Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

It is often said that the human factor is the most important part of cybersecurity. In many ways this is true. Cybersecurity tech plays a vital role in everything from blocking dangerous traffic and spotting suspicious activity on an account, to offering the kind of 24/7 surveillance that simply isn't practical (or possible) for humans to carry out themselves. But ultimately, this is only a part of cybersecurity.

When it comes to securing your network from intrusion or attacks, one of the most commonly followed security measures is to regularly scan your network ports and close all open ports. This is because open ports can expose your network to several security vulnerabilities. To tackle the risks introduced by open ports, network admins rely on port scanners. Port scanners help you identify, inspect, and analyze network ports, and aid in reducing your network's attack surface by closing open ports. This makes port scanners an indispensable tool to ensure network security. In this post, we discuss what open ports are, their vulnerabilities, and how you can defend your network with port scanners.

How do organizations protect against ransomware? You need a ransomware defense strategy. It's important to find the best ransomware defense strategy that is right for your organization. Here are several facts about ransomware to help protect your organization.

The CrowdStrike Falcon OverWatch™ proactive threat hunting team has uncovered a sophisticated .NET-based post-exploitation framework, dubbed IceApple. Since OverWatch's first detection in late 2021, the framework has been observed in multiple victim environments in geographically distinct locations, with intrusions spanning the technology, academic and government sectors.

Some 90% of security breaches can be avoided by using multi-factor authentication (MFA). Yet most enterprises still rely only on usernames and passwords - and avoid other strong second-factor authentication methods - to make user sign-on both safe and convenient. Our addiction to passwords seems to be a long-standing issue. In order to stay secure, users have to make passwords complicated, only to spend time remembering and then forgetting them, which has resulted in more IT support.

As we previously discussed in the Automating Your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Response blog post, CSPM is a vital component in any environment leveraging cloud services. Whether you are using a single cloud or are in a multi-cloud scenario, the complexity of these cloud platforms is constantly expanding. Staying on top of new changes in policies and functionality to ensure that you are maintaining a secure environment is daunting - and almost impossible to do without automation. No one has the resources to spend on maintaining a large team of cloud specialists who just audit everything that is in use.