To achieve success with your project, you should pay close attention to how you manage your IT resources. If these are allocated correctly, it is easier to stay within budget, maximize the productivity of your employees or teams, and, most importantly, – deliver a high-quality project on time. However, managing these resources effectively takes time and a lot of effort.

Active Directory (AD) remains a cornerstone of IT infrastructure, serving as the foundation for user authentication, resource access, and organizational security. Whether operating a traditional, hybrid AD environment, or fully cloud-based setup, protecting Microsoft Active Directory is critical. Its central role is to make it a high-value target for attackers, necessitating robust strategies for cyber resilience and Active Directory resilience to ensure business continuity and threat mitigation.

CVE-2024-3393 is a high severity (CVSS v4.0 score 8.7) Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting specific versions of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS DNS Security feature. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to send malicious packets through the data plane of the firewall. This forces the firewall to reboot. Repeated attempts can force the firewall into maintenance mode, requiring security teams to manually reset the firewall and significantly disrupting operations.

It’s 9:00 AM, and your team is ready to tackle the day. But before they can start, access issues rear their ugly head. A developer can’t get into the staging server and IT is buried under a mountain of permission requests. Sounds familiar? Employees lose up to five hours weekly on IT access issues, while IT teams spend 48% of their time handling manual provisioning. These inefficiencies cost both time and valuable progress. So, how do you fix it?

Businesses face many dangers like never before in this age of technology. In 2024 alone, ransomware's financial impact is higher than ever, with data backup and recovery costs averaging $2.74 million—nearly $1 million more than in 2023. Ransomware also impacts company costs due to downtime, with businesses facing an average of 21 days of disruption when (and if) a ransomware attack is identified.

XDR has emerged as a go-to solution for all cybersecurity problems due to its comprehensive nature. It is a smart way to fight advanced threats by integrating and correlating data across multiple security layers from endpoints, networks, emails, servers, and cloud workloads. Fidelis Elevate is a leading example of XDR in action, providing comprehensive protection by seamlessly integrating and analyzing data from diverse security layers.

Adversaries are taking aim at cloud environments, as evidenced by the 75% increase in cloud intrusions in 2023. Organizations are under growing pressure to ensure they have measures in place to effectively detect, investigate and respond to cloud-focused attacks. Cloud detection and response (CDR) is uniquely challenging for SOC teams due to their limited visibility into the cloud control plane, resource configurations and application deployments.

Audit logs are important in maintaining the security of an organization's information systems. They record all the events taking place in a system, including log-on attempts, file access, network connections, and other important operations. Therefore, these logs must be monitored and analyzed effectively. This is achieved through audit log management.