While remote work has many benefits, it can increase the risk of employees suffering from directed attention fatigue (DAF), where they find themselves unable to focus due to constant distractions. This is due primarily to isolation and the constant bombardment of emails and instant messages. In fact, one of the most worrying types of DAF for security professionals is email fatigue.
Infrastructure as code (IaC) promises to make developers more agile, but it’s not without risk. Learn more about what IaC is, its benefits, and best practices for how to use this technology securely.
Last year, as most people were stuck at home, many of us became even more dependent on e-commerce sites than we were already. Unfortunately, that includes cybercriminals too. In 2020, scams targeting the checkout forms of online retailers rose by 20%, according to reports.
Teleport will be live at re:Invent from Nov. 30-Dec. 2. If you are there, please stop by Booth 718 and talk to me and the Teleport team about how we can improve your security and compliance of apps running on AWS. If you can’t make it in person, here is my top 10 list of things you should know about AWS and Teleport. Check out our Teleport on AWS page for more info.
Tuesday, November 30th, is National Computer Security Day. Although this special day has been around since 1988, many people are not only unaware of it, but are still also unaware of some of the basic security required for protecting their computing devices. The rise of remote work has stretched the security perimeters of all corporations, and fortunately, there are products, such as Tripwire Enterprise that can help them to protect the organization, from the full computing systems, to data storage.
Threat actors are constantly evolving their tactics and techniques in the attack lifecycle and infiltrate company infrastructure. While most organizations are already performing vulnerability management based on CVEs by MITRE, few have considered the powerful correlations between threat intelligence, CVEs and the ATT&CK® framework. In this blog we highlight the benefits of bringing them together to drive focused remediation and improve cyber defense.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has issued a directive to federal agencies and other public bodies requiring them to take steps to reduce their risk of exploited vulnerabilities. CISA highlights the startling finding that hackers are exploiting up to 290 different vulnerabilities in these agencies.
At our recent Data Security Summit, Bipul Sinha sat down with author and award-winning The New York Times cybersecurity journalist Nicole Perlroth to discuss learnings from her research and thousands of interviews with security leaders, government officials, hackers, spies, and more.
The real risk of business disruption, brand damage, and potential liabilities caused by ransomware attacks has elevated cybersecurity from a technical or operational issue normally handled by security teams, to a major Board level priority and discussion. Even the most sophisticated and mature organizations that once believed their cybersecurity defenses were robust are now rethinking their preparedness and response capabilities required to address the imminent threat of ransomware attacks.
