Risk Management May 19, 2023

Educating your board of directors on cybersecurity

4 min read - Many, if not the majority of, big decisions at organizations come from the boardroom. Typically, the board of directors focuses on driving the direction of the company. Because most boards approve yearly budgets, they have significant oversight of resources and…

Intelligence & Analytics December 22, 2022

What can we learn from recent cyber history?

4 min read - The Center for Strategic and International Studies compiled a list of significant cyber incidents dating back to 2003. Compiling attacks on government agencies, defense and high-tech companies or economic crimes with losses of more than a million dollars, this list…

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…

Government August 29, 2022

How cybersecurity policy has changed since the SolarWinds attack

3 min read - Major cyberattacks since 2019 jolted the U.S. government and software industry into action. The succeeding years have seen executive orders, new funding, two summits and a newfound resolve. Because of those attacks, the federal government aims to fix the open-source…

Government July 25, 2022

U.S. cybersecurity policy has changed since the Colonial Pipeline attack

3 min read - More than a year ago, a ransomware attack made the news across the nation. The Colonial Pipeline Company announced on May 7, 2021, that the DarkSide Ransomware-as-a-Service group, based in eastern Europe, had hit it. The FBI has since confirmed…

Risk Management July 21, 2022

20 years ago in cybersecurity: Massive DDoS attack hits the roots of the internet

3 min read - It was considered the “largest ever” internet attack in 2002. This distributed denial of service attack hit seven of the 13 servers at the top of the internet’s domain name system hierarchy. Now, 20 years later, its origins remain mysterious,…

Threat Hunting July 15, 2022

What cybersecurity teams can learn from the US Cyber Command’s ‘hunt forward’

4 min read - After decades of playing defense, the United States government went on the offense in the past few years against global state-sponsored cyber attackers. U.S. Cyber Command conducted “hunt forward” operations recently in 16 countries, including in Ukraine, as part of…

Risk Management May 12, 2022

62% of surveyed organizations hit by supply chain attacks in 2021

4 min read - You’ve heard more about the supply chain in the past two years than you ever expected, or likely wanted. But, as a cybersecurity professional, you now have even more reason to pay attention besides not being able to get your…