Logs are the cornerstone in today’s cybersecurity monitoring, investigation, and forensics. According to a Fortune 500 report, an organization’s IT infrastructure can generate up to 10 Terabytes of log data per month. In this post, we will learn about log aggregation and monitoring; then analyze how they can help businesses to strength their cybersecurity posture.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. What a week of news this has been, more MageCart, a few large take downs, and some surprising breaches. We start with a first, the first ‘hack’ from space.
Sensitive data is information that must be protected against unauthorized access. Access to sensitive data should be limited through sufficient data security and information security practices designed to prevent unauthorized disclosure and data breaches. Your organization may have to protect sensitive data for ethical or legal requirements, personal privacy, regulatory reasons, trade secrets and other critical business information.
A data leak is when sensitive data is accidentally exposed physically, on the Internet or any other form including lost hard drives or laptops. This means a cyber criminal can gain unauthorized access to the sensitive data without effort.
Personally identifiable information (PII) is data that could identify a specific individual. Information that can be used to distinguish an individual's identity from another or be used to deanonymize anonymous data is also considered PII. While PII has several formal definitions, think of it as any information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact or locate a particular person.
This article will give you insights into the common PayPal hoaxes circulating these days. Additionally, you will learn how to keep your payment experience safe when using the popular service in question.
The recent IBM 2019 Cost of Data Breach survey found that the cost of a data breach had risen 12% over the past 5 years to $3.92 million on average. While 51% of the data breach attacks were attributed to malicious or criminal actors, a stunning 24% of the breaches were caused by negligent employees or contractors. The report also notesed that the 51% of the criminal actors included, “malware infections, criminal insiders, phishing/social engineering and SQL injection.”
Logs have been important actors of cyber security environments for a while now. In this article, we will take a closer look on log monitoring and how it can help cyber security operations of your business.
