The public sector continues to be a target for cybercriminals as ransomware attacks and data breaches hit government organizations at all levels, incurring large financial costs and operational disruptions. The public sector is especially vulnerable to cyber attacks for a variety of reasons, including legacy systems, lack of resources, large amounts of sensitive data and the fact that it manages essential services.

If you save your passwords in a browser password manager, your passwords may be at risk of becoming compromised. This is because browsers frequently remain logged in, meaning if someone gained access to your device they’d have access to all your stored passwords. Additionally, if your browser were to become compromised, everything stored in your browser would also be at risk of becoming compromised due to weak encryption standards.

Positive security outcomes don’t happen by chance — they result from a culture in which security is ingrained and embodied within and by everyone, from the executives through the employees. This fact has led to an overdue shift in organizational thinking, with recent research revealing that 88% of global organizations currently use some form of security awareness program, with another 10% in the process of adopting such a program within the next 12 months.

FedRAMP, the federal risk and authorization management program, is a comprehensive and structured way to develop a security – mostly cybersecurity – position when working with the federal government. It’s a framework meant for contractors and third-party businesses that handle information for the government and who need to keep it secure. The question is, if you’re a cloud service provider, what are the benefits of implementing FedRAMP?

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is the gold standard for protecting cardholder data. With the recent release of version 4.0, the focus on securing APIs has intensified. But what does this mean for your organization, and why shouldn't you take API security with a grain of salt (pun intended)?

ASUS recently issued a firmware update to resolve a critical security vulnerability affecting seven different variants of its router models. Identified as CVE-2024-3080 with a CVSS v3 severity score of 9.8 (critical), the vulnerability permits remote attackers to take control of the affected router models without needing any login credentials.

Knowing what you don’t know is the key to keeping an organization safe and the best method of doing so is with an offensive security approach that includes vulnerability scanning. By being proactive one can identify exploitable weaknesses in your own systems before malicious actors can. Here's why vulnerability scanning is an essential part of any offensive security solution: Vulnerability scanning is just one piece of the offensive security puzzle, but it's a crucial one.