Adopting proactive security against firmware vulnerabilities is more critical than ever. A vulnerability survey from Ponemon Institute showed that 60% of data breaches result from unpatched vulnerabilities, highlighting how delays in firmware patch deployment can severely weaken an organization’s defenses. Firmware supports key devices like routers, switches, and firewalls, and when compromised, can grant attackers persistent access to critical systems.

In the late 1990s, the rapid expansion of computer networks highlighted the need for affordable network visibility tools. The Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) emerged as a significant advancement, enabling packet capture and filtering within the BSD operating system. BPF is the precursor of today’s widely used eBPF, and was originally released together with an accompanying library, libpcap.

Just about every organization works with some amount of sensitive information, but the defense industry’s information is more sensitive than most. That’s why the United States Department of Defense (DoD) created the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). This cybersecurity model helps protect controlled data in the defense industry — and, by extension, the military personnel who rely on that data to stay productive and safe.

It’s finally here! Microsoft’s new external authentication methods (EAM) is now available in public preview, set to replace custom controls. For the past couple of months, we’ve been working closely with the Microsoft Entra ID team to bring you this highly anticipated security enhancement. External authentication methods integration with CyberArk delivers enhanced security while simplifying user experiences.

If mobile devices aren’t a high priority in your security posture, they should be. About two-thirds of employers consider smartphones “critical to agility and speed of decision-making,” and some would even consider phasing out PCs entirely. As a starting point, consider using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework. This set of guidelines from the U.S.

It should be no surprise that the costs associated with a corporate data breach can be high. (The average total cost is now nearly $5 million, according to IBM.) What may be more alarming is the average length of time it takes for businesses to recover from a breach – and what that means for their security teams, business operations, and bottom line.

The adoption of cloud services and the shift to remote work have rapidly expanded the attack surface. In many ways, identities are arguably now at the frontier of cybersecurity – which means traditional identity and access management (IAM) approaches are increasingly inadequate. Cyberattacks are also growing in sophistication, in part through exploiting vulnerabilities in the traditional, fragmented IAM systems that many companies are still using.

In recent events, Foresiet researchers identified a significant data leak involving Nokia's internal resources posted on a dark web marketplace. This leak, allegedly stemming from a third-party contractor working closely with Nokia on internal tool development, brings to light both sensitive code repositories and critical access credentials.