Software as a Service (SaaS) has become an increasingly hot topic for businesses of all sizes. Companies looking to change the way they operate after the COVID-19 pandemic have been making use of SaaS services to help them grow. But, as more companies use SaaS, so too do more cybercriminals take an interest in it. Here we look at four major threats to business SaaS security measures and analyse what your company can do to minimise the risk during 2022.

To threat actors, infiltrating an organisation's infrastructure is like a cryptic puzzle they must solve as they seek out vulnerabilities to exploit. By evolving their tactics and techniques, completing the puzzle becomes easier and so does finding common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) to target. As a result, there is a greater call for security teams to go the extra mile with vulnerability remediation efforts by combining threat intelligence with CVE findings and the guidance provided by the MITRE ATT&CK framework to zoom in on the riskiest vulnerabilities.

Last week saw the European ports were hit by a cyberattack, authorities disclosed that this was a targeted attack against Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. These threat actors have hit multiple oil facilities in Belgium's ports, including Antwerp, which is the second biggest port in Europe after Rotterdam. Among the impacted port infrastructure, there is the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp oil trading hub, along with the SEA-Tank Terminal in Antwerp.

Nigel Thorpe, technical director at SecureAge says it's time to beat ransomware criminals at their own game.

Which cultural values empower businesses to thrive today? That's an open question, of course. But I suspect most employees, managers, and analysts would include items like collaboration, transparency, and creativity on the list of essential ingredients in business success. Indeed, you could argue that these values are at the core of a variety of modern organizational and technical innovations, from DevOps (which is all about collaboration) to open source software (which centers on collaboration and transparency) and the creator/maker movement (which is, of course, all about creativity).

Data Protection Day as it's marked across Europe, or Data Privacy Day, internationally, is an annual marker in a very challenging cybersecurity challenging calendar. Consumer data is regularly stolen, and enterprises and public sector organisations are often in the headlines because of incessant attacks from cybercriminals as well as from accidental privacy misadventures.