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Balancing Innovation and Security: How Offensive Security Can Help Navigate the Tech Industry's Dual Challenges

Two of the greatest threats facing technology-focused organizations are their often-quick adoption of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), without taking security measures into consideration and a very high reliance on third-party vendors to operate their businesses.

Cyberattack at Sisense Puts Critical Infrastructure on Alert

The cybersecurity community woke up on Thursday to news of a cyberattack on Sisense, a major business analytics software company. It’s thought that the breach may have exposed hundreds of Sisense’s customers to a supply chain attack and provided the attacker with a door into the company’s customer networks.

Equivalency: The Latest FedRamp Memo From DoD

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has been around for nearly 15 years. In that time, it changed and was updated periodically to keep up with the times. While changes are occasionally made to the underlying security frameworks like FedRAMP, CMMC and the NIST documentation that reviews each security control, there is also communication directly from the Department of Defense and other organizations to issue additional guidance.

DevOps Security Challenges and Best Practices

Some of the challenges when adopting DevOps security, also known as DevSecOps, are placing too much focus on tools rather than processes, cultural resistance, weak access controls and poor secrets management. While implementing DevOps security comes with its challenges, there are several best practices organizations can follow to make its implementation as effective and seamless as possible, including proper change management, combating secrets sprawl and following the principle of least privilege.

Three Ways To Remove Complexity in TDIR

Gartner identified security technology convergence as one of the key trends both in 2022 and 2023 as a necessity to remove complexity in the industry. Especially for Threat Detection and Incident Response (TDIR), simplification continues to resonate with cyber teams overwhelmed by too many tools and the continuous cutting and pasting from one tool to another.

The Future of Cybersecurity: Leveraging Breach and Attack Simulation for Proactive Defense

The digital landscape is no longer a frontier; it's a full-fledged battlefield. As organizations become increasingly reliant on interconnected technologies, their attack surface expands exponentially. Firewalls and antivirus software, the traditional defense lines, are akin to medieval fortifications in the face of modern artillery. To survive in this ever-evolving warzone, organizations need a proactive approach, a way to anticipate and counter threats before they inflict damage. Enter Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), a transformative tool poised to revolutionize the future of cybersecurity.

The Top 18 Healthcare Industry Cyber Attacks of the Past Decade

10.93 million dollars USD. That’s the average cost of a healthcare breach in the U.S. It’s an alarming number that’s only continued to climb, increasing by over 53% in the past three years, according to IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report. In fact, the healthcare industry has had the highest average cost of a breach for 13 years running. It’s not just the costs that are climbing, either.

The Security Risks of Microsoft Bing AI Chat at this Time

AI has long since been an intriguing topic for every tech-savvy person, and the concept of AI chatbots is not entirely new. In 2023, AI chatbots will be all the world can talk about, especially after the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI. Still, there was a past when AI chatbots, specifically Bing’s AI chatbot, Sydney, managed to wreak havoc over the internet and had to be forcefully shut down.

5 Key Steps on How to Perform a Cybersecurity Risk Assessment

Assessing cybersecurity risks is critical for identifying vulnerabilities in your systems that can potentially lead to data breaches, financial loss, reputation damage, legal liabilities, and other negative consequences. Knowing your weaknesses will help you take proactive measures to protect your sensitive information, comply with relevant regulations, and ensure business continuity.

Embracing Two-Factor Authentication for Enhanced Account Protection

Let’s start the second quarter of the year with boosting our security posture by adopting two-factor authentication methods on our accounts to make them more secure. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is an identity and access management security method that requires two forms of identification to access resources and data.