In today’s world, cyberattacks are commonplace, and countless organizations have had to deal with the fallout of a breach. Luckily, there are many cybersecurity solutions that can help decrease risk, but how do you know if your organization’s security controls will be up to the task?
This is where penetration...
Dragos is currently tracking 3000+ Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) that affect ICS/OT networks. Of those, more than 400 CVEs have at least one publicly available exploit. Public exploits affect every level of an industrial environment, providing adversaries pre-packaged tools capable of infiltrating an...
In today’s modern work environment, desktop virtualization has skyrocketed to the top of the list of IT priorities. Business leaders need to deliver virtual desktops and apps that offer the flexibility to respond to rapidly changing demands without the complexities associated with managing on-premises...
Organizations are moving to the cloud to take advantage of economies of scale, global reach, and to set the foundation for innovation in their business. Yet, despite the obvious benefits, IT leads are facing a number of challenges, such as:
Analyzing which cloud model is best for their business ;...
Merger and acquisition activity picked up in September with BitSight, Tenable and Mastercard, all making deals. Moody's became BitSight's largest shareholder after making a $250 million investment in the company.
In 2020, 16 million COVID-19-related threats, including malicious URLs, spam, and malware were detected, according to a Trend Micro report. At the start of the pandemic, many IT and cybersecurity measures were hastily put into place to deal with the crisis. Today, organizations must take stock of these measures, and...
According to a recent study ,78% of senior executives express lack of confidence in their company’s cybersecurity posture. The study also found, that this eventually prompted 91% of executives to increase 2021 budgets. Most Senior Executives agree that cyber risk is now the most critical category of risk across all...
Key challenges from the recent State of Cybersecurity 2021 report include "integrating risk with maturity and keeping up with industry trends," says Jenai Marinkovic, member of the ISACA Emerging Trends Working Group.
Every 11 seconds an organisation falls victim to a ransomware attack. Criminals target companies of every size and in every industry, using increasingly more sophisticated attacks.
With the right preparation, you can dramatically reduce your organisation’s risk factors and equip yourself to send ransomware...
Following the Colonial Pipeline disruption, Censys examined 11 oil and gas companies operating and based in the United States using its Attack Surface Management (ASM) platform. Censys found a total of 682 risks across the 11 companies, which are broken down further by threat type within this report. This report sheds...
A publicly traded real estate company needed to uncover Internet-facing security risks stemming from both cloud and on-prem assets. With over 50,000 employees, a lean security team, and multiple subsidiaries, the company struggled to comprehensively inventory and quickly patch Internet assets. Their goal was to...
Despite security improvements over the last seven years, the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, needs to better protect the large amounts of personal identifiable data - such as Social Security numbers - that the agency collects, according to an inspector general's audit.
While the U.S. government is making strides in improving the nation's cybersecurity, it needs to do more to protect critical infrastructure from attacks and create public-private partnerships to improve national security, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission notes in a report published Thursday.
The Office of Management and Budget is ordering federal agencies to begin identifying "critical software" that needs protection as part of the effort to fulfill President Biden's cybersecurity executive order. Executive branch agencies then will have a year to implement security measures.
Security teams and risk professionals consistently ensure the effectiveness of their cyber defense mechanism. The ongoing pandemic has intensified their challenges as they now have to ensure cyber resilience for their organizations in a hostile open environment. As organizations looked to quickly adjust to the new...
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