Managing and mitigating cyber risk has never been more challenging for companies. Cyber threats are growing exponentially. Daily, hackers are becoming more sophisticated. Businesses rely more on data to function: experts expect that cybercriminals will steal more than 33 billion records this year alone. With an increasing reliance on third-party vendors and cloud services, IT teams are essentially forced to leverage complex infrastructures with significant vendor risk.

In the wake of Killnet’s latest DDoS attack on U.S. hospitals on January 30, SecurityScorecard has made its KillNet open proxy IP blocklist available to the public. This list is the product of the SecurityScorecard Threat Research, Intelligence, Knowledge, and Engagement (STRIKE) Team’s ongoingresearchintoKillNet. We released this list to help organizations better defend themselves against KillNet and other groupslike it by preventing traffic from exploitable assets.

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How geopolitics and hacktivism is causing trouble for the healthcare industry

With organizations becoming increasingly digitally connected, a lack of visibility into their vendors’ security diligence has made exploiting these relationships a go-to tactic for cybercriminals. So, what can organizations do to minimize risk stemming from their business ecosystems?

If you missed the first part of our series (What will be the top cybersecurity threats in 2023?) we highly recommend you go check it out here. ‍

We’ve all got our heads in the cloud, or if not yet, we’re well on our way there. In other words, the process of digital transformation is happening at such a pace that almost all organizations will soon be working in the cloud and using cloud-native technology. Analyst Gartner has predicted that by 2025, over 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms. This represents a 30% growth from 2021.

The idea behind “SPoF,” or “Single Point of Failure,” is that if one part of a system fails, then the entire system fails. It’s not desirable. In IT and security circles, if a system or application can be disrupted or degraded severely by the failure of just one component or subcomponent, then we usually deem the design to have a flaw.

As we look towards 2023, it is important to gain insight from top cybersecurity experts on the emerging threats and trends in the field. In this interview series, we spoke with four leading CISOs in order to gain their perspective on the threats, trends, and their personal goals as CISOs in 2023. Meet our panel of distinguished CISOs who will impart their foresight and guidance on the future of cybersecurity in 2023. ‍ ‍