Earlier this week we had the pleasure of hosting a regional API Security Summit in Chicago (well, actually in Lombard). These summits bring together the local cybersecurity community for half-day of API Security-focused content, including expert speakers and panelists. While this isn’t the first time we’ve organized an event like this, it was memorable for the quality of content and participants.

If you cannot log in to your Instagram account, you should request a login link, contact Instagram and verify your identity as the legitimate owner of the account. If your Instagram account has been hacked, you are probably panicking and trying to figure out how to protect your personal information.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re looking at four ways you can minimize your attack surface. Organizational IT infrastructure is now more spread out, multi-layered, and complex than ever.

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a critical framework for protecting sensitive information within the defense industrial base (DIB). With the transition to CMMC 2.0, organizations that do business with the Department of Defense (DoD) must ensure they meet evolving cybersecurity standards.

A reminder to read your emails with a critical eye.

In today's digital landscape, developers face mounting pressure to deliver secure applications within tight deadlines. But with faster release cycles, it becomes challenging to prioritize security. Security testing needs to work and scale within your DevOps speed and release frequency. Web applications are highly targeted assets, accounting for 40% of breaches within organizations, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report.

Your enterprise’s security can be compromised in ways you might not expect. One of the most significant threats to your IT infrastructure is privilege escalation. Understanding privilege escalation attacks and how to prevent them is crucial to enhancing your cybersecurity defenses. In this article, we explain how privilege escalation works and what hidden risks are associated with it. We also provide effective strategies for minimizing privilege elevation risks by malicious actors.

Security Colony may not have the name recognition of some of Trustwave’s other security products and services, but when experts discuss and measure Trustwave's strengths, this repository of knowledge is almost inevitably brought up in the conversation. For example, over the last several years, the industry analyst firms IDC, Frost & Sullivan, and ISG have all called out Security Colony as a primary reason why each selected Trustwave for various accolades.