Dr. Neil Daswani, codirector of the Stanford Advanced Security Certification Program, is coauthor with Moudy Elbayadi of “Big Breaches: Cybersecurity Lessons for Everyone,” released last month by APress. He is also president of Daswani Enterprises, his security consulting and training firm.
Understanding who you share data with and how they will utilize and protect it has never been more critical. Privacy and security continue to be a top priority for regulators around the world and organizations are advised to stay abreast and take appropriate measures to comply.
Digital attackers are increasingly launching sophisticated campaigns in an effort to target U.S. federal agencies and other organizations. Two recent examples demonstrate this reality. These are the SolarWinds supply chain attack and the HAFNIUM Exchange exploit campaign.
“Corporate cybersecurity” refers to the tactics and methodologies that organizations use to safeguard sensitive data, prevent unauthorized access to information systems, and protect themselves from cyber attacks such as malware or ransomware attacks, trojan viruses, social engineering or phishing email, endpoint breaches, and so forth. Cybercrime can be catastrophic for small businesses, but even large enterprises don’t have the luxury of taking cybersecurity for granted.
Customers often ask me: What is the difference between Zero Trust and SASE? My answer is almost always the same: Nothing….and, everything. Both have taken the industry by storm over the last couple of years, and even more so with the security and access demands on the business driven by the existing remote workforce, but both have different implementation approaches. It is important to understand, however, that one does not fully provide the other; in fact, they reinforce each other.
The number of users, devices, and resources on company networks is growing exponentially. With this expanding attack surface, a company’s assets, intellectual property, reputation, staff and customer data are all at risk. It’s no wonder cybersecurity has increased in prominence, with many organizations investing in more sophisticated technical solutions. But just because you have all the network security solutions in place, it would be unwise to get complacent about your security posture.
With cyber criminals operating around the world, it’s more important than ever that businesses start understanding IT security. Afterall, 86% of UK organisations expect cyber attacks to increase, and 33% of hacked companies admit to losing customers after a breach. As an individual, a business, or a government or a nation-state, IT security is something that should be taken seriously.
With high-risk vulnerabilities popping up every other week, realising there is no such dream ‘patch everything’ and configuration changes slowly add up to weakening your infrastructure security. Vulnerability management and scanning are core components of a solid cyber security strategy, ensuring a sound risk management process. Vulnerability management helps an organisation keep an eye on their assets, both from asset management and operational security.
Detectify is on a mission to make the Internet safer through automation and crowdsourced hacker knowledge. We recently published “A guide to modern web application security” for SaaS and tech organizations looking to bring their security up to speed with development. Download your free copy of the guide here. Organizations are shipping code daily, making it challenging for security teams to keep track of changes in the web application and keep up with new security threats.
Cloud native has been a growing trend as organizations shift away from on-premise infrastructure and longer software release cycles towards a more iterative development approach using cloud-based tooling and infrastructure. While cloud native applications enable rapid deployments and greater scalability, this emerging software approach also introduces security challenges.
