Organizations Struggle Implementing Compliance Requirements Including NIST & Zero Trust Mandates
Over the last year, we’ve seen a literally flood of government legislation and formal guidance concerning cybersecurity best practices. New mandates have been coming or to the cyber community fast and furious, and government agencies and their contractors have had
Two-Thirds of Organizations Were Hit by a Ransomware Attack Last Year
In SpyCloud’s Ransomware Defense Report, its annual survey of CISOs or Chief Information Security Officers and heads of IT security from Canada, the UK, and US they found that that security teams are starting to lose hope that they can
How CASB Solutions are Improving Cloud Security
Cloud access security brokers (CASBs) are on-premises, or cloud-based security policy enforcement points, typically placed between cloud service consumers and their cloud service providers (CSB). The solutions often combine and add enterprise security policies when cloud-based resources are accessed. Further,
Malware: Old Tools; New Tricks
Since the earliest form of a computer virus was created in 1949, malware has certainly come of age. Malware continues to wreak havoc on corporate and government entities and remains a perpetual thorn in the side of vendors and IT
How EDR Solutions are Bolstering Cybersecurity Defenses
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), also referred to as endpoint detection and threat response (EDTR), is an endpoint security solution that continuously monitors end-user devices to detect and respond to cyber threats like ransomware and malware. Coined by the ex-Gartner Analyst
How Does the Cyber Mercenary Business Work?
The Cyber Mercenary Business is Surging, Unfortunately Reuters wrote a report on the booming business of Cyber mercenaries which we found particularly interesting and thought it was well worth sharing. The report discusses in detail, various cyber mercenary hacks which have
Ransomware and Business Email Compromise (BEC) Account for 70% of Breaches
Ransomware and business email compromises (BEC) topped the list of the types of attacks on organizations in the past year, making up 70% of the total number, according to the 2022 Unit 42 Incident Response Report from Unit 42 by
What are the Benefits of SOAR Security Technology?
Choosing the Most Effective Security Technology – SIEM versus SOAR In a previous blog post, Why Organizations Are Moving to Managed Firewall and SIEM Solutions, we addressed not only the benefits of Firewall and SIEM security technologies, but also the challenges.
How to Implement an Effective Vulnerability Management Program
We’ve written considerably on Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Assessments and Patching because they are so critical to preventing attacks. I’ve provided links to several of the most read blog posts we have written on the subject. In this blog post, we’ll
Is an MDR Solution or an MSSP Partnership Better for Your Organization?
In this blog post, we want to analyze the differences between a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution and a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) partnership and how organizations can differentiate between the two and choose which one or both