Modern innovations change the face of the modern digital world. Meanwhile, the risk of cyberattacks remains a disaster for every organization. A platform effectively uses humans, technology, and resources to secure organizational functions. It works continuously round the clock to eradicate and rectify all sorts of attacks. Organizations adopt such platform depending on their level of competency in providing security services to their customers.

At the heart of almost every business interaction lies trust. Whether logging in to a website, providing information over the phone, or interacting via email, trust is essential when the communication involves money, sensitive data, or both. To win a victim’s trust, gain access to a secure system, receive sensitive data, or insert malicious software, cybercriminals use various tools and tactics to mask their identity or disguise their devices. These tactics are the foundation of a spoofing attack.

The only constant you can count on in technology is change. From microprocessors to PCs to smartphones to software, technology continues to become faster, smarter, and more sophisticated. But make no mistake: what’s changed the most in the world of technology over the past few decades is the hacker. Hackers are highly motivated to stay ahead of the latest security trends. It’s how they keep from getting caught, and how they keep the fun and profit rolling.

It’s difficult for even the most advanced security teams to stay on top of evolving incursions and ensure their processes effectively map to prevent them. That’s where pre-built templates come into the conversation. No-code, security automation templates can handle the considerable burden of having to maintain and update processes that integrate with a company’s security stack.

The business world is changing fast. The shift to hybrid or remote models and the rapid adoption of cloud services are allowing employees to work from anywhere, while giving the companies they work for the chance to increase innovation and stay ahead of their competition. The cybersecurity industry has changed as well, with those same innovations creating new challenges for IT and security teams.

On Wednesday, August 3, 2022, Cisco disclosed two critical-severity vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-20842 and CVE-2022-20827) impacting RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 series small business routers. Both vulnerabilities are due to insufficient validation but differ in how they are exploited.

Exciting times are here at Arctic Wolf. This week, we celebrated a pair of awards recognizing our status as an industry innovator and employer of choice, with rankings on both the Forbes Cloud 100 and Fortune Best Medium Workplaces list.

On Tuesday, August 2, 2022, VMware disclosed a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2022-31656) impacting multiple VMware products, including VMware’s Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager (vIDM), and vRealize automation. If successfully exploited, the vulnerability could allow a threat actor with network access to the user interface to obtain administrative access without needing to authenticate.

It was an exceptionally hot July in many parts of the world, and cyberspace was no exception. High profile hacks in July affected people in all walks of life, from casual gamers and social media posters to air travelers and medical patients. Still, we hate to be the bearers of exclusively bad news, so we’ve included one silver lining amongst our usual bank of dark clouds.