When Uber was breached in September, the hacker remained undetected until they announced their presence within the org via Slack. This incident provides yet another example of Slack being leveraged by an attacker. In this post, we’re going to review some of the ways attackers have used Slack in breaches, why this is happening, and what you can do about it.
Continuing our ongoing series of expert predictions, the following come from Netskope Threat Labs, including what we see on the horizon for software supply chain, phishing, and ransomware.
Evolution of the SOC – From the Dark Ages to Enlightenment, shifting to an agile threat informed cyber defense program How important is the Security Operations Center (SOC) to a business and a security leader's overall success? The answer is a bit cloudier than one would believe, given the length of time the SOC has been part of our security program lexicon.
What a few weeks it has been for Twitter, from the sacking of half its workforce, and the rushed release of a new feature that allows impersonation of people and brands, through to the unintentional lock out of some users with a certain multi-factor authentication (MFA) configuration enabled. Added to this, we have also seen major resignations of key individuals across the Information Security, Privacy and Compliance groups.
The ongoing growth in the adoption of cloud services poses escalating opportunities and risks in equal measure. The increased capacity and scalability of cloud environment lends itself to an accelerated pace and higher volume of software and application development than ever before. This trend brings into play a huge increase in the number of software components and dependencies that developers use in their code bases.
With the high rate of cyberattacks today, the role of a chief information security officer (CISO) has become more important — and much more visible. Businesses have been forced to invest in guarding their infrastructures, networks and sensitive data. This blog post will take a look at the basics of a CISO, as well as the CISO's main tasks and responsibilities.
