In an ornate boardroom, a group of executives gathered at a large round table for their annual strategic planning meeting. Morgan, the CEO, was surrounded by Lana, the VP of Sales; Susan, the CISO, Smith, the COO; and Barbara, Chief Compliance Officer. There was much to get done in the next twelve months, so they were passionately debating how best to invest their limited budget to achieve their goals and to address various sources of risk.

Businesses are always looking for ways to control and reduce the cost of doing business as well as gain a competitive advantage over their respective competitors. The constant pressure of doing more with less has introduced many offerings designed to reduce the cost and complexity of the IT/OT infrastructures that support the business. Let’s take a look at some offerings that have been introduced to address these challenges.

Indicators of compromise (IOCs) are pieces of forensic data, such as system log entries, system files or network traffic that identify potentially malicious activity on a system or network. Digital forensics security analysts and information security professionals use indicators of compromise to detect data breaches, malware infections and other security incidents.

As the year comes to a close, it’s normal for CEOs to reflect on the preceding 12 months. This is a special time in the history of Egnyte, so this look-back can only be done with the additional perspective of the past 12 years, as well as a look forward to 2020.

Detectify year in review: 2019 has been quite a journey so far with expansion to the US and doubling our size. Join us for a proverbial toast to the year as we share a recap of our highlights.

Throughout the year, we have conducted hundreds of penetration tests. 20% of all tests contained a critical to high flaw. We define a critical issue as a flaw which poses an immediate and direct risk to a business. Having a critical flaw in an app or network will leave you vulnerable to a costly, reputation damaging data breach. Among these, default or poor passwords, as well as access control issues make up a large portion with outdated software being the worst offender.

At Bearer, we use GraphQL to allow our Dashboard application to communicate with our database. Recently we gave this GraphQL API a re-design. Here are a couple of lessons we learned during the process.

With so many acronyms in cyber security, it isn’t always easy to distinguish between the many product and service offerings available. This can create significant confusion for IT and security personnel that need to make quick purchase decisions to address holes in their security coverage.

It is that time of year again where we look forward to what cyber goodies the New Year brings. 2019 brought new records in data breaches, a rash of ransomware attacks, and a rise in state-sponsored cyber-attacks. Below is a quick list of what me may expect in the 2020. 2020 also will be the dawn of a new decade that will bring technological transformation that will permeate all aspects of our lives, including cybersecurity.

The largest hospital system in New Jersey said it paid an extortion fee to hackers who had disrupted medical facilities with a ransomware attack. A spokesperson for Hackensack Meridian Health, based in Edison, New Jersey said it was working to restore its computer systems following a Dec. 2 ransomware attack that forced administrators to cancel roughly 100 elective medical procedures.