Third parties are a necessary part of your enterprise. They are your vendors, your suppliers, your contractors, and your partners. Without them, you can’t do business. Third parties provide cloud services, store sensitive data, and provide other important services. Unfortunately, third parties are also a major source of cyber risk. Cybercriminals often target third-party providers to target their clients’ data and networks, such as the notorious SolarWinds breach at the end of 2020.

Modern-day industrial and critical infrastructure organizations rely heavily on the operational technology (OT) environment to produce their goods and services. Beyond traditional IT operations that utilize servers, routers, PCs and switches, these organizations also rely on OT, such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs), distributed control systems (DCSs) and human machine interfaces (HMIs) to run their physical plants and factories.

Details of a high severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft's proprietary browser engine 'MSHTML', also known as 'Trident', were released by Microsoft on September 7, 2021, and promptly followed by reports of active exploitation in the wild.

HIPAA compliance law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act in long form, is one of the compliance standards the public and private healthcare companies need to address for building and maintaining public trust in telemedicine. During the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has been the solution to withstand the excess influx to hospitals and health centers, avoiding unnecessary exposure of patients.

It’s exciting to share the news of our new funding round. It let us bring onboard some amazing investors and funds for further growth, along with setting the company valuation at $8.5B — a pretty big number. When you look at this valuation, and consider these smart investors expect it to grow substantially, you may wonder — how can this market be big enough to support these numbers? I would say the real question is — how can it not be?

Detectify is on a mission to drive the future of Internet security with automated and crowdsourced web solutions. API security and hacking is a pretty hot topic today and we invite 3 experts to join us for the latest Detectify Hacker School Reboot to present lightning talks on their experience and interests in hacking APIs. Detectify recently announced that we are researching, breaking and securing APIs.

Banking has changed. In the past, financial institutions outsourced their technology. They had large consulting firms creating, managing, and maintaining their back-end systems. Although banks would have knowledge of the systems in place, they wouldn’t be running them on a day-to-day basis. That was the consultants’ responsibility. Recent years have seen a significant shift in the financial sector.

5G robots began their first scouts around Singapore’s luxury neighbourhood Keppel Bay last month - a trend that will spread globally in the years to come. These autonomous robots came in several forms, and were adapted specifically for a variety of duties that gave ground staff a chance to perform their duties via proxy, away from the hot tropical sun. This included monitoring water quality, garbage collection, and security surveillance.

For healthcare organizations, cybersecurity isn’t just about staying safe and protected from evolving cyber threats—it’s also about staying compliant. The most well-known healthcare regulation of them all is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which recently celebrated 25 years on the books.

The security landscape is always changing. New features are coming out all the time, but often backward compatibility is maintained too. What this means is that while the new features may be present and active by default, it's possible for users to be completely unaware of them and continue using the legacy functionality.