Security Services May 11, 2023

How I Got Started: Offensive Security

3 min read - In the high-stakes world of cybersecurity, offensive security experts play a pivotal role in identifying and mitigating potential threats. These professionals, sometimes referred to as “ethical hackers”, use their skills to probe networks and systems in search of vulnerabilities, ultimately…

CISO October 26, 2022

Charles Henderson’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month Content Roundup

2 min read - In some parts of the world during October, we have Halloween, which conjures the specter of imagined monsters lurking in the dark. Simultaneously, October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which evokes the specter of threats lurking behind our screens. Bombarded with…

Risk Management July 18, 2022

Security Obscurity Versus Ethical Hackers: Who’s Right?

3 min read - Security breaches can lead to damage to a business’s finances, operations and reputation. What many companies might fear most is the latter: damage to their reputation. This may explain why 65% of organizations want to be seen as infallible, as…

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…

Incident Response January 17, 2022

What It Takes to Build the Blue Team of Tomorrow

5 min read - A good defense takes some testing. Ethical hacking involves pitting two teams together for the sake of strengthening digital security defenses. The red team attempts to bypass digital security barriers. By doing so, they reveal both misconceptions and flaws in…

Application Security November 19, 2021

Penetration Testing for Cloud-Based Apps: A Step-by-Step Guide

4 min read - Although cloud providers offer more and more robust security controls, in the end, you’re the one who has to secure your company’s workloads in the cloud. According to the 2019 Cloud Security Report, the top cloud security challenges are data…

Intelligence & Analytics November 10, 2021

Breach and Attack Simulation: Hack Yourself to a More Secure Future

4 min read - Getting breached is the surest way to learn your organization’s cybersecurity vulnerabilities. And that’s why you need to hack yourself before threat actors do. A cyber breach and attack simulation, also called red teaming, is best to understand vulnerabilities in…

Intelligence & Analytics October 15, 2021

When Is an Attack not an Attack? The Story of Red Team Versus Blue Team

6 min read - Cybersecurity experts fill our days with terminology from warfare, including jargon such as red team versus blue team. The concept of ‘red team’ has its origin in wargaming. The red team plays an opposing force and attempts to bypass the…

Cloud Security September 21, 2021

12 Benefits of Hiring a Certified Ethical Hacker

4 min read - You’ve probably heard the phrase “you don’t know what you don’t know”. It’s a stage of learning most people find themselves in at one time or another. When it comes to cybersecurity, hackers succeed by finding the security gaps and…