As we approach the holiday season, we wanted to focus this month’s post on you (and your family). Bad guys don’t just wait until the holidays to start causing havoc, they also relentlessly target all of us all throughout the year. Judging by our perseverance, nothing is going to keep us from a good holiday deal, and attackers love to use this season to their advantage. Therefore, we must all keep a frosty demeanor (pun intended) to protect ourselves.

It would be nice to imagine that when cyber criminals look for their next target, they ignore the small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that simply can’t afford an attack. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. In fact, 43% of cyber attacks are directed at SMBs. Today, a massive 80% of North American SMBs are at risk of a cyber attack.

We’re looking forward to hearing Forrester’s research into bot threats over the past year, and sharing expert opinions on what businesses need to watch out for going into 2023, in an upcoming webinar. The webinar will feature Forrester Senior Analyst Janet Worthington, alongside our CPO and co-founder Andy Still and Head of Threat Research Matthew Gracey McMinn. Register now: How will bots impact your business in 2023?

To improve the efficiency of releasing working code into a production environment, implementing a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline is a great practice. These pipelines automate the process of checking that a code change is ready for release and provides tools to automate the release to a production environment. One popular way to do this is to use your existing version control system.

Over 22 billion records were exposed worldwide across 4145 publicly disclosed data breaches in 2021. These data breaches would be less likely if businesses strictly adhered to cybersecurity compliance. Noncompliance can have other significant consequences, including legal penalties, damage to reputation, and loss of third-party trust. Cybersecurity compliance is the one area that no business should neglect it. They have vital information to protect from hackers.

Malware is one of the prime issues for modern-day organizations and individuals. This is a bit surprising to know because with the advancement of technology, encryption and other powerful security methods are in place to avoid cyber threats. No doubt these methods are in place, but cyberthieves somehow always find a way to hack into any device and steal data. One of the prominent and easy ways to get into a person’s PC is via software.

A CISO (chief information security officer) is a company's senior executive responsible for developing, managing, and implementing its organization’s security program and improving its cybersecurity posture. The CISO oversees the information security programs, protects organizational data and assets, develops IT infrastructures, builds security teams, and handles the overall IT security of the company.

India’s ever-expanding digital infrastructure in the wake of the pandemic has escalated the demand for new, updated, and improved regulatory mandates for strengthening cybersecurity. Rampant cybersecurity incidents have been occurring weekly, alarming businesses, organizations, and individuals across India.

With each passing year, hacker attacks become more advanced and sophisticated, so keeping up with security vulnerabilities is now more crucial than ever. This article highlights some of the most dangerous vulnerabilities exploited by malicious actors in 2022.

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) aims to automate the identification and remediation of risks across your entire cloud infrastructure. A core requirement of the CSPM framework is the need to enforce a principle of least privilege. There are certain overlaps with Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) solutions. CIEM is a newer categorization that came after CSPM.