Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

2022 was another record-breaking year for the Snyk platform. Helping an ever-growing number of customers find and fix issues across all the components making up their applications, the Snyk platform enabled over 2,500 customers during 2022 to import over 6.7 million projects, execute over 3 billion tests, and fix over 5 million issues!

The world of cybersecurity is extremely diligent. In a terrain that is ever-evolving, security experts need to combat a growing population of threat actors by deploying increasingly cultivated tools and techniques. Today, with enterprises functioning in an atmosphere that is more challenging than ever, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) play a vital role. As threats become more critical across the board, an Intrusion Detection System can save your business.

The focus on resilience is changing the role of security leaders in organizations today and will continue to do so in 2023. 2022 saw a lot of disruption in businesses, especially with rising cybercrime incidents. Cyber threats will only continue to grow and multiply due to the ongoing convergence of data, changing the discipline of cybersecurity altogether.

Devices: Prevent Users From Installing Printer Drivers, as the name suggests, is a security setting that prohibits unauthorized printer usage on specific devices. Once the setting is configured, the types and number of printers used on specific devices will be confined to the approved ones. The main purpose of limiting printer drivers’ installation and usage on workstations is to prevent people from printing unnecessary stuff, which would increase the cost of business operations.

Penetration testing is a booming market due to the unquenchable and growing need for continuous testing of security that is deployed for various assets like web applications, networks, mobile applications, and cloud environments.

CREST or Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers is a non-profit membership body that was established in 2006 as a response to the need for more regulated, standardized cybersecurity services.

MITRE ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) is a comprehensive knowledge base of tactics, techniques and procedures that adversaries use to conduct cyber-attacks. The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations.

In what may be the largest Twitter data breach attack to date, the personal data of over 400 million users was stolen from the social media giant’s grasp and put up for sale on the dark net on the day after Christmas. This attack couldn’t have happened at a worse time for the company, as the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced an investigation into an earlier Twitter data leak in November 2022 that had affected over 5.4 million users.