Security

Organizations across the country are on edge today after a flurry of phony bomb threats hit several public entities Thursday, such as universities, schools and news outlets, among others. The attackers distributed malicious emails claiming to have placed some type of explosive materials in the recip…

The increasing popularity of traditional cloud computing technologies such as server-less, on-demand compute and containerized environments has made technologies like Kubernetes part of our daily vernacular as it relates to running our applications and workloads. Kubernetes solves many of the proble…

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have been affected by Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams and those who don’t know they have been hit with BEC. It’s happening all the time, in your company, right now. People are getting emails that look official, from a realistic company ema…

This is because the endpoint is, well, the end. That is where data resides; where individuals organize, communicate, and conduct nearly all activities of their lives; and is often considered the crown-jewel of your organization by the bad-guys. I’ve heard some people call the endpoint the new perime…

One of, if not the, most prominent motivators for threat actors is money. Whether it’s botnet owners renting out their services for DDoS attacks, tech support scammers cold-calling people to convince them there are problems with their computers, or point-of-sale Trojan horses siphoning off credit ca…

Has your organization initiated a risk assessment and created a threat model that would have covered some of the following incidents over the last two years? The local branch of a shipping company updates the accounting application that is dominant in their region. With the updated application, they…

Messaging applications have been around since the inception of the internet. But recently, due to the increased awareness around mass surveillance in some countries, more users are installing end-to-end encrypted apps dubbed “secure instant messaging applications.” These apps claim to en…

For the myriad ways that an endpoint could be exploited, there’s just no way that a single technology will provide comprehensive protection. Without the visibility of your entire threat landscape and without the control to detect, block, and remediate an attack, you’re at an unfair disadvantage in p…

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has approved the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Cyber Ops certification program for anyone who works in a Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP) analyst or incident responder role. Cybersecurity provides the critical foundation organizations require to…