In a digital landscape teeming with possibilities, safeguarding your business with a robust Internet of Things security framework is paramount. From interconnected devices to data privacy concerns, the stakes are high. Let’s delve into the realm of IoT security and unveil the crucial reasons behind fortifying your business against evolving cyber threats.

Today’s global IT outage affecting Microsoft Windows users was caused by a bug in a CrowdStrike product (Falcon Strike) protection content update. The resulting widespread impact demonstrates an urgent importance for maintaining strong quality assurance (QA) processes before products or their updates are released into production.

Over the last decade, cybersecurity has emerged as a critical concern for financial institutions. With cyberattacks increasing in frequency and sophistication, it has become imperative for institutions in the financial sector to safeguard sensitive data and implement robust data protection measures. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly known as the Dodd-Frank Act, plays a crucial role in regulating the American financial services industry.

Knowing Your Supply Chain (KYSC) is becoming an increasingly important component of cyber resilience. Understanding the dependencies within your organization and those of your vendors is critical for responding to incidents effectively. Even the most reliable vendors and partners can experience issues. Today, a widespread outage impacted CrowdStrike Falcon, affecting the global supply chain.

Our team at Arctic Wolf has been following the CrowdStrike issue affecting Windows endpoints since approximately 12 AM EST on July 19th, 2024. Although Arctic Wolf’s service is not impacted, some of our customers who leverage CrowdStrike for endpoint security are experiencing widespread outages. Arctic Wolf continues to protect and monitor these customers’ environments while they focus their attention on recovering from this event.

IT asset management (ITAM) is a structured system for organizing, provisioning, deploying, maintaining, and deprovisioning business assets. It allows organizations to keep track of IT assets like hardware and software systems, as well as the data those systems process.

If your passwords were exposed in the RockYou2024 leak, you should immediately change them, set up Multi-Factor Authorization on your account and monitor your account for suspicious activity. RockYou2024 is now the largest password leak to date, with almost 10 billion passwords revealed on a popular hacking forum. Due to the magnitude of this leak, many people around the world are concerned for their online safety.

No, you should not use ChatGPT to create passwords because it will likely produce the same password for multiple users and what you input will live on in its database. For those of you who are unfamiliar with what ChatGPT is and does, it is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) program used to follow instructions through prompts and provide a user with answers to both simple and complex questions.

New data puts the spotlight on the frequency and impact of modern ransomware attacks, highlighting the overconfidence organizations are showing in their ability to defend and respond to attacks. If you’re like one of the organizations surveyed in Halcyon’s latest Ransomware CISO Survey report, the findings were quite eye opening.

In the world today, there is a plethora of critical data circulating the internet, leading to complex attacks like brute force attacks. Individuals who are after this data for the wrong purpose and who use brute force attacks to gain access to these data are called cyber attackers.