Over the last few months, there have been a number of credential-based breaches, including the attacks on Ticketmaster, Santander Bank, and others. As details regarding this string of attacks continue to be uncovered, it is critical that organizations take precautionary measures in order to protect themselves and their customers from potentially being compromised by cybercriminals.

Discover the power of our new WAAP dashboard, designed to effortlessly monitor, analyze, and enhance your security posture—all in real time. The dashboard provides enhanced visibility and actionable insights to secure assets, prioritize remediation, and address critical exposures. Instantly find answers to questions such as: What is my application’s protection status? What common attacks does the WAAP protect against? Which countries are the top sources of blocked traffic?

Last week (19-July-2024), a significant IT outage occurred because CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon security software running on millions of computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system. This faulty update caused many of these computers to crash, which interrupted the operations of businesses across the globe.

An Economist article published in June 2024 claimed that China is actively targeting US SMEs for long-term sabotage and for financial gain through sustained IP theft. With China using previously undetected methods of ‘cyber warfare’, it’s increasingly important that US companies adopt Zero Trust protection for their most valuable IP data.

Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) runs your Windows network and keeps mission-critical legacy apps and workflows running at some organizations. Replacing can be a big commitment and migration planning is an essential step to undertake before kicking off your project. Big commitments are made for very good reasons. Consider that AD has become a top target for cyber attackers and doesn’t meet modern IT requirements.

Learn more about GitGuardian SCA commitment and fast adaptation strategies to safeguard the software supply chain of its users.

Containerized applications deliver exceptional speed and flexibility, but they also bring complex security challenges, particularly in managing and mitigating vulnerabilities within container images. To tackle these issues, we are excited to introduce Layered Analysis — an important enhancement that provides precise and actionable security insights.

In this episode of the Trust Issues podcast, we explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on identity security. Guest Peretz Regev, CyberArk’s Chief Product Officer, joins host David Puner, for a discussion about how AI is reshaping cyber protection, offering solutions that are as intelligent as they are intuitive. With the ability to predict threats and adapt with unprecedented agility, AI is ushering in a new era of proactive security.

The explosive growth in connectivity and the geopolitical environment is putting critical infrastructure around the world at risk. Connecting legacy industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that critical infrastructure runs on to IT environments, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and out to the Internet makes it easier for cybercriminals and state-sponsored groups to gain access to systems and conduct malicious activities.

Beginning in early July 2024, Arctic Wolf responded to multiple SocGholish/FakeUpdate intrusions that resulted in a seemingly benign payload being delivered as a second-stage download. The zip file payload contained software from the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) project, open-source software that allows users to contribute computing power to scientific research projects focused on solving complex calculations.