The abuse and/or misuse of privileged credentials plays a role in almost every cybersecurity breach incident today. With privileged access in hand. an attacker essentially becomes a malicious insider - and that's an alarming scenario for any IT professional, all the way up to the C-level and the Board.
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What's hot on the cybersecurity legal front? For starters, in 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted twice as many alleged state-sponsored attackers than it had ever indicted, says Kimberly Peretti of Alston & Bird.
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses the recent ransomware attack on aluminum giant, Norsk Hydro. Plus, confessions of a former LulzSec and Anonymous hacktivist, and the growing problem of cyber extortion.
Migrating computing resources to cloud environments opens up new attack surfaces previously unknown in the world of premise-based data centers. Cloud workloads are vulnerable to data breaches, account compromises, and resource exploitation.
Read Anatomy of a Cloud-Native Data Breach to follow the dissection of a...
The network is much more than just the sum of its endpoints, and the imperative to secure everything has led to detection and response emerging as a top priority for many organizations, says Chris Morales of Vectra Networks.
application attacks are the top source of breaches today. The 2018 Cybersecurity Insiders Application Security Report reveals that 62% of cybersecurity professionals are at best moderately confident in their organization's application security posture. Not surprisingly, about the same number consider their...
Vera has partnered with UBM to produce the 2019 State of Encryption Research Report. The survey explores the use of encryption and access controls, to understand how organizations currently use these technologies, and to identify IT and security professionals' top priorities in file security.
Watch this webinar to...
Stay Ahead of Phishing Threats This Year
In volume and complexity, phishing attacks are getting worse. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2018 found that over 90% of breaches begin as phishing emails or other social engineering tactics.
To get ahead of the problem, download this eBook on phishing trends...
The digital revolution has given healthcare organizations new tools to increase team efficiency and improve their customer experience. But it's also opened up new vectors that cybercriminals can use to attack. As your attack surface expands to infrastructure that you don't own or control, becomes increasingly...
The coming end-of-support for Windows Server 2008 leaves organizations with few viable options to receive updates beyond the cut-off date of January 14, 2020. Upgrading will be no small feat as roughly 70% of enterprise Windows applications run on Windows Server 2008 or earlier versions*.
Most companies have huge gaps in their cyber defenses, and can be compromised at will by a determined hacker. The industry even has a term for it: Assume Breach.
Join Roger A. Grimes, a 30-year computer consultant, for this webinar where he explores the latest research on what's wrong with current defenses and how...
2018 went down in cybersecurity history as the year of the data breach. While a majority of these breaches were the results of hacking and malware, one in four breaches are the result of unintentional disclosure of data by an employee. This is why most security professionals are aware that it is a matter of when - not...
SWIFT hacks happen when cybercriminals get in between the customer's network and the SWIFT network. There, they can change or reroute messages and even currency, making even one successful SWIFT hack highly lucrative.
However, these cyberattacks can be prevented with a strong security posture and absolute...
The 10th annual IRISSCERT Cyber Crime Conference, to be held Thursday in Dublin, promises to round up crime trends and also offer updates on incident response lessons learned, spam fighting and even cybersecurity essentials for children.
Industry attention has narrowed in on the threat of commonly known IoT devices and their potential safety implications to the home, but there is as much - if not more - to consider when exploring IoT threats in the enterprise.
Research into seven common enterprise IoT devices revealed that their core technologies,...
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