XDR and MDR are cybersecurity solutions to enhance an organization's threat identification and response capabilities. While both solutions target the same objective, they employ different approaches. MDR strengthens an organization's internal security team with external expertise, whereas XDR streamlines security architecture through a centralized dashboard and automation of tedious tasks.
Would you bet your business on the strength of every employee’s password? If you haven’t deployed business-grade MFA and credentials management throughout your organization, you are probably on the losing end of that bet. Here’s why: Despite the challenges, passwords are not going anywhere any time soon.
The multiplicity of devices and the need to access network resources from anywhere has blurred the traditional security perimeter and extended it beyond the office, making endpoint security an essential pillar of a company's cybersecurity strategy. Both antivirus (AV) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions are designed to secure devices. However, these solutions provide very different levels of protection.
Digital transformation has changed the way people make purchases. The growth of ecommerce has led to credit cards becoming one of the most widely used payment methods, but mismanagement could jeopardize the integrity and security of company and customer data.
The growth of the managed service provider (MSP) business and its ability to increase profits depends primarily on one aspect: efficiency. However, a recent study points out that improving operational efficiency is the biggest challenge MSPs face in obtaining consistent growth and profitability. To tackle this, 66% believe that automating as many procedures as possible is a key IT operations issue for enterprises in 2023. Improvements in automation have become a top priority for MSPs.
Managed service providers (MSPs) must be prepared to defend their customers against advanced threats and, to do so, they need to keep track of different data sources by deploying solutions that are designed to improve their customers’ security posture through effective detection and proactive responses to potential incidents.
Ransomware is still present and growing across the threat landscape, to the extent that some organizations now include the cost of a ransomware attack in their annual budgets. Data from our Internet Security Report - Q4 2022 reveals that ransomware detections on endpoints rose by an alarming 627% in 2022 compared to the previous year. While ransomware does not discriminate by industry type, the report clearly shows the manufacturing sector was the most affected during 2022.
Despite the security controls that OpenAI has imposed on ChatGPT to try to make it a secure space capable of assisting users in a variety of tasks, cybercriminals have managed to exploit this technology for malicious purposes. Recent research has shown that this generative artificial intelligence is capable of creating a new branch of polymorphic malware with relative ease. The main risk lies in ChatGPT's versatility, which allows it to create code that could easily be used for malware.
Zero trust is not a new cybersecurity concept, yet it seems everywhere lately. In case you’re unfamiliar with zero trust, it is defined as an approach to security that assumes no implicit trust between users, devices, or networks as a baseline, and once a user has been verified as legitimate, authorized, and trustworthy, access is allowed. Zero trust has been so effective as a cybersecurity strategy that the U.S.
