The NIST cybersecurity framework is a set of guidelines and best practices to help organizations improve their security posture. The recommendations and standards allow the organization to be better equipped to identify and detect cyberattacks and provide guidelines for responding, mitigating, and recovering from cyberattacks. In this guide, we discuss everything from the core functions of the NIST framework to how Appknox can help you automate NIST compliance management. So, let’s dive right in.

The increase in cloud adoption has been met with a corresponding rise in cybersecurity threats. Cloud intrusions escalated by a staggering 75% in 2023, with cloud-conscious cases increasing by 110%. Amid this surge, eCrime adversaries have become the top threat actors targeting the cloud, accounting for 84% of adversary-attributed cloud-conscious intrusions.

The Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) has identified problems in Zephyr OS related to protecting against internet protocol (IP) address spoofing attacks. Zephyr OS is a popular real-time operating system used in connected, resource-constrained systems like Internet of Things and embedded devices. It is highly customizable and supports multiple architectures, systems-on-a-chip, and boards, making it useful for a wide range of applications.

Learn how to effectively respond to an AWS key honeytoken trigger with this step-by-step guide. Investigate the incident, identify the leak source, secure your environment, and leverage OSINT techniques to protect your AWS infrastructure.

Organizations today are highly dynamic, with employees, contractors, and other users constantly joining. Accordingly, IT administrators often need to create user objects in Active Directory (AD) or Entra ID (formerly Azure AD). While manually creating a single user is easy, repeating that process for multiple users is tedious and time-consuming. Moreover, it is highly prone to errors that can put security and productivity at risk.

PHP is a popular server-side scripting language that is widely used for web development. PHP developers can ship and deploy more high-quality software products by leveraging static analysis tools that help mitigate PHP code errors, security vulnerabilities, and other issues that can impact the quality and security of the application if not addressed early in the development cycle.

In an age when 70% - 90% of successful data breaches involve social engineering (which gets past all other defenses), sufficient training is needed to best reduce human-side cybersecurity risk. Everyone should be trained in how to recognize social engineering attempts, how to mitigate (i.e., delete, ignore, etc.) them, and how to appropriately report them if in a business scenario. The amount of time an organization should devote to security awareness training (SAT) is still up for debate.

The threat group "RA World" (formerly RA Group) has shifted from country-specific ransomware attacks to include specific industries via a new - not previously seen - method of extortion. I don’t like it when I hear about ransomware groups growing, but that's the case in TrendMicro’s new analysis of RA World ransomware. What was once through to be a smaller operation focused on attacks targeting organizations in South Korea and the U.S.

The following paragraphs were cited directly from my recent article highlighting social engineering. "Social engineering and phishing are involved in 70% to 90% of all successful cybersecurity attacks. No other initial root hacking cause comes close. This is not a recent development. Social engineering has been the number one type of attack since the beginning of networked computers. Despite this long-time fact, most organizations do not spend 3% of their IT/IT Security budget to fight it.

This is the second in a series of four posts about shadow IT, including how and why teams use unapproved apps and devices, and approaches for securely managing it. For a complete overview of the topics discussed in this series, download Managing the unmanageable: How shadow IT exists across every team – and how to wrangle it.