Due to the increasing number of cyberattacks, particularly zero days, organizations are scrambling to obtain the best security services available. While even the smallest organization might feel that implementing Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) will keep its data secure, a targeted attack from a nefarious threat actor could lure an employee into clicking and opening a malicious document.
Operational Technology (OT) security has been thrown into the spotlight in the wake of several recent high-profile supply chain attacks targeting critical infrastructure. Security incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline attack have re-established the critical significance of Operational Technology Security, especially for the global power and energy sector.
Trustwave has been named as a Leader the IDC MarketScape: Asia/Pacific Managed Security Services 2022 Vendor Assessment (doc #AP4910122e, October 2022). According to the IDC MarketScape, “Trustwave has been aggressively working with enterprises and midmarket customers to offer effective MDR services that are easy and simple to implement with affordable pricing options.”
Pro-Russian threat actor group Killnet claims to have launched DDoS attacks against Starlink and the United States’ government website whitehouse.gov. Starlink is a satellite internet service company operated by SpaceX. In 2019, SpaceX began launching Starlink satellites, and as of September 2022 is reported to have launched more than 3,000 satellites into low-Earth orbit (LEO).
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.
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.
When it comes to security in AWS, there is the shared responsibility model for AWS services, which is divided into AWS responsibility ‘security of the cloud’ and customer responsibility ‘security in the cloud’. For more detail on this please check the shared-responsibility-model. Figure 1: AWS Shared Responsibility Model Source: shared-responsibility-model.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is one of several “gold level” standards used by public and private organizations as the basis for their cybersecurity protocols. It is also the benchmark utilized by Trustwave to protect our clients. NIST rolled out the CSF in 2014 as a set of guidelines for mitigating organizational cybersecurity risks.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) Centre for Cybersecurity will host its annual meeting focusing on cybersecurity from November 15-16 in Geneva, Switzerland. Among the primary themes for the 2022 event is cyber resilience, with a focus on organizations developing the proper leadership and cooperation to deal with the growing threat landscape.
