The events of Friday the 19th 2024 had a profound impact on organizations around the globe. I suppose a widespread global IT outage has a way of clarifying the mind—and IT leaders are recognizing that resilience is crucial for maintaining operations for their consumers, customers, staff, partners, and shareholders. But much of the post-mortem analysis seems to be misunderstanding key lessons from the outage.

When an incident occurs — be it ransomware, a vulnerability exploit, or another kind of sophisticated attack — robust incident response can be the difference between quick remediation or costly, extended down time.

As we continue our Summer School blog series, let's focus on a vital aspect of modern application security: the relationship between API posture governance, API security, and the constantly changing regulatory compliance landscape. In today's interconnected world, where APIs are crucial for digital interactions, organizations are challenged with securing their APIs while complying with complex regulations designed to protect sensitive data and critical infrastructure.

If you answer a spam call, you might start receiving more spam and scam calls, become a victim of SIM card swapping or get your phone number spoofed. Based on Truecaller’s findings, from July 2023 to July 2024, Americans collectively spent approximately 234,000,000 hours answering spam calls. While not every spam call is intended to deceive you like a scam call, receiving unwanted phone calls from persistent telemarketers can quickly become annoying.

The analyst firm Frost & Sullivan has recognized Trustwave with the dual honors of being positioned as the Innovation leader in its 2024 Managed Security Services (MSS) Radar, Americas, and 2024 MSS Radar, Europe, the second time Frost & Sullivan has recognized Trustwave as such in the Americas.

BlueVoyant’s Threat Fusion Cell (TFC) uncovered a focused campaign targeting the advanced manufacturing sector. This campaign aims to steal Microsoft credentials, by spoofing Microsoft’s login page, to phish for potentially compromising sensitive information.

As cyber threats continue to grow more sophisticated, the demand for dynamic, scalable security solutions has led to the increasing adoption of Security Operations Center as a Service (SOC as a Service, or SOCaaS). The SOC as a Service model offers a significantly more cost-effective alternative for organizations without the resources to establish full-scale, in-house security operations centers (SOCs).

From ransomware attacks to data breaches, the threats lurking within supply chains are more pervasive than you might realize. Many security teams aren’t aware of the various supply chain cyber risks lurking within their network, most of which are difficult to detect, manage, and mitigate. Let’s explore how to achieve a more secure and resilient supply chain.