The start of classroom and online instruction at Hartford Public Schools in Connecticut was canceled Tuesday as a result of a ransomware attack - the latest in a series of online attacks, including distributed denial-of-service disruptions, that have interrupted some schools' return to teaching this fall.
Effective response measures prevent minor security incidents from becoming major data breaches. Organizations can limit the impact of any given event if attacks are stopped early. Unfortunately, incident response (IR) teams charged with handling security alerts and investigating incidents are overwhelmed and...
Hackers will always find novel ways to bypass your security protocols, and fighting cybercrime has become less about prevention and more about stemming the bleeding.
Ideally, if you can spot these indicators of attack, you can transform your organization's approach to data protection from reactive to...
Google "mainframe security breach" and your browser will return some 168,000 entries. The same search for "Linux security breach" and "Windows security breach" yields 1.1 million and 3.05 million entries respectively.
Now consider this: Seventy percent of the business and transactional systems around the world run on...
In today's dynamic cyber world, third-party security is necessary but can be challenging to implement. How did a leading investment firm succeed in creating a robust and efficient third-party security process?
In this exclusive webinar, CAPTRUST IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance leader Jon Atchison will discuss the...
API attacks are on the rise, and Gartner predicts that APIs will be the top threat vector by 2022. Roey Eliyahu, CEO of Salt Security, discusses the trend and how to build a more effective API security strategy.
APIs are increasingly being used to power new customer facing applications, connect with partners and drive microservices environments, but they also constantly expose and exchange sensitive data, making them an increasing target for attackers.
As with all things security there is no silver bullet to protect you...
At the core of cybersecurity, every leader has just one ultimate question: 'Have we been compromised?" And yet that remains the most difficult question to answer with certainty, says Ricardo Villadiego, CEO of Lumu Technologies.
In a video interview with Information Security Media Group at RSA 2020, Villadiego also...
The need for speed is at the heart of why business implement digital transformation strategies. Security professionals charged with protecting digital assets feel the pressure to keep up with the speed of business, but moving fast introduces challenges and uncertainties about where attacks/vulnerabilities are hiding...
Migrating computing resources to cloud environments opens up new attack surfaces previously unknown in the world of premise-based data centers. As a result, cloud-native data breaches frequently have different characteristics and follow a different progression than physical data breaches.
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Over the last few years, cyber-attacks on Operational Technology (OT) have increased rapidly in frequency and scale. The cyber-threat to critical infrastructure and other key operational systems is now front and center of
national security concerns. There is a new frontline in cyber defense where protecting against...
The threat and impact of Ransomware continues to be felt among business enterprises and consumers around the world. Global Criminal Organizations target known vulnerabilities of businesses, state/local & city governments and unprepared consumers. The financial costs attached to prevention, response and remediation...
In this time of unprecedented change, distributed computing environments are increasing. IT teams need to support a newly distributed workforce and digital processes with a shrinking budget.
This ESG research brief explains how to improve network visibility across all environments without increasing staff or tools....
Logging tools can be unnecessarily complex. Having a simplified interface that is both scalable and uncompromising can help sort through every day traffic, and draw attention to problems in real-time.
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