There are more SaaS applications in use by businesses than ever before—and the adoption rate is only going to continue to increase. According to Netskope’s annual Cloud & Threat Report, SaaS adoption continued to rise in enterprise environments throughout 2023, with users constantly accessing new, mostly unmanaged, apps and increasing their use of existing apps.

Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) serves as a strategic framework for evaluating an organization’s security posture. CTEM is specifically designed to identify and address vulnerabilities and other security gaps within an organization’s digital infrastructure. In essence, CTEM is a systematic approach to fortify cyber defenses and mitigate potential security risks effectively. Gartner, which created CTEM, sees it as a sort of Vulnerability Management 2.0.

In an alarming revelation, First American Financial Corporation, the second-largest title insurance company in the United States, disclosed that a cyberattack in December resulted in a significant data breach affecting 44,000 people. This incident underscores the importance of robust cybersecurity measures and services such as phishing takedown, online risk evaluation, stolen credentials detection, and darknet monitoring.

In today’s complex IT ecosystems, extending equal protection across the entire network is simply not feasible. Instead, organizations need to determine which systems are inherently most critical and prioritize maintaining their operational integrity through effective IT monitoring: tracking performance and activity across servers, applications and other technology components.

While often considered a newer threat, and rightly so given its fast-rising dominance among the cybercrime landscape, ransomware is not a recent innovation in the ongoing cyber war. It stretches back decades to the early days of the internet, email, and even floppy discs.

Distributed networks, including software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN), content delivery networks (CDNs), and secure access service edge (SASE) architectures have become integral to modern IT landscapes. They provide unparalleled performance, scalability, and flexibility, empowering businesses to operate seamlessly across geographical boundaries.

A website directory, also known as a virtual directory functions similarly to a folder on a local machine, however, it exists on the web server’s file system and provides a structured and secure way to organize website content on an IIS server. Website directories act as logical containers for all the files that make up your website, including HTML pages, images, scripts, music, configuration files, and application binaries. Permissions assigned to directories control access to their contents.