Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, demand for security analysts is expected to grow by more than 30% over the next decade, far outpacing the average for other roles. That’s good news for those entering or advancing in the field. But with heavy workloads and constant pressure to keep up with evolving threats, professional development can easily fall by the wayside. So how can security analysts stand out to hiring managers — and make sure their career path stays on track?

Credit card and banking information is one of the major targets for data breaches and other cyber attacks. These details are sold on the black market and cost businesses and consumers billions in losses every year. Victims who learn early about stolen information typically take measures to prevent future use, such as canceling cards and changing online passwords. However, data breach notices are easy to miss, and countless active cards remain for sale on the dark web.

A newly identified strain of commodity ransomware named Mamona has emerged in the cybercriminal underground. This threat diverges from typical ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) models by functioning entirely offline, relying on custom-built cryptographic routines and deploying no external command-and-control (C2) infrastructure.

The cloud provides many great business advantages – efficiency, speed-to-market, and many others – and has been rapidly adopted by organizations all over the world. While the rise in cloud operations allows organizations to operate in a way that’s more cost-effective and flexible, opening data, assets, and networks to the internet creates additional risk — particularly around misconfigurations and non-compliance.

Enterprises today operate in a hyper-distributed environment where users, devices, applications, and workloads are no longer confined within traditional corporate boundaries. Whether you’re working with remote employees, branch offices, SaaS, IaaS, or non-human form factors like robots and AI workloads, everything must securely and reliably connect to everything else, along with unified policy enforcement.

Most of us have encountered suspicious emails or messages; a missed delivery notification, a security alert from a bank, or an unexpected prize win. Even when these messages raise red flags, it’s not uncommon for people to open them out of curiosity or concern. This is precisely what phishing relies on. Phishing refers to a type of cybercrime where attackers use fraudulent emails, text messages, or phone calls to deceive individuals.

This collaboration brings GitGuardian's expertise in secrets detection and non-human identity protection to the oil and natural energy sector, addressing unique challenges in operational technology environments.