Trustwave was awarded a pair of honors from the industry analyst firm ISG, being named a Leader in the US for Managed Security Services – SOC (Midmarket) and as a Rising Star in the UK for Managed Security Services – SOC (Midmarket) in ISG’s 2024 Provider Lens Quadrant Reports for these regions. This is the second consecutive year Trustwave was named a Leader in MSS for the US (Midmarket).

New tools appear in ongoing social engineering campaign, Mad Liberator ransomware targets AnyDesk users, and Bitdefender explores the evolving cybercriminal underground.

You may trust the people you work and partner with, but you never know how they really behave and handle your sensitive data within your organization’s network. Each user in your IT infrastructure brings their own security risks. Tracking user activity helps mitigate those risks and enhance your organization’s security. This article will show you how to set up an efficient user activity monitoring (UAM) process with Ekran System.

At a high level, security leaders need tools that: a) Efficiently detect and respond to threats. b) Can be managed sustainably. c) Deploy quickly and scale with their organisation. d) Are cost-effective. Large SOCs in a handful of enterprises could do this by deploying point solutions and hiring experts to manage them. For everyone else, is there a more efficient way to deliver on these capabilities than a consolidated cybersecurity platform? If you’ve found one, stop reading now.

The education sector proved to be a key target for threat actors in Q2 2024, particularly for ransomware groups. FOG ransomware was a significant threat to the sector this quarter, with clear seasonal cycles in incidents impacting educational institutions, possibly due to perceived reduction in IT staffing around the summer months or the belief that schools may be more likely to pay a ransom during peak periods.

Last month, Cyentia and First.org published the inaugural Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) performance report. The report goes beyond just assessing the EPSS predictive scoring model. It looks at historical vulnerability data and published CVEs, as well as provides comparisons to the other popular scoring models: CVSS and CISA-KEV.