The onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic brought about many changes and disruptions in cybersecurity. Organizations globally shifted to remote work scenarios to enable their employees to work from the comfort of their homes. Since this was a sudden decision, many organizations lacked resources to ensure security while users were operating from locations across the world. These redefined security perimeters provided leeway for bad actors to perform cyberattacks.

In our 2021 Security Predictions, the WatchGuard’s Threat Lab team anticipated that authentication would be the cornerstone of strong security. “With billions of usernames and passwords ripe for the picking on the dark web and the prevalence of automated authentication attacks, we believe that any service without MFA enabled will be compromised in 2021,” said WatchGuard CSO Corey Nachreiner.

When it comes to deploying scripts for Intune admins, there is only one script method available: Intune PowerShell Scripts. PowerShell can be a powerful format, but you likely have existing scripts you want to leverage with your domain-joined and non-domain-joined machines. Intune script capabilities don’t enable you to deploy VBscripts, batch scripts, or JavaScript scripts. The screenshot below shows the full complement of options available for script deployment using MEM (Intune).

Organizations of all sizes are struggling to keep up with the increasingly complex and evolving cybersecurity landscape. Threat actors aren’t just hunting large corporations, they’re aggressively targeting small and midsize businesses, too. As networks become more porous and cyber threats rise, organizations that lack in-house security expertise will increasingly become targets of attack and their losses will grow.

For the third year in a row, WatchGuard has been honored at Channel Partner Insight’s 2021 Channel Innovation Awards. This year, Senior Vice President of Marketing Michelle Welch was named the “Security Channel Chief of Year.” This annual awards program celebrates the partners and vendors that have brought true value and innovation to the managed services market and made a real difference to their customers over the last 12 months.

Hackers are highly trained cybercriminals with access to resources capable of compromising a system in an organization without being detected. And malwareless attacks – where cybercriminals access critical business networks without malware – are on the rise.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has issued a directive to federal agencies and other public bodies requiring them to take steps to reduce their risk of exploited vulnerabilities. CISA highlights the startling finding that hackers are exploiting up to 290 different vulnerabilities in these agencies.