Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

How vulnerable are credit unions, the bedrock of community finance, to rapidly advancing cyber threats? CISO Global understands that credit unions’ member-owned and not-for-profit structure allows their banking counterparts to outpace them in allocating resources for cyber defenses. While credit unions are deeply committed to protecting member data, their budgetary constraints might limit their ability to invest in the most advanced cybersecurity technologies and staff.

These statistics show that organizations struggled to maintain basic cybersecurity practices in 2023. But what can organizations do to improve their networks and help prevent attacks in 2024?

2024 is almost here, and that means PCI DSS 4.0 will soon go into effect. The newest version will have some mandatory controls on March 31, 2024, for those who store, process, or transmit card payment data. While its predecessor weighed in at 190 pages, PCI DSS 4.0 is 486 pages and includes 63 new security controls.

Cybersecurity, DNS (Domain Name System), and your company are interconnected topics in the field of network security. Protecting a company’s cybersecurity, including its DNS infrastructure, is of utmost importance in today’s digital landscape. DNS is responsible for translating user-friendly domain names into machine-readable IP addresses, allowing devices to communicate with each other over the internet.

Validating the security of your organization’s sensitive information at a single point in time with an annual risk assessment can be helpful, but what about the other 364 days of the year? If you have a cloud application and hope to sell your services to federal agencies, point-in-time assessments won’t be enough.

Cloud application, platform, and infrastructure vendors (cloud service providers, or CSPs) do a great job of advertising online. They offer seemingly painless ways to sign up for their services through “freemiums” and two-week trials, advertisements that follow you from Google to LinkedIn, and what appear to be straight-forward sales processes.