Securing critical infrastructure with the carrot and stick

News August 23, 2023

Securing critical infrastructure with the carrot and stick

4 min read - It wasn’t long ago that cybersecurity was a fringe topic of interest. Now, headline-making breaches impact large numbers of everyday citizens. Entire cities find themselves under cyberattack. In a short time, cyber has taken an important place in the national…

News August 16, 2023

650,000 cyber jobs are now vacant: How to tackle the risk

4 min read - How far is the United States behind in filing cybersecurity jobs? As per Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., Chairman of the HHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee, overseas adversaries have a workforce advantage over FBI cyber personnel of 50 to one.…

News August 9, 2023

Will data backups save you from ransomware? Think again

4 min read - Backups are an essential part of any solid anti-ransomware strategy. In fact, research shows that the median recovery cost for ransomware victims that used backups is half the cost incurred by those that paid the ransom. But not all data…

News August 2, 2023

Should you worry about state-sponsored attacks? Maybe not.

4 min read - More than ever, state-sponsored cyber threats worry security professionals. In fact, nation-state activity alerts increased against critical infrastructure from 20% to 40% from 2021 to 2022, according to a recent Microsoft Digital Defense Report. With the advent of the hybrid…

News July 26, 2023

New report names attack surface management leaders

4 min read - Cloud adoption, digital transformation and the remote work explosion have widened nearly every company’s digital footprint and attack surface. Today’s enterprise is more distributed and more dynamic than ever — and new assets connect to a company’s network daily. According…

News July 19, 2023

The MOVEit breach impact and fallout: How can you respond?

4 min read - The MOVEit breach could be the most devastating exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability ever, and the effects continue to ripple across the globe. The widely used file-transfer program’s vulnerability has led to new victims coming forward weekly. Recently, the New…

News July 12, 2023

Lessons learned from the Dallas ransomware attack

4 min read - Ransomware groups have attacked at least 34 local governments in the U.S. this year so far. Nearly 60% of these incidents involved stolen data during the attacks. One of the latest victims was Dallas, a city of almost 1.3 million…

News June 28, 2023

Spot fake extortion attacks without wasting time and money

4 min read - Ransomware attacks — the scourge of businesses, schools, hospitals and other organizations — follow a familiar pattern. Shady criminals contact an organization, telling them their company or customer data has been breached, encrypted and/or exfiltrated. Pay us money, or we’ll…

News June 26, 2023

High-impact attacks on critical infrastructure climb 140%

4 min read - Prior to the pandemic, cyber-sabotage attacks on manufacturing plants were non-existent. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. As per a recent report, attacks that led to physical consequences in process manufacturing, discrete manufacturing and critical industrial infrastructures impacted over 150…

News June 21, 2023

AI assistance cuts alert triage times in half

4 min read - Clearly, ChatGPT has placed artificial intelligence on everyone’s radar these days. But AI in mainstream business applications has been around for decades. In cybersecurity, AI can be used for data augmentation and attack simulation. It can also help detect anomalies…