The Australian Cyber and Infrastructure Security Centre (CISC) recently announced that the Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program (CIRMP) obligation had entered into effect. The Minister for Home Affairs, the Hon Clare O’Neil, signed the CIRMP Rules as the final part (Section 61) of the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (SOCI Act) on 17 February 2023, effective immediately.
Nearly 93% of healthcare organizations experienced a data breach in the last three years, and most of these events could have been avoided with basic cybersecurity practices. To help healthcare entities mitigate cybersecurity risks and increase their data breach resilience, we’ve created a comprehensive healthcare cybersecurity guide optimized for the biggest security threats in the industry.
On November 30, 2022, ChatGPT quaked the digital world, sending a tremor that even rattled the cybersecurity industry. Instead of responding in panic, a more sensible approach is to begin learning how to leverage the technology to streamline your workflow and optimize your skills. In this post, we explain how ChatGPT can be used to improve your cybersecurity posture and data breach resilience.
In February 2021, UpGuard researchers discovered that 51% of analyzed Fortune 500 companies were leaking information in the metadata of public documents hosted on their websites. This discovery is a window into a broader overlooked cyber threat category, increasing the risk of data breaches in the tech industry - data leaks. Data leaks (often confused with data breaches) help hackers compress the data breach attack pathway, increasing the speed, severity, and frequency of these events.
In our latest Snyk in 30 democast, I demonstrated working on an app, starting in an IDE and going all the way to the live app deployed in the cloud. Along the way, I showed how Snyk fits into the tools a real developer might use. Specifically, I focused on the practical aspects of implementing Snyk in a real-world development and cloud environment, answering questions like: I’ll cover some of the main highlights from the presentation in this blog post.
High-profile ransomware attacks against large businesses and governments have become increasingly popular. They typically occupy news headlines on a monthly basis. As of writing, the most recent, high-profile attack was launched against Porsche, South Africa, where IT systems and some backups were impacted by ransomware from an unknown attacker. The gangs that perpetrate these attacks typically have carefully-crafted, large public personas and engage in significant posturing.
Today’s release of the White House’s National Cybersecurity Strategy is the result of more than a year of government and industry collaboration that sets new boundaries for the government approach needed to improve global cyber defenses. The strategy clearly represents a shift away from decades-old voluntary compliance regimes to a more aggressive regulatory construct that seeks to shift cyber burdens onto providers/developers and owners and operators of critical infrastructure.
OAuth (Open Authorization) is a modern, open authorization standard designed to allow cross-application access delegation – for example, allowing your application to read data from your Facebook profile. Combined with the proper extensions, OAuth can also be used for authentication – for example, to log into your application using Google credentials. Since its first introduction in 2006, OAuth has gained tremendous popularity.
Active Directory (AD) is the foundation of managing identities, provisioning users and issuing permissions to network resources. These permissions range from the lowest levels of access to the highest levels of admin rights for privileged users. While having control over these permission levels is useful, organizations can open themselves up to serious vulnerabilities if they don’t manage the permission levels carefully.
