Our CFO cybersecurity survey has shown that Chief Financial Officers are highly confident in their companies’ abilities to ward off cyber security incidents, despite being somewhat unaware of the cyber vulnerabilities their business faces. Almost 87% of the surveyed executives expressed this confidence, yet 61% of them had suffered at least three significant cyber incidents in the previous 18 months.
Cloud computing has created the most profound shift in information technology in recent memory. Leveraging cloud technology, companies can build, deploy, and scale their applications faster than ever. But the adoption of cloud native tools and processes also brings new security challenges. Between complex cloud infrastructure and the expansion of cloud-based services, malicious actors have access to a bigger attack surface than they did even a few years ago.
As cyberattacks become more sophisticated and frequent, developers and security teams often become overextended in their efforts to protect their software and applications. In an article for Security, Daniel Elkabes, Mend’s vulnerability research team leader, highlights what cybersecurity leaders should invest in now to help set up their teams for the future.
Anyone who has watched the Lockpicking Lawyer realizes that certain locks promoted as the latest-and-greatest aren’t necessarily the most reliable devices for securing physical assets. Like many other security professionals, he seeks to educate consumers and manufacturers on defects in devices and how to improve their security. It reminds me of a quote by Deviant Ollam (security auditor and penetration testing consultant): "Security is achieved through openness.
One of the benefits of a secure access service edge (SASE) framework is that organizations can dramatically simplify the implementation of security services without having to go through constant network redesigns and appliance operating system updates.
Cyber-attacks happen around the clock, far more often than can ever be reported outside of the organizations they affect. But sometimes an attack is so widespread and devastating that it sends shockwaves through the business world and even into the mainstream media. Incidents like SolarWinds and Log4j were front page news, sending organizations scrambling to patch them.
1Password Business customers can now connect 1Password to Google Workspace to automate provisioning and deprovisioning tasks, saving valuable IT resources and strengthening your security posture in the process.
Everyone knows that when it comes to cybersecurity, the faster you can detect and remediate a breach, the better. In order to minimize the risk of damage, security teams need to be able to prioritize remediation efforts, so they can actively watch for exploits targeting vulnerable systems -- including those stemming from commercial, off-the-shelf tools they don’t control.
Trustwave MailMarshal has received a major upgrade to version 10.0.5 adding proprietary technologies to greatly increase the security tool’s ability to detect phishing emails, spam and malicious URLs. MailMarshal is already highly effective against phishing, but the new version’s phishing detection ability is boosted by being able to detect 40% of previously ‘hard to detect' samples the addition of these new capabilities.
