KrakenLabs has developed a new naming convention that uses poisonous plants to represent the origin and criminal activities of threat actors. This approach provides a creative way to classify different types of threat actors, allowing security professionals to quickly understand the nature and behavior of the threat actor, which is helpful for identifying and mitigating threats effectively.
As a risk-based response to the continuous, and varied assaults on our systems by criminals, the PCI DSS standard requires a minimum of 20 technical scans per full year for merchants, and 21 for third-party service providers (TPSPs)
The most crucial component of any federated partnership is the token-signing certificates, which serve as a key validation method to guard against malicious tampering and security token fraud. These certificates employ a private/public key pairing to authenticate that a legitimate partner federation server issued a security token and confirm that the token was not altered in transit, these certificates employ a private/public key pairing.
The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) is a collection of rules published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that outlines how to store and handle sensitive data securely. It is a fundamental security precaution that all companies must use to protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII). FIPS defines best practices for data encryption, authentication, and access control.
If you use the Azure cloud, Azure security groups should be on your radar because they’re a fundamental component of securing your resources. As we move into 2023, 63% of SMB workloads are hosted in the cloud, and cyber threats continue to increase, with 45% of breaches reportedly being cloud-based. The good news is Azure security groups act as virtual firewalls, allowing you to define and control access to your network resources, such as virtual machines, subnets, and applications.
Coping with limited resources is a common challenge for security operations teams. Whether it’s due to budget constraints, staffing shortages, or other factors, security teams often need to find ways to do more with less. Let’s talk about some strategies we can use to achieve success in this environment.
The report informs government policy on cyber security whilst educating organisations on current threats, and how they can best protect themselves from attacks. This year’s report explores the policies, processes and approaches of modern cyber security, alongside the different cyber attacks and crimes that businesses, charities and educational institutions are facing.
Just as your organization thinks it is prepared, new cyber threats appear. In March 2023, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) published its list of the 10 top cybersecurity threats to emerge by 2030.
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a distributed file-sharing system that represents an alternative to the more familiar location-based hypermedia server protocols (like HTTPS), is seeing more use in file-storage, web-hosting, and cloud services. As might be expected, more use is accompanied by more abuse via phishing attacks.
