The attack surface of your organization is the total number of attack vectors that could be used as an entry point to launch a cyberattack or gain unauthorized access to sensitive data. This could include vulnerabilities in your people, physical, network, or software environments. In simple terms, your attack surface is all the gaps in your security controls that could be exploited or avoided by an attacker.
This new world is putting a strain on organizations’ digital security defenses. First, malicious actors are increasingly leveraging coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) as a theme to target organizations and to prey upon the fears of their employees. Our weekly COVID-19 scam roundups have made this reality clear. Second, organizations are working to mitigate the risks associated with suddenly having a large remote workforce.
In an earlier blog, Collaboration in the Modern Biotech Era, we explored the scope, dynamics, and complexity of collaboration in modern biotech and how “…these external partnerships have made the life sciences industry more distributed, networked, and collaborative than ever before.” But data security, integrity, structure, and storage present a number of concerns that need to be addressed to strengthen your GxP compliance envelope when working with external partners.
We all know about hacking and hackers, but what about hacktivism and hacktivists? In this article, we will discuss what hacktivism is and how it can affect your organization. Hackers and the act of hacking found their way into mainstream long ago, with the help of high budget films and our increasing use of technology in almost every aspect of our lives. That is why almost everyone knows what hacking is and who a hacker is.
Assessing the cybersecurity risk posed by third-party vendors and service providers is time-consuming, operationally complex, and often riddled with errors. You need to keep track of requests you send out, chase up vendors who haven't answered, and ensure that when they do they answer in a timely and accurate manner.
The Cyber Security Body of Knowledge project or CyBOK is a collaborative initiative mobilised in 2017 with an aspiration to “codify the foundational and generally recognized knowledge on Cyber Security.” Version 1.0 of the published output of this consultative exercise was quietly released last year and then more publicly launched in January 2020. Yet, this free and information-packed publication does not appear to have captured the attention it perhaps deserves across the wider industry.
Enterprise data comprising business, operations and assets information, resides in different forms and in different places. While the data is distributed they carry important relationship insights which when leveraged can accelerate and improve decision making to drive the outcomes. This is one of the key challenges that analytics solutions, like AIOps, need to address.
As we head into Q3 of 2020, life is looking quite different for all of us around the world. With many governments beginning to implement plans to ease restrictions, economies are expected to slowly regain their footing. Even as brick and mortar businesses around the world gradually re-open, we will continue to see a trend towards contactless payments, digital banking, online orders and e-commerce.
If your organization offers or needs cyber security solutions, you must have heard of the Advanced Encryption Standard before. In this article, we will take a closer look at AES and how it can be beneficial for your organization. The Advanced Encryption Standard (also known as Rijndael) is one of the most popular global encryption standards, that is why its acronym AES keeps coming up in almost every discussion related to cyber security.
