Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Cybercrime is one of the biggest challenges that businesses face today. While many small and medium-sized businesses think they are unlikely targets as they are small in size, it is to be noted that any business whether big or small can be easy prey to cyber-attacks if it is not adequately prepared.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. It has been a bit of a hot week here in the UK and it appears some tech couldn’t cope.

There are many critical factors to ensuring an effective cybersecurity program; however, two of the most important are accuracy and timeliness. With limited search capabilities that direct you to insufficient results or extended navigation time to find items of relevance, the cyber risk of your rapidly growing vendor ecosystem is left unmanaged. Think about it like this: when you have two contacts in your phone saved under the same first name, how do you determine which one is the right one to call?

Back in April, our team attended the ATMIA Canada Conference 2022, which focused on what is next for the industry, current trends in cash use, and ATM security. At one of the sessions, the ATM Security Association (ASA) presented their new Crisis & Crime Management Intelligence System – the industry’s first global-scale ATM crime database and intelligence management system for analysis of crime trends.

Microsoft SQL Server is a popular relational database management system created and maintained by Microsoft. It’s effective in numerous use cases: storage and retrieval of data as part of a DBMS, transaction processing and analytics applications. However, there are some essential measures you must take to protect your database from cybercriminals and security breaches, as the default security settings are relatively insufficient to keep your database safe.

A cyber incident can range from a minor power outage to a full-scale cyber attack. No matter the incident scale, having clear guidelines to follow can help organizations create effective and standardized response plans. The SysAdmin, Audit, Network, and Security (SANS) Institute is one of the leading organizations providing cybersecurity training, research, and certification.

One of the lesser-known but extremely important roles the Trustwave Fusion portal, known as the Fusion Security Testing Suite (STS) plays is as a conduit for our clients when running a penetration testing program.