Happy October! The leaves are changing and everyone is starting to get ready for the upcoming holidays, but let’s not forget one of the most important holidays of the year—Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Though our audience is almost entirely cybersecurity experts, we wanted to put something together to help the less technical people in our lives learn more about AI and cybersecurity, because Cybersecurity Month is for everyone.

Have you ever heard of CVEs? Maybe not by their acronym, but Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, monitored by the CVE Program Mission, are everywhere. As of the writing of this article, there are over 220,000 CVE Records available—meaning many potential threats you could be exposed to. How can you ever protect your infrastructure against this reality? Well, the good news is, you usually don’t have to.

As Kubernetes and containerized environments become the backbone of modern application development, securing these environments grows increasingly complex. The distributed nature of microservices, the dynamic scaling of workloads and the ephemeral nature of containers introduce unique security challenges. Traditional approaches to risk assessment — where vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and threats are identified and prioritized in isolation — often fall short in such environments.

Advanced Persistent Threats or APT are a growing concern in the business world. Hackers are constantly improving their tactics and adopting new vulnerabilities. Organizations are scrambling with the increasing sophistication of attacks and are ready to invest in cybersecurity solutions in the hopes of early Advanced Persistent Threat detection and mitigation. However, before choosing a solution, it is important to understand the meaning and nature of APT.

As cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated, traditional security measures such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDS) are no longer sufficient. That’s why Network Detection and Response (NDR) is brought into the picture, to provide better and advanced solutions. It comes with real-time detection, automated responses, and advanced analysis. This blog focuses on the protective defense capabilities of NDR in cyber security.

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! A bit ouch I would say. Bad luck…

HIPAA, an acronym for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is one of the most important federal regulatory frameworks for healthcare organizations. It’s an elaborate law that imposes many stringent requirements for patient privacy and data security on governed organizations. Complying with HIPAA demands having a strict internal system to address its often complex and ambiguous requirements.

Penetration testing is something that more companies and organizations should be considering as a necessary expense. I say this because, over the years, the cost of data breaches and other forms of malicious intrusions and disruptions are getting costlier. Per IBM Security’s “Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024,” the average cost of a breach has increased 10% year over year, with the healthcare sector having the highest cost breaches for 14 consecutive years.

Resilience is one of the hottest topics of the moment, but for good reason. For most organizations, suffering a cyberattack is a matter of when, not if. Attackers are, lamentably, always one step ahead of defenders and, as such, responding to an attack and maintaining business operations have become arguably more important than protecting an organization in the first place.

No matter what device you’re using, be it desktop, mobile, or tablet, all the data you store there is at risk of data loss. You could face data loss or cyberattacks such as ransomware unless you protect these files. Securing these devices with endpoint backup is essential for businesses and teams to protect against breaches, data loss, and other threats that can disrupt operations.