Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Businesses today are more dependent than ever on technology, making strong threat detection and response strategies essential. Cybercriminals in the modern world are constantly looking for new and creative ways to hack into organizational networks and steal sensitive data. Comprehensive visibility is a crucial element that is sometimes paid less attention to yet is the foundation of efficient threat detection and reaction.

2,200 cyberattacks occur daily, with an average of 39 attacks every second. As we come up with new strategies to keep our network secured, hackers never fail to figure out the loopholes and hijack our devices.

In the latest instalment of our interviews speaking to leaders throughout the world of tech, we’ve welcomed Phil McParlane, CTO and founder at 4dayweek.io.

We’ve compared passkeys to passwords and magic links, and recently explored two-factor authentication (2FA) and time-based one-time passwords (TOTP). We think this calls for a passkey and 2FA face-off, don’t you?

The NIS2 Directive, published in December 2022, sets out a series of measures for improving cyber risk management throughout the European Union. All EU member states must apply the Directive as part of national law by October 2024. By the same date, all applicable organizations must comply with the measures set out in NIS2.

MITRE ATT&CK® is a globally accessible knowledge base of 14 adversary tactics and over 500 techniques based on real-world observations. The first model was proposed in 2013 and publicly released in 2015 which has been gathering momentum over the last couple of years.

Windows 10, which is still the most widely deployed operating system on desktops, has announced end of support for October 14, 2025. The current version, 22H2, will be the last version of Windows 10, which means that Microsoft will stop providing support and security updates for that particular version and any vulnerabilities discovered after the EOL (End of Life) date will not be fixed by Microsoft, leaving your operating system, and that of your customers, exposed to security risks.

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