Technology has been an integral part of the education industry, even before the onset of the pandemic. However, the shift from traditional classrooms to online courses, virtual classrooms, and digital textbooks has taken place at a rapid pace since 2020. This transition to the digital world has widened opportunities, but it has also opened avenues for cyberattacks and compliance violations.

In part two of our blog series, The states of data, we’ll be discussing the various threats to sensitive data at rest in the form of a case study on Morgan Stanley’s data breach. Before we delve into that, let’s look at what data at rest is and see a few examples of data at rest in an organizational context.

Many businesses depend on cloud-based tools like Office 365 to run their daily business. Because of this, O365 monitoring has become much more important for making sure that your Office 365 environment runs easily, safely, and effectively. Office 365 is more than just an email service; it's a full suite with efficiency apps, tools for working together, and storage for files. But this huge environment could also be a target for cyber threats, so it's important to keep an eye on and protect its activities.

As cyber threats get smarter and more common, companies of all sizes need to make vulnerability management a top priority to keep their private data safe and their operations running smoothly. Traditional vulnerability management methods, which involve a lot of manual work and restricted visibility, aren't working well against the complicated problems that modern cyberattacks pose.

London, UK, September 24th, 2024 – We are thrilled to announce that The Cyber Helpline has emerged victorious at this year’s National Cyber Awards, securing three prestigious awards! For the fourth year in a row, we have been honored as the Not-for-Profit Cyber Award winner, alongside recognition for individual achievements, including the Alan Turing Award (Rory Innes) and the Cyber Student of the Year Award (Alex Hardy).

We're happy to announce two new Veracode Scan products: Veracode Scan for Eclipse and Veracode Scan for Visual Studio. Building on the success and adoption of Veracode Scan in Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, PyCharm, and Rider, we're releasing versions for Eclipse and Visual Studio. Now the power of Veracode’s outstandingly accurate Static Application Scanning is avaialble two of the most widely used and customer-requested IDE’s.

In the digital landscape, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into cybercriminal activities has marked the beginning of a new era of threats. The “machine war” has indeed commenced, with AI enhancing the scale and sophistication of cyberattacks. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, in particular, have become more formidable with AI’s capabilities, presenting significant challenges for cybersecurity defenses.

Microsoft Copilot for Security is a powerful new artificial intelligence tool that can help companies home in on credible cybersecurity threats amid an onslaught of noise. However, significant expertise is required to configure and operate it properly and avoid unnecessary costs. These are a few key takeaways from the webinar, "Getting Started with Microsoft Copilot for Security", presented by Dan Gravelle, Director of Global Solutions Architecture at Trustwave.

The public sector has faced a surge of cyber attacks in recent months, targeting state agencies, schools and local governments, severely affecting operations. Several recently released cyber industry reports show a steady or growing number of ransomware attacks so far in 2024. The examples below are just some of the cyber attacks against public sector organizations this past summer.