How to Create an IAM Strategy It is very common for employees to connect to a company’s network using their own devices. On the positive side, this enables employees to work from anywhere, but these devices are often unsecured. Hackers can easily compromise these devices, steal user identities and passwords, and break into company networks. Ensuring network [...]
Investing in security is expensive, and it’s often tempting to focus first on your current profitability. But not investing in security costs organizations even more. What is the takeaway concerning security vs short-term profitability? If you fail to implement a robust long-term, scalable security infrastructure in your environments from the start, then you run the risk of suffering [...]
It’s expected that, when you purchase new hardware, the machine will come with antivirus software already installed. But this “complimentary” inclusion has the tendency to lull some end users into a false sense of security, leading them to believe that they don’t need to implement additional protection. Protecting your critical data should go well beyond relying on baseline, [...]
What is the Kill Chain? Cyber-attackers executing advanced threats against organizations utilize what’s known as the cyber kill chain. The kill chain is the “high-level framework or workflow that advanced threat actors employ in their efforts to compromise the target,” according to Dell SecureWorks. “Actors behind advanced threats have a toolbox of exploit techniques at their disposal,” says [...]
The U.S. Senate recently passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a bill that would increase cyberthreat information sharing between the government and the private sector. CISA requires the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice to develop procedures to promote the timely sharing of classified and [...]
Cybercriminals today are utilizing increasingly complex techniques to infiltrate corporate networks—while evading detection—in an effort to steal intellectual property and other sensitive information. Knowing the techniques cyber-attackers use and how to defend against them is paramount to an organization’s success in disrupting the cyber-attack kill chain. The Onslaught of Malware Attackers are constantly bombarding networks with malware in [...]
