The new discovery service, delivered by the CyberArk Identity Security Platform, introduces new capabilities and streamlines the scanning of environments containing *nix, Windows and MacOS target machines. The new service offers SaaS-based flexible scans, local accounts discovery based on endpoint agents, data collection and enhanced automation using Discovery rules.

Protecting your business-critical data and applications requires understanding two essential strategies: high availability and disaster recovery. While both aim to keep systems operational, they serve distinct purposes and operate on different timelines. This article explains these key differences, provides implementation best practices, and showcases advanced solutions that combine these crucial strategies.

Today's digital world is always at risk from malware, so it's more important than ever to have good safety habits. Most of the time, the first thing a company does when they find a disease is isolate the threat. This process comes up with the idea of "quarantined malware," which is malicious software that has been found and put somewhere else so it can't do more damage. For a company, this is a very important part of their security plan because it keeps systems safe from attacks.

Where are your credentials and secrets, and how are you protecting them? These are fair questions, considering the pervasiveness of secrets sprawl. We recently conducted research over 12 months to determine where enterprises’ secrets were residing within their systems, like GitHub, Confluence, Zendesk and Slack. In addition to API keys and passwords, secrets like SSL certificates, usernames and others are spilling into enterprises’ cloud environments and increasing the risk of a breach.

However, while the retainer model has evolved to meet changing security needs, not all options offer the flexibility required in today’s complex threat landscape. This article outlines how the incident response retainer has changed and continues to develop in scope, and also looks at the different types of available retainer models.

It's more important than ever to protect network assets as cyber threats keep changing. Encrypting Ethernet IP addresses is one way to make a network safer. This helps keep private data from being intercepted and accessed by people who aren't supposed to be there. For businesses that want to make their network interactions safer, they need to know how to encrypt Ethernet IP address. Encrypting network addresses makes data sent over Ethernet less vulnerable to attacks.

Welcome to the Threat Context Monthly blog series where we provide a comprehensive roundup of the most relevant cybersecurity news and threat information from KrakenLabs, Outpost24’s cyber threat intelligence team. Here’s what you need to know from October.

Security configuration management (SCM) is all about making sure your security systems do what you think they’re doing. In tennis, there is something called an unforced error. This is when a player loses points for a mistake they made themselves, not due to the skill of the other opponent. In a big way, security misconfigurations are those unforced errors on the security side or instances in which we give attackers a free win. Let/node/29512/’s stop that.

Each October, the cybersecurity industry recognizes Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an international initiative first launched by the National Cybersecurity Alliance in 2004 to provide education about online safety and empower individuals and businesses to protect their data from cybercrime. This October, Keeper Security took this important commemorative month one step further. We decided that it’s time to move from knowing digital risks to taking decisive action to prevent damaging cyber attacks.

A recent report from UK Finance covered by the BBC paints a concerning picture of the evolving landscape of financial fraud. With a 16% rise in fraud cases and criminals stealing over £3 million daily, it's clear that awareness of cybersecurity threats has never been more crucial. Why Social Engineering Continues to Triumph At the heart of many of these scams is the fact that even the most robust technological defenses can be circumvented by exploiting humans.