Incident Response February 27, 2023

How Breached Companies Become the Face of Change

4 min read - I’ve always told my kids that everyone makes mistakes. What really matters is how you handle them and that you learn from what happened. SolarWinds followed the same thinking in how it handled its 2020 breach. Not only did the…

News January 16, 2023

Third-Party Risk Contributes to Healthcare Data Breaches

4 min read - Since 2009, the number of individuals affected by health data breaches in the U.S. has exceeded the country’s population of 331.9 million. As per federal statistics, this means many people have been victims of more than one incident. Unfortunately, the…

Retail December 16, 2022

5 Ways to Improve Holiday Retail and Wholesale Cybersecurity

4 min read - It’s the most wonderful time of the year for retailers and wholesalers since the holidays help boost year-end profits. The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts 2022 holiday sales will come in 6% to 8% higher than in 2021. But rising…

CISO December 2, 2022

Who Carries the Weight of a Cyberattack?

3 min read - Almost immediately after a company discovers a data breach, the finger-pointing begins. Who is to blame? Most often, it is the chief information security officer (CISO) or chief security officer (CSO) because protecting the network infrastructure is their job. Heck,…

News November 30, 2022

Abuse of Privilege Enabled Long-Term DIB Organization Hack

2 min read - From November 2021 through January 2022, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) responded to an advanced cyberattack on a Defense Industrial Base (DIB) organization’s enterprise network. During that time frame, advanced persistent threat (APT) adversaries used an open-source toolkit…

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…

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…

Zero Trust September 21, 2022

Companies Without Zero Trust Could Lose $1M More During a Data Breach

3 min read - In recent years, the mindset for cybersecurity has shifted. It isn’t a matter of if a company has a breach, but rather when a company has a breach. With the increase in cybersecurity incidents, most if not all companies will be…

Data Protection September 14, 2022

What Kind of Data Costs Most in a Breach?

4 min read - Today’s most valuable currency is data. Breaches, information operations, analytics and behavior recognition are all driven by data and the desire to possess it, regardless of what those who possess it want to do with it. We set out to…

Data Protection August 19, 2022

How EDR Security Supports Defenders in a Data Breach

4 min read - The cost of a data breach has reached an all-time high. It averaged $4.35 million in 2022, according to the newly published IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report. What’s more, 83% of organizations have faced more than one data…