In late October, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) co-authored an advisory report on the latest tactics used by cybercriminals to target the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. In the report, CISA, FBI, and HHS noted the discovery of, “…credible information of an increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S.

So, you’re a ransomware gang and you want to ensure that you have caught the attention of your latest corporate victim. You could simply drop your ransom note onto the desktop of infected computers, informing the firm that their files have been encrypted. Too dull? You could lock infected PCs and display a ghoulish skull on a bright red background (most ransomware seems to insist upon using a shade of red.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, is designed to keep individuals’ medical information and health records safe. Healthcare organizations must ensure HIPAA compliance, even — perhaps especially — during the current global pandemic. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S.

Everyone at Devo is proud of the way our cloud-native logging and security analytics platform empowers security and operations teams to maximize the value of all their data. We have recently received kudos from industry analysts and awards from several industry organizations.

It’s PS5 launch day and dedicated fans have been queuing all morning to get their hands on the limited number of consoles available. So far, we’ve seen John Lewis, Tesco, Currys PC World, Game and Argos struggle under the enormity of tens of thousands of visitors. John Lewis was offline entirely while those with a queuing system in place found that slowing the flow of traffic alone was not enough to protect retailers from over selling stock.

Security teams are in a difficult position: they continue wrestling with persistent problems, such as overwhelming alert volumes and staff shortages, while confronting new ones driven by the abrupt shift to remote work. For instance, attaining real-time, deep visibility into cloud environments may have been on SOC roadmaps before 2020, but the capability is now a pressing need.

For many organizations, the past several years have been defined by an unending pursuit of data privacy and cybersecurity. Prompted by a daunting threat landscape, new regulatory standards and increasingly onerous consequences, companies invested millions in securing their digital infrastructure as an all-in attempt to meet the moment.

In the day and age of COVID-19 we have witnessed a transformation of the way we work. If I were asked before March of 2020 how long it would take to make the progress in digital and security transformation that we as a society have made in the last 9 months, I would have guessed at least 5 years. The rate of adoption in the face of the pandemic has been unprecedented. Nowhere have the changes required to make remote working come on faster than with education.

“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is an adage about Internet anonymity which began as a caption to a cartoon. And it has been perceived that way since then! Who knows who is behind the curtains of internet?

Regulatory authorities are still trying to catch up with cloud computing let alone the revolution that business digitalization is causing as there is no longer a data center to audit or a firewall log to review.