Dissecting The SolarWinds Hack For Greater Insights With A Cybersecurity Evangelist
Bottom Line: Cyberattacks enter a new era of lethal impact when threat actors are sophisticated enough to compromise SolarWind’s software supply chain with infected binary code while mimicking legitimate protocol traffic to avoid detection. To gain greater insights into the SolarWinds breach, its implications on cybersecurity strategy in the future and what steps enterprises need […]
5 Ways Machine Learning Can Thwart Phishing Attacks
Global mobile phishing attempts surged by 37% amid shift to work-from-home for the thousands of businesses needing to adhere to shelter-in-place directives. According to Verizon, over 90% of breaches start with a phishing attack and with more than 60% of emails being read on mobile, mobile phishing is one of the fastest-growing threat categories in […]
Why Security Needs To Be Integral To DevOps
Bottom Line: DevOps and security teams need to leave one-time gating inspections in the past and pursue a more collaborative real-time framework to achieve their shared compliance, security and time-to-market goals. Shorter product lifecycles the need to out-innovate competitors and exceed customer expectations with each new release are a few of the many reasons why […]
5 Mistakes That Threaten Infrastructure Cybersecurity And Resilience
Bottom line: With many IT budgets under scrutiny, cybersecurity teams are expected to do more with less, prioritizing spending that delivers the greatest ROI while avoiding the top five mistakes that threaten their infrastructures. In a rush to reduce budgets and spending, cybersecurity teams and the CISOs that lead them need to avoid the mistakes […]
How To Build A Business Case For Endpoint Security
Bottom Line: Endpoint security business cases do much more than just quantify costs and benefits; they uncover gaps in endpoint and cyber protection that need urgent attention to avert a breach. Bad actors and hackers prefer to attack threat surfaces that are isolated, vulnerable with out-of-date security patches, yet integrated into a corporate network to […]
Protecting Privileged Identities In A Post-COVID-19 World
Bottom Line: Every organization needs to digitally reinvent their business, starting at the system level to safely sell and serve customers with minimal physical interaction. The hard reset every business is going through creates a strong sense of urgency to increase the agility, speed, and scale of selling, as well as customer service […]
Machines Protecting Themselves Is The Future Of Cybersecurity
Bottom Line: Existing approaches to securing IT infrastructure are proving unreliable as social engineering and breach attempts succeed in misdirecting human responses to cyber threats, accentuating the need for machines to protect themselves. Any nations’ digital infrastructure and the businesses it supports are its most vital technology resources, as the COVID-19 pandemic makes clear. Cybercriminal […]
Why Your Biometrics Are Your Best Password
Bottom Line: Biometrics are proving to be better than passwords because they’re easier to use, provide greater privacy and security, and are gaining standardization across a broad base of mobile, desktop, and server devices that users rely on to access online services. In keeping with the theme of this year’s RSA Conference of Human Element, […]
How To Excel At Secured Cloud Migrations With A Shared Responsibility Model
60% of security and IT professionals state that security is the leading challenge with cloud migrations, despite not being clear about who is responsible for securing cloud environments. 71% understand that controlling privileged access to cloud service administrative accounts is a critical concern, yet only 53% cite secure access to cloud workloads as a key […]
7 Signs It’s Time To Get Focused On Zero Trust
When an experienced hacker can gain access to a company’s accounting and financial systems in 7 minutes or less after obtaining privileged access credentials, according to Ponemon, it’s time to get focused on Zero Trust Security. 2019 is on its way to being a record year for ransomware attacks, which grew 118% in Q1 of […]
