The CashApp data breach was caused by a former employee who accessed customer financial reports as an act of revenge against the company after their employment was terminated. According to the April 2, 2022 filing with the Securities Exchange Commission by Block (CashApp’s parent company), the employee required access to the financial reports as part of their daily duties.
HIPAA compliance is regulated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and enforced by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR). In 2013, the final Omnibus rule was enacted, binding business associates - or third-party vendors - to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This modification added another level of compliance complexity to an industry not accustomed to operating in the cybersecurity domain - the healthcare industry.
At its core, Active Directory domain services (AD DS) is a structured data store of objects in the domain controller. It is a directory service from Microsoft for identity management and access control in Windows domain networks. Active Directory can authenticate users, groups, services and computers to protected information. In addition to that, AD DS also helps to implement security policies and permissions. AD DS enforces them for all computers in your network.
Ransomware attacks have become so prevalent in recent years that it’s no longer a matter of “if” your business may be the victim of a ransomware attack, but “when.” In fact, in 2021, 37% of global organizations reported that they were the victim of a ransomware attack. To mitigate the impact and probability of ransomware on your business, you must continuously look for new ways to secure your network and maintain continuous cybersecurity monitoring.
Security of our platform and customer data has always been a core focus at Zenity and a north star that we continue to follow, and today we’re excited to announce that we are now SOC 2 Type II certified. This certification demonstrates Zenity’s commitment to ensuring the security of our systems and the data of our customers and partners.
In a previous post, our team shared our Three Best Practices for Building a High-Performance Graph Database. That was written two years ago, when CrowdStrike Threat Graph® was processing billions of events per day and storing a few petabytes of data. Fast forward to today: CrowdStrike Threat Graph now stores over 40 petabytes of data and handles trillions of events per day while routinely serving upward of 70 million requests per second.
