Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In a world where AI is everywhere, cybersecurity regulations are on the rise, and cyber insurance is booming, we need standardized metrics for cybersecurity. Remember, you can’t manage what you can’t measure. A recent report by SecurityScorecard and the Cyentia Institute discovered a startling fact: 98% of organizations have a third party with a breach in the last two years. In cybersecurity, metrics matter; knowing how to communicate and report on metrics is essential.

Staying ahead of cyberattacks and strengthening your organization’s defenses doesn’t happen overnight and can be hard to accomplish without the right tools and cyber strategies. SecurityScorecard’s Threat Intelligence team hosted a webinar that highlights the importance of threat exposure management, its latest trends, and how to implement this framework into an organization’s cybersecurity plan.

Database security often, and to an organization's detriment, falls between the cracks as security and IT teams scramble to stay on top of daily cyber hygiene tasks and deal with the never-ending problems of running their network. The danger of overlooking their database, or to put it in, say, banking terms – the vault – is this is likely a threat actor's primary target. An organization's database is where IP, credentials, and financial information are stored.

As we are in the midst of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and in the lead-up to our own Secure Connected Future Summit which we are hosting in November, I feel that a lot of the focus when it comes to cybersecurity still tends to be on prevention tactics. However, I would argue that it is not just about having the right defensive cybersecurity tools in place, but it is also about understanding how the organisation will recover from an incident – how quickly and at what cost to the business.