A surge in “sophisticated, high impact” ransomware attacks has prompted the United States’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and the Australian Cyber Security Center to issue a joint advisory about the techniques being used by cybercriminals to attack businesses and organisations.
Are passwords still the most common strategy for protecting accounts in organizations? This Pulse password security survey reveals that 38% of respondents use between 4 and 6 password-protected accounts on a daily basis and 49% admit that their IT teams resolve an average of 9 password-related issues every day. The majority acknowledge that this has been exacerbated by remote working during recent months due to the pandemic.
The JFrog Security research team continuously monitors popular open source software (OSS) repositories with our automated tooling to detect and avert potential software supply chain security threats. After validating the findings, the team reports any security vulnerabilities or malicious packages discovered to repository maintainers and the wider community.
In today’s world, businesses, economies, and lives are connected by a complex spider web of code and software applications. This code and these applications drive e-commerce, financial transactions, and data input. They impact our ability to quickly transfer money from one account to another, to fill out an online mortgage application, and to order supplies from a vendor. The code that drives these systems is complicated. If something can go wrong, it will.
The term Governance, Risk, and Compliance (relatively known as its acronym ‘GRC’) is an integrated strategy for managing an organisation’s overall governance procedures, enterprise risk management, and regulatory compliance.
Kerberos authentication is a network protocol that secures user access to services/applications by using secret-key cryptography across client-server communications. The Kerberos network authentication protocol helps prevent hackers from intercepting passwords over unsecured networks.
