FireEye Breach: What to Know
Who is FireEye? FireEye provides cybersecurity products (endpoint and network) to detect and prevent against advanced threats. A few years ago FireEye bought Mandiant, one of the world’s premier cybersecurity consultancies, particularly in Incident Response. Together, the product and consulting business has had success worldwide and has several government contracts including in the US. What […]
Bringing Security into Compliance
Security teams are already overwhelmed with keeping up with threats and protecting the network and the data that flows within it. Especially when working in a highly regulated industry such as finance, healthcare, or utilities, it can be a real challenge to keep up with all the changes in regulation. What’s wrong with compliance? We […]
The State of the Nation: Incident Report in the U.K.
“Phishing incidents are up 56% between 2019 and 2020, and hardware/software misconfigurations are up 44%.” We are all familiar with the Verizon Data Breach Report: it’s a guidebook on where the cyber world is with incidents globally. While this is an invaluable asset to the industry each part of the world has their own nuances […]
Crafting an Effective Risk Register
Risk is much more than a report shown to the board every quarter. It’s a major point of discussion for any CISO regardless of industry, and not just on the mitigation side. The ability to effectively assess risk is critical for CISOs and a significant part of any program – but it has to be […]
Social Engineering: Training your way around the threat
Why is social engineering one of the most widely discussed topics in security? Because it’s one of the most effective offensive tactics, and an inherently human discussion. It’s a concept that is easily understood because it largely plays on emotion. Whether it be fear, compassion, or anger that is used, we can fundamentally understand why […]
Has COVID-19 affected your cybersecurity budgets?
We ran a survey of cybersecurity professionals on what effect COVID-19 is having on their resources. We found out some interesting facts we would like to share with you. Budgets Over 76% of the respondents said their cybersecurity budgets will increase or that they don’t anticipate them to change. Almost a quarter of them are […]
The Coronavirus Cyber Doc Diagnosis: Work from Home
The COVID-19 scare has more people than ever are working at home. While this isn’t a new trend, it is affecting people on a much more massive scale now in light of the current health frenzy. The giants have taken heed: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft among others have all disseminated their office workers in specific […]
Cyber Defense in Times of Crisis… and After
We all know this pandemic has affected the cyber industry in ways we never could have foreseen. According to VMWare Carbon Black, the attacks on banks and another financial organizations were up 38% between February and March and accounted for 52% of the threat traffic on their cloud. The concerns around the pandemic aren’t just […]
Cyber Geopolitics and COVID-19: What could come next?
The long and short term view has always been a requirement for those working in cybersecurity. Right now, the short term involves securing remote working infrastructures, while also responding to skyrocketing COVID-19 phishing lures. Essentially, fighting fires just to keep the organization going, while staying safe and healthy. However, we cannot forget the long term. […]
From the Front Lines: Cyber Community Insights
Dogs barking. Kids getting set up for online learning. Conference bridge crashing. Spouse or roommate is on the phone next to you. It’s 8 am and you haven’t had your coffee yet. Sound familiar? This is the new reality we are living in under COVID-19. For seasoned remote workers and new ones to this lifestyle […]
