In the early morning of July 19, a software update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor started to cause one of the most extensive IT outages in history, affecting several industry sectors, including financial services, healthcare, transportation, and others. According to CrowdStrike, the outage stemmed from “a defect found in a Falcon content update for Windows hosts.” At this point, the software update has not affected Mac and Linux systems.

As we are all very aware, being a technical person or layman, the recent CrowdStrike outage caused disruptions on a myriad of systems worldwide, affecting multiple industry sectors and millions of people in some way, shape, or format.

In today's digital landscape, businesses heavily rely on third-party software for their daily operations. This reliance has led to a surge in software supply chain attacks, which are becoming increasingly prevalent and sophisticated. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities in external tools or services to gain unauthorized access and compromise systems.

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face the critical challenge of maintaining robust data security while ensuring seamless access and collaboration. As businesses become increasingly digitized, the volume of sensitive and confidential information shared across departments, with suppliers and partners, has skyrocketed. This digital transformation brings numerous benefits but also heightens the risk of data loss, leakage, and unauthorized exposure.

MuddyWater deploys BugSleep malware, researchers discover malicious files on the npm registry, and Void Banshee exploits a Microsoft MHTML flaw.

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In the age of digital collaboration and cloud computing, access control is a critical security tool. It is crucial to ensure that only authorized users have access to the appropriate information in order to effectively manage security, adhere to privacy and industry regulations, and safeguard intellectual property (IP) for competitive advantage.

With any IT environment, especially the public cloud, security is a top concern and priority. When leveraging the public cloud, one of the most important steps to ensuring a protected environment is recognizing the shared responsibility model, as it delineates the security obligations between the cloud provider and your organization.

No one feels the pain of ransomware and other disruptive and costly digital cybersecurity attacks more than the people managing the day-to-day in your SOC (Security Operations Center). At 13 attacks every second in 2023, cybercriminals, fraudsters and nation-state hacktivists are overwhelming SOC analysts. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of SOC analysts report the size of the attack surface has increased. At the same time, CISOs and SOC managers are struggling to handle on-the-job analyst burnout and turnover.

Let’s start with statistics: continuous integration, deployment, and delivery is among the top IT investment priorities in 2023 and 2024. To be exact, according to GitLab’s 2024 Global DevSecOps report, it is on the 8th place (and security is the top priority!). However, it shouldn’t be surprising, as CI/CD practice brings a lot of benefits to IT teams – it helps to accelerate software delivery and detect vulnerabilities and bugs earlier.