The government of a U.S. county announced on September 11 that a recent cyber incident had disrupted its online services. Subsequent coverage of the event has noted that it strongly resembles a ransomware attack. The disruption comes against a backdrop of frequent ransomware activity targeting state and local governments and the education sector.
Love them or hate them, passwords are often the only thing standing between attackers and your sensitive personal and financial information. Despite their importance, less than 50% of people feel very confident that their passwords are secure from compromise, according to a 2021 Security.org survey of password habits. There’s probably a good reason many are worried about their passwords.
Today, we are delighted to announce that Nightfall has launched the first and only DLP solution for Asana. As part of this launch, Nightfall has joined the Asana Partner program as an official Technology Partner. Nightfall’s solution for Asana builds comprehensive data protection into the Asana app.
Hello, I love to look behind the scenes of SecOps teams to learn how they operate. Recently I had the pleasure to work with John Eccleshare, Head of Compliance and Information Security, at bet365 as John took the stage at Gartner Security and Risk Summit in London.
Splunk introduced Federated Search in July 2021 to much fanfare. We won’t go into too much detail about how it works because there is already a great writeup in a previous blog along with Splunk Federated Search documentation.
The number of cybersecurity events faced by companies and businesses across the globe has grown exponentially since the pandemic began. Without adequate network security monitoring practices and around-the-clock monitoring in place, the chances of a cyber incident happening are highly likely. However, not all companies can afford to have a team of highly trained network admins watching over their network 24×7.
Incident response is one of the most challenging tasks that IT teams face. It's challenging not just because it typically involves many stakeholders and moving pieces, but also because teams usually face pressure to respond as quickly as possible. That's why investing in incident response automation is a wise choice. Although it may not be possible to automate every aspect of every incident response workflow, being able to automate at least the major elements of incident response will yield incident management processes that are faster, more reliable, and more consistent.Keep reading to learn about the components of incident response and which incident response activities to start automating.
