Data drives the modern economy. The right type, amount, and quality of data lets organizations better understand their customers. This understanding enables companies to build more accurate customer profiles, design personalized marketing programs, refine retention strategies, and nurture meaningful long-term customer relationships. Simply collecting this data, however, is not enough. Data only becomes valuable when it is transformed into insightful information.

Five Guys Enterprises, LLC oversees the management of services delivered by “Five Guys,” a national restaurant chain throughout the US. The restaurant is available in more than 1,450 locations, 900+ cities, and every state (except Alaska). Their prominent location distribution and policy of every order being “served to go” makes Five Guys a top contender for dinner; however, now, their prosperous history may be at risk following a data breach stemming from their employees.

CISOs and security leaders are constantly being reminded that cyber risk is now a business risk. And at the same time, organizations are realizing the financial implications of not having cyber expertise on their boards.

In today’s dynamic digital landscape, the security of hybrid networks has taken center stage. As organizations increasingly adopt cloud solutions, like Azure, the complexities of securing hybrid networks have grown significantly. In this blog post, we’ll provide an overview of the key products and solutions presented in the recent webinar with Microsoft, highlighting how they address these challenges.

Money laundering is a pervasive and complex issue, with criminals going to great lengths to legitimize the proceeds from their illicit activities. They aim to obscure the origins of “dirty money” and reintroduce it into the economy through legitimate means, eluding law enforcement authorities. This process comprises three crucial Money Laundering Stages: Placement, Layering, and Integration.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have consistently been a chief concern of security teams. However, common misconceptions still exist. Some view that DDoS attacks are merely nuisances or inconveniences – that they are volumetric and straightforward to defend against – and that the DDoS defenses most organization use today are fully capable of rendering these threats obsolete.

When a ransomware group launched twin cyber attacks on casino giants MGM and Caesars, they only needed the accidental participation of the organizations’ outsourced IT help desk to get started. It was social engineering — in this case impersonation over the phone, or vishing— that gave the hackers the information they needed to launch a ransomware attack that cost both casinos millions.

Let me give you a quick introduction. My name is Stu Sjouwerman. I’m the Founder and CEO of KnowBe4, my 5th startup. I have been in IT for 40+ years, the last 25 of those in information security. In my last company we built an antivirus engine from scratch and combined it with intrusion detection, prevention and a firewall. And we ran into a persistent problem nobody seemed to be able to address; end-users being manipulated by bad actors to let them in.

SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) systems play a crucial role in modern cybersecurity frameworks. They collate log and event data from an array of sources within an organization’s network, facilitating real-time analysis and long-term storage of this crucial information to uphold security standards. A core component of SIEM’s effectiveness lies in its correlation rules, which are designed to detect specific patterns or anomalies that might indicate a security issue.

Firewalls are one of the most important cybersecurity solutions in the enterprise tech stack. They can also be the most demanding. Firewall management is one of the most time-consuming tasks that security teams and network administrators regularly perform. The more complex and time-consuming a task is, the easier it is for mistakes to creep in.