We are trusted by the world’s most iconic brands with protecting their valuable business assets. Being named The Official Cyber Network Provider of The Boston Red Sox and Fenway Park demonstrates the importance for companies to adopt intelligence powered cybersecurity. When you have millions in revenue on the line like the Red Sox, you can’t afford to ignore intelligence.

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Many of us in the information security sphere have sat in front of a console and furiously executed various queries while either mumbling internally or externally, with varying levels of stress and frustration: what is going on? When investigating a particular system, an odd event, or a declared incident, we are all attempting to answer this question in one way or another. Detections, documented threat hunts and security operations procedures do not manifest out of thin air.

As we near the halfway point of 2024, it is apparent that the epidemic of extortionary cyber attacks will continue unabated into the foreseeable future. Now more than ever, I believe that until organizations adopt cultural approaches to cybersecurity, breaches will continue to wreak havoc on companies and industries.

On May 9, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) officially adopted new Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) requirements for Internal Network Security Monitoring (INSM). This is one of the last steps before Federal regulators make it an official standard for utilities and the electrical power grid industry. What does it mean? Compliance for CIP-015-1 is coming to your utility. Utilities will need monitoring tools with deep and wide asset intelligence and network control.

Container security has experienced significant transformation over the past decade. From the emergence of foundational tools like Docker to the maturation of orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, the container security landscape looks different than it did even a few years ago. With Gartner predicting 95% of organizations will be running containerized applications in production by 2028, it’s clear that container security is going to be a key priority for most organizations moving forward.

Research has revealed that since 2021 there has been a material increase in QR code phishing (or ‘quishing’), as cybercriminals continue to exploit available technology and their widespread familiarity. The once rare payload is nearly fourteen times more common in 2024 than it was three years ago, accounting for only 0.8% of attacks in 2021. This figure jumped to 1.4% in 2022, a staggering 12.4% in 2023, and has plateaued at 10.8% from January to March 2024.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! A story of a total train crash… Good guy hits bad guy, hits another bad guy and maybe someone wins…

Data theft, data protection and the leakage of passwords or secrets are the top two cloud security concerns for 2,400 cybersecurity experts, according to the recently released CyberArk 2024 Identity Security Threat Landscape Report. In an ever-brewing digital ecosystem of multi-cloud environments, countless on-prem and SaaS applications – and third-party and fourth-party providers, 94% of organizations report having faced at least one identity-related breach in the last 12 months.

Сyberattacks and the threats they pose are becoming more complex every day. Therefore, no user, including Mac users, is immune to viruses, malware, and cyberаttacks. For a long time, Mac computers were thought to be less vulnеrable to such threats than Windows ones. But that does nоt mean they do nоt need reliable protection. After all, as mentioned above, nothing stands still and threats are also improving.