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Ransomware attacks are rising. Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigation Report found that nearly a quarter of all cyber attacks in the manufacturing industry are ransomware attacks. Why the surge? While the world is still recovering from the pandemic, global markets are dealing with massive economic uncertainty and recession fears. And cybercriminals sense an opportunity.

Digitally Encrypt Secure Channel Data is a security setting used for digitally securing the data that’s transmitted over the secure data channel network. The data transmitted between the domain member and the domain controller must be encrypted and secured with the latest technology to ensure that no unauthorized user gets access to the confidential data.

The System Administrator! AKA the Sysadmin. The keeper of the network, computers – well basically all things technology. The one who is hated for imposing complex passwords and other restrictions, but taken for granted when everything works well. They are the first to be called when “facebuuk.com” reports: “domain does not exist”.

Security teams know, bug bounty hunters, and ethical hackers know it: Large attack surfaces are hard to manage. In this day and age, if you’re a medium-large organization without a comprehensive External Attack Surface Management (EASM) program in place, there’s a pretty good chance that you have some hosts on the Internet that you’re not aware of. Despite this, the concept of EASM is still new to many.

Small business owners have a ton of things to worry about, but cybersecurity should always remain a top concern. Why? The Allianz Risk Barometer lists cyber incidents as the number one business risk in 2022, ranking it higher than the shortage of skilled workers, complications from the pandemic outbreak, and natural disasters.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. To be honest, I’m surprised they still have any customers left. Yet another breach at T-Mobile ….

For the next interview in our series speaking to technical leaders from around the world, we’ve welcomed Matt Polak, CEO and Founder at Picnic Corporation. Matt Polak is a subject matter expert in intelligence collection, having spent his career applying these skills to intractable growth and competitive strategy challenges for Fortune 500 customers.

Having effective enterprise cybersecurity is more than having your employees create a password that isn’t their pet’s name—unless perhaps their cat’s name is at least 12 characters long, and a combination of upper- and lower-case letters and symbols. Whether it’s well-researched spearphishing attempts or bypassing MFA, threat actors have only become more daring.

Recently, we announced that 1Password Business customers will soon be able to unlock 1Password with Okta.

This week, UK’s Postal Service, Royal Mail has been hit with a Ransomware attack, which put the countries sensitive data at risk. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at what ransomware is, how it can affect businesses and individuals, and what we’ve learnt from this huge scale attack. Stay tuned for more updates on this developing story.