Unless you’ve been avoiding your inbox like a cybercriminal avoids sunlight, you’ve probably seen something like this before: That right there is a classic example of a phishing email. Most security-aware individuals can spot a phishing email from a mile away. In the past, it used to be the misspellings, such as in this email, that gave it away. Now, misspellings and poor grammar aren’t ideal indicators of phishing attempts.
The HECVAT (Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit) was developed by the Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) as an initiative to help higher education institutions better protect their data, prevent the risk of data breaches, and measure the cyber risk of third-party solution providers.
Threat actors operate by an ironclad rule: If it’s important to businesses, it’s important to them. And they certainly understand the crucial business role of applications. Applications are now the number one attack vector, while software supply chain attacks increased 650 percent in a year. Clearly, if you don’t already have a modern application security program, you need to build one. But how do you make sure that your program will be effective?
