabilities caused by ransomware attacks has elevated cybersecurity from a technical or operational issue normally handled by security teams, to a major Board level priority and discussion. Even the most sophisticated and mature organizations that once believed their cybersecurity defenses were robust are now rethinking their preparedness and response capabilities required to address the imminent threat of ransomware attacks.

If your organization handles any type of payment processing, storage, or transmission of credit card data electronically, you’ll be very familiar with PCI DSS (formally known as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). This standard exists to protect debit and credit cardholder data from unauthorized access via data breaches, ransomware, and other security breaches. However, with the rise in these breaches also comes the rise in changes and rules to the PCI DSS.

A famous 2011 article by security adviser Roger Grimes is intriguingly titled, “To beat hackers, you have to think like them.” In the article, Grimes explains that IT security professionals must view IT systems through the eyes of hackers — and search ways to break into these systems, identify weaknesses, and create robust security measures. That is exactly what penetration testing is all about.

From innocent but costly mistakes to fraudulent manipulations, all organizations are subject to significant risks that can jeopardize financial reporting or lead to the loss of corporate assets. That’s why it is imperative to establish a robust system of internal controls to reduce or prevent such threats to the organization.

Cyber Monday and the holiday shopping season are around the corner: don’t be the victim of an online shopping scam or cyber security breach. Cyber Monday is here, and the holiday shopping season is in full swing. With some of the world’s biggest brands vulnerable to a Magecart attack, you can’t be too careful with your credit card information.

An enumeration attack is when cybercriminals use brute-force methods to check if certain data exists on a web server database. For simple enumeration attacks, this data could include usernames and passwords. More sophisticated attacks could uncover hostnames, SNMP, and DNS details, and even confirm poor network setting configurations. Every web application module that communicates with a user database could potentially become an enumeration attack vector if left unsecured.

In a recent Tripwire survey, over 300 respondents from both private and public sectors said that implementing Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) could materially improve cybersecurity outcomes. This result seems like a positive outcome since we don’t often get such a unanimously high confidence level in a specific security approach from survey data.