Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Risk Tolerance vs. Risk Appetite Explained

In organizational risk management, Risk Tolerance and Risk Appetite are two fundamental concepts. These concepts are applied in areas such as business investing, decision making, cybersecurity risk management, and overall finance. While these concepts complement each other, they do have different meanings. A simple distinction is this: And there’s a bit more to it.

The E-Root Incident: The Importance of Securing RDP and SSH Accounts

One of the most notable changes in cybercrime since the beginning of the 21st century has been the maturation of the illegal industry from individual hackers to full-on profitable businesses. E-Root, a global illegal marketplace, was taken down by law enforcement in 2020 but recently made the news as its admin faces 20 years in prison for selling stolen Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and Secure Shell (SSH) accounts.

Building Security Culture Starts with Building Relationships

Code doesn’t write itself and software doesn’t secure itself, as much as the race is on to make that happen. At the beginning and end of everything in software is people and, importantly, people interacting with each other. Having great tools doesn’t matter if no one uses them, and having great policies doesn’t matter if no one enforces them.

Digital Supply-Chain Attacks: Exploits and Statistics

Growing digital connectivity has led to the rise of digital supply-chain attacks. This session will explain, demonstrate, and provide statistics about the complexity of the problem and about attacks that arose due to dependencies on external infrastructures. While there is no simple solution to the problem, we will present a strategy to reduce exposure and create processes to avoid such vulnerabilities.

How Loctax uses Aikido Security to get rid of irrelevant security alerts & false positives

It’s always great news when we hear about a customer’s delight when using Aikido Security. But, we don’t want to keep all the good stuff to ourselves! Let’s focus on Loctax, the first-ever collaborative tax governance platform for global in-house tax teams. Loctax delivers its tax services to companies such as Wise, PedidosYa, Iba, Luxottica, and Trainline.