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Password Management is Critical to Your Cybersecurity Strategy

From generating strong passwords to monitoring the security policies and practices of a company, password managers are powerful solutions that defend companies against cyberthreats and improve employee productivity. Continue reading to learn more about why password management is critical to every organization’s cybersecurity strategy.

US National Security Deep Dive Pillars 2 and 3: Dismantle Threats and Shape Market Forces

Last time we looked at The US National Security Strategy Pillar 1: Defend Critical Infrastructure. Today, we are looking at Pillar 2: Disrupt and Dismantle Threat Actors and Pillar 3: Shape Market Forces to Drive Security Resilience. Preventing the attacks in Pillar 1 would not be necessary if the attackers were taken off the board.

Attacking Constrained Delegation to Elevate Access

This article rounds out a series of articles on Kerberos delegation. Before reading it, we suggest making sure you are familiar with both Active Directory delegation and Kerberos delegation, and have read the earlier posts in the series that provide an overview of how resource-based constrained delegation and unconstrained delegation are configured and how they can be abused. This article explains how a constrained delegation attack enables an adversary to gain elevated access to vital services.

Securing Account Credentials to Protect Your Organization

Compromising the credentials of Active Directory accounts remains a primary way for adversaries to gain a foothold in an organization’s IT ecosystem. They use a range of tactics, including credential stuffing, password spraying, phishing and brute-force attacks This blog post details key best practices for effective user credential management. Then it dives into how software can help enforce those best practices and further secure user credentials.

A Comprehensive Guide for the SOC-2 Audit Checklist

The SOC 2 framework helps you identify potential risks to your business and mitigate them with approved controls. To pass a SOC 2 audit, you must first define your audit objectives, determine your audit scope, and undergo a number of preparation steps and assessments. While these steps can be time-consuming, expensive, and arduous, achieving SOC 2 compliance can have huge business benefits for organizations, from improved compliance risk management to more sales opportunities.

Why Pixels/Trackers are Common and Abundant

As part of a detailed study of pixels/trackers, an analysis of over 3,000 websites and over 100,000 associated webpages (using the client-side security scanning feature of Feroot Inspector) found pixels/trackers on 95% of their websites. Each website in the study corresponds to an unique organization (company, non-profit, or government agency). The high 95% reflects the extent of data harvesting that is done by marketing, advertising, and performance platforms today.

Fraudulent Tax Filings Go Out For Harding, Shymanski, and Company Customers

Harding, Shymanski, and Company is a major accounting firm that works with customers providing them with tax help and other financial services. The company recently suffered from a data breach that exposed many of its clients and led to fraudulent tax filings for the 2022 tax year. The company employs more than 142 people and has an approximate annual revenue of $28 million. A large number of individuals were impacted by this very serious data breach.

The 443 Podcast, Ep. 238 - Zero Trust Maturity Model 2.0

This week on #the443podcast, Corey Nachreiner and Marc Laliberte cover two new publications out of CISA. First, we dive into CISA’s guidance to manufacturers and customers on secure-by-design and secure-by-default products. Next, they discuss CISA’s latest Zero Trust Maturity Model, which any organization can use to gauge how far along they are on the ZTA path and where they should focus their efforts next. Finally, we end with some research from Blaze Information Security on a series of vulnerabilities in a play-to-earn blockchain game.

Webinar: Top Security Threats Worldwide: Q4 2022 - 20 April 2023

Join WatchGuard CSO Corey Nachreiner and Sr. Security Analyst Trevor Collins as they discuss key findings from the WatchGuard Threat Lab’s 2022 Q4 Internet Security Report. They’ll cover the latest malware and network attack trends targeting small and midsized enterprises and defensive tips you can take back to your organization to stay ahead of modern threat actor tactics.

Datadog's Security Observability Day 2023

Datadog Cloud Security products offers real-time security monitoring across the stack, leveraging the Datadog Observability platform already used by millions of engineering teams. During this Datadog Security Observability Day we’ve shared how Datadog is making security a team sport, and how our security products help observe, uncover and secure vulnerabilities that matter.