A company can accumulate massive amounts of information that security analysts are not able to monitor instantly. This can mean that priority security alerts either go unnoticed or are considered a false alarm because the appropriate technology is not available, which results in organizations failing to take action in time.
Today’s threat landscape is evolving rapidly. Attackers are constantly adjusting their tactics and finding new ways to infiltrate organizations with increasingly sophisticated attacks to steal valuable data. As such, businesses and IT professionals must remain up to date on the industry’s latest threat intelligence in order to better understand the current state of this cybersecurity landscape and know their enemies to shore up defenses.
The migration of assets to the Cloud has been the common denominator in company business strategies over the last two years, coupled with the rising number of incidents involving the theft of sensitive information and user passwords on Cloud platforms. According to the Verizon Data Breach Report 2021, in 2020 29,207 real-time security incidents were detected, out of which 5,258 were confirmed data breaches.
Today, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced further actions to disrupt Cyclops Blink, a sophisticated state-sponsored botnet that affected network devices from multiple vendors, including a limited number (less than 1%) of WatchGuard firewall appliances.
It should be no surprise that both knowledge workers and the companies that employ them want to benefit from hybrid work environments. After two years of a new remote workplace routine, businesses must provide workplace flexibility to compete for the best talent, allowing employees the option of working from a corporate office or elsewhere.
Over the last two years, the healthcare sector has been the number 1 target for hackers who have attempted to attack health centers or even the health department of an entire country. The industry faces threats such as ransomware that blocks the whole healthcare system, deceptive techniques such as phishing, or breaches of sensitive data.
Most company decision-making executives know how blockchain technology works but few have adopted it within their organization at this stage. This is the conclusion drawn by the latest Pulse survey conducted on 145 senior IT managers from companies on three continents. It shows that only 8% have experienced this technology, compared to 53% who know how it works but are yet to use it.
Spring is a good time to do some cleaning; put away winter clothes and ski gear, open windows and let spring breezes clear out the dust that gathered through the winter. But it’s also a good time for IT and cybersecurity teams to “spring clean” their security postures as well. Below we share 10 quick and easy ways to “clean up” your cybersecurity practices and adapt to the security threats we face daily.
April 2020, Zoom was booming. The start of the COVID pandemic forced employees to work from home, meetings in person migrated to a videoconferencing model, and Zoom was the preferred tool. The massive and fast growth led into an opportunity for attackers. A vulnerability in Zoom could allow an attacker to steal a user’s Windows credentials, as long as the target user would click on a link provided through a Zoom session. The question was then how to get into those private sessions.
In today's ecosystems, a single enterprise can operate multiple internal networks, remote offices with their own local infrastructure, remote and/or mobile individuals and Cloud services. According to the study published by NIST, this level of complexity is too much for legacy network security models that are based on the location of the company infrastructure and there isn’t a single, easily identifiable perimeter for all elements.
