Patch management is the process of analyzing the systems within your network for missing updates. This process shines a spotlight on the vulnerable systems within your network, allowing you to apply the necessary patches to those systems. This ensures that any vulnerabilities or bugs present in the software gets fixed.
Hardening operating systems and keeping an audit trail of activity using a change detection and SIEM solution are must haves in order to ensure that your environment is safe from cyber attacks or unwanted intrusions. Moreover, establishing a secure baseline is a great addition for protecting your systems from internal and external threats.
Within the last decade or so, the advancement of distributed systems has introduced new complexities in managing your log data. Today’s systems can include Servers, Workstations, Firewalls, Databases etc., all with different Operating Systems and each generating their own log data.
This is it, the best ever PCI DSS and what is hoped will be the definitive version. Despite being a major version change, the 12 core requirements we know and love remain. But there are some significant changes planned. In headline terms, the update is determined to make the standard more flexible and more open to new technologies.
As technology continues to evolve, so does the potential for cybersecurity risks, and just as the technology industry is showing no signs of slowing down development, neither are cybercriminals. Unfortunately for adopters of advanced technologies, the 2020 Thales Data Threat Report – Global Edition reveals that the more digitally transformed an organization is, the more likely the company is to be breached.
With the ever-changing landscape of IT Security, the war against cybercriminals continues to evolve on a day by day basis. Now more than ever before, organizations need to implement proper security controls and mechanisms to help defend against the evolving threat landscape.
IT Services rely on an individual port assigned to them in order to receive and transmit information, therefore, it’s imperative that an organization keeps track of what ports are open within their IT environment, the function of the port and what services it’s associated with. Detecting and disabling unwanted ports is part of an ongoing hardening process.
As companies face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, they often turn to technology solutions to help protect their data and systems from attacks. But what happens when your company is in the technology industry? Cyberattacks are increasingly targeting technology companies who often store and handle significant amounts of sensitive data, including personally identifiable information and intellectual property on behalf of their customers.
Cybercriminals continue to take advantage of the global pandemic created by COVID-19 and are targeting government agencies and organizations via phishing emails and malware attacks. Learn about some of this month’s most notable data breaches and cyberattacks in our monthly Data Breach Round-Up article series, the May edition.
Configuration drift occurs when unrecorded or unplanned changes are made to a system, application or network. As a system drifts over time, away from the original intended state, the severity of the matter increases. Any user’s actions, however big or small, that result in a given configuration deviating away from one that is considered necessary or secure can have potentially severe consequences and detrimental effects on an organization.
