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In the recent ​​MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluation, CrowdStrike demonstrated the power of its unified platform approach to stopping breaches. Facing attack emulations from the highly sophisticated WIZARD SPIDER and VOODOO BEAR (Sandworm Team) adversaries, the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform: The results show that CrowdStrike stands alone in providing a unified approach to stopping adversaries from progressing attacks.

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The idea behind World Password Day is simple: to promote the use of strong, unique passwords to keep your accounts protected and your browsing safe. For those of you wondering how best to celebrate the day, we’ve got a challenge for you: how high can you get your 1Password Watchtower score? While a high Watchtower score won’t give you access to better loan rates, it will give you peace of mind. Not to mention some bragging rights, too.

Over US $43 billion has been lost through Business Email Compromise attacks since 2016, according to data released this week by the FBI. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) issued a public service announcement on May 4 2022, sharing updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks which use a variety of social engineering and phishing techniques to break into accounts and trick companies into transferring large amounts of money into the hands of criminals.

Today, Calligo announced that we have partnered with BigID. The BigID data intelligence platform enables organizations to know their enterprise data and take action for privacy, security, and governance. This partnership will enable Calligo to provide clients with the ability to proactively discover, manage, protect, and gain more value from their regulated, sensitive, and personal data across their data landscape.

While the stakes for private sector organizations differ drastically from governments that have to protect state secrets like hacking tools or nuclear technologies, businesses do have their own needs for Data Loss Prevention measures. Organizations can face the threat of data like their intellectual property (IP), source code, customer details, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), financial info, and many other types of information being stolen or corrupted.

There is a bit of serendipity associated with World Password Day 2022. This year the day falls on May 5, the day before the first anniversary of the devastating Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, which was initiated through a compromised password. The combination of National Password Day and the Colonial Pipeline anniversary should help remind everyone that password security is incredibly important and ever evolving.

Teaching about password security in the early 2000s would usually start with a question to the audience: how many of you have up to 10 passwords to remember? How about 25? Anyone with more than 50? Today I usually start with “how many credentials do you believe to have still active? Less than a hundred?”

Most organizations adopt cloud and containers to accelerate application development, but by adopting a secure DevOps approach and embedding security into the DevOps workflow, you can ensure security controls don’t slow down developers. Check out these key considerations to keep in mind as you put together your plan for securing clouds and containers.