Creating a cyber-resilient organization means understanding your security risks and how to mitigate them. However, the cybersecurity risk’s continuously shifting nature makes it challenging for organizations to choose the right risk assessment strategy. By understanding the types of risk assessments and how to use them, you can make better-informed decisions.

AT&T Alien Labs™ has discovered a new campaign by threat group TeamTNT that is targeting multiple operating systems and applications. The campaign uses multiple shell/batch scripts, new open source tools, a cryptocurrency miner, the TeamTNT IRC bot, and more.

Amazon EKS Anywhere is a new deployment option for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service that lets you create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises. With it, you can run containerized workloads in whatever location best serves your business. Carefully considering what’s needed for security will help you reduce risk and safeguard against potential threats.

1Password has been a remote company since we started more than 15 years ago. We’ve worked hard to build and maintain a remote culture, as we grew, that places value on a healthy work-life balance, transparent communication, and trust. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been included in Quartz’s Best Companies for Remote Workers 2021.

As part of the move to the cloud, everything in the enterprise is being transformed—from infrastructure all the way to modern application development. Nowhere is this change more important than in the role of the CISO.

When it comes to cybersecurity automation, there is the persistent fear that security automation is here to replace humans. And while those fears are somewhat justified, the reality is that automation in security operations is meant to aid, not hinder security professionals. And with cyber threats evolving at a dazzling rate, cybersecurity automation is slowly becoming a necessity, rather than a luxury.

Do you have what it takes to become a cybersecurity expert? We interviewed 3 security professionals to find out how they got their start and what advice they would give to someone starting their career in cybersecurity. With security threats increasing, much of business continuity has come to rely on data security. In particular, engineering teams building cloud software rely on access to an ever-growing number of computing resources.

For many years, there was a wide misunderstanding that encrypting some data is equivalent to protecting that data. If it’s encrypted, so the thinking goes, nobody else could access it, and it is therefore safe. While it is critical to encrypt data at rest as well as in transit, the job of protecting data goes much deeper.

Although external cybersecurity attacks and malware make for sensational headlines, the biggest security threat most organizations face comes from trusted insiders with privileged access to sensitive data. Cybersecurity Insider’s 2020 Insider Threat Report reveals that 68% of organizations report that insider attacks are becoming more frequent and that they feel vulnerable to them.