CISO November 23, 2022

Emotional Blowback: Dealing With Post-Incident Stress

4 min read - Cyberattacks are on the rise as adversaries find new ways of creating chaos and increasing profits. Attacks evolve constantly and often involve real-world consequences. The growing criminal Software-as-a-Service enterprise puts ready-made tools in the hands of threat actors who can…

Risk Management November 22, 2022

Why Operational Technology Security Cannot Be Avoided

8 min read - Operational technology (OT) includes any hardware and software that directly monitors and controls industrial equipment and all its assets, processes and events to detect or initiate a change. Yet despite occupying a critical role in a large number of essential…

Risk Management November 14, 2022

How the DNSChanger Shutdown Changed Cybersecurity

3 min read - On the morning of July 9, 2012, the world braced for an “internet doomsday”: a full-scale crash of the global internet. Except it didn’t happen. And that non-event represented the culmination of a long and successful coordinated action taken between…

Data Protection November 8, 2022

Millions Lost in Minutes — Mitigating Public-Facing Attacks

4 min read - In recent years, many high-profile companies have suffered destructive cybersecurity breaches. These public-facing assaults cost organizations millions of dollars in minutes, from stock prices to media partnerships. Fast Company, Rockstar, Uber, Apple and more have all been victims of these…

Intelligence & Analytics November 3, 2022

Overcoming Distrust in Information Sharing: What More is There to Do?

4 min read - As cyber threats increase in frequency and intensity worldwide, it has never been more crucial for governments and private organizations to work together to identify, analyze and combat attacks. Yet while the federal government has strongly supported this model of…

Endpoint October 18, 2022

Threat Management and Unified Endpoint Management

4 min read - The worst of the pandemic may be behind us, but we continue to be impacted by it. School-aged kids are trying to catch up academically and socially after two years of disruption. Air travel is a mess. And all businesses…

Data Protection October 13, 2022

How Do Data Breaches Impact Economic Instability?

4 min read - Geopolitical conflict, inflation, job market pressure, rising debt — we’ve been hearing about economic headwinds for a while now. Could data breaches have anything to do with this? According to a recent IBM report, the average cost of a data…

News October 12, 2022

Ransomware Attackers Target U.S. Colleges and Universities

2 min read - U.S. colleges and universities are on high alert for cyberattacks. The FBI issued a warning for higher education in March 2021. Even with universities taking steps, several found themselves victims of BlackCat, also known as the ALPHV group. A Wave…

Government October 11, 2022

How the US Government is Fighting Back Against Ransomware

6 min read - As ransomware-related payments surged toward $600 million in the first half of 2021, the U.S. government knew it needed to do more to fight back against cyber criminals. For many years, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had…

Risk Management October 10, 2022

What You Should Know About the Honda Key Fob Vulnerability

3 min read - As a cybersecurity writer, I’m more aware than the average person of the security risks with any connected device. So when I sat in my new car for the first time and saw all the different ways it linked to…