Organizations in the UAE have been able to deliver innovative services and stimulate economic development through the increasing adoption of Information Technology (IT), electronic communications, and cyberspace, which is a global network of interconnected telecommunications networks, information technology infrastructures, and computer processing systems. As these technologies develop, the UAE's dependence on them will increase.
Matt Lawrence, Head of Defensive Security, and Dan Green, Head of Solutions, write about why compromise is inevitable – and the practical steps that organisations can take to build a security operating model capable of weathering the storm of cyber threats today.
In the first two blogs in this series, we discussed properly setting up IAM and avoiding direct internet access to AWS resources. In this blog, we’ll tackle encrypting AWS in transit and at rest.
SecurityScorecard has been in Davos, Switzerland for the past week with heads of state, CEOs, and other global leaders as part of the 2023 World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting. Along with climate change, sustainability, and geopolitical complexities, cybersecurity is one of the hottest topics of WEF’s official programming and the myriad private events that are part of the Davos annual experience.
Frost & Sullivan has named Sysdig a Leader in its recent research, Frost Radar™: Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP). The independent report ranks Sysdig as a top vendor in both innovation and growth, putting special emphasis on the strength of Sysdig’s technology and market vision compared to competitors in the space.
Increased cloud adoption has introduced new security risks; organizations need to protect invaluable, sensitive data that can be accessed from anywhere. Traditional methods no longer suffice - today’s security operations teams must adopt innovative solutions and streamlined processes to effectively manage the increase in complexity and ensure mission-critical cloud loads are safeguarded.
The Windows Registry is one of the most powerful Windows operating system features that can tweak or manipulate Windows policies and low-level configuration settings. Because of this capability, most malware or adversaries abuse this hierarchical database to perform malicious tasks on a victim host or environment. Over the last 2 years, the Splunk Threat Research Team has analyzed and reverse engineered some of the most prevalent and successful malware families.
Our most recent Cloud and Threat Report highlighted how threat actors abuse cloud services (with a special focus on cloud storage apps) to deliver malicious content (and yes, OneDrive leads the chart of the most exploited apps). To confirm that this trend will likely continue in 2023, researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an active campaign, launched by a threat actor named Earth Bogle.
With the average person spending about two and a half hours on social media daily and possibly up to six hours on the internet, there’s no doubt we’ve all built a legacy on the web. Have you ever thought about what happens after you pass away? Will your online presence turn into ghost accounts that are inaccessible to loved ones and susceptible to attackers?
It's no surprise if you have heard about LockBit. It is the world's most active ransomware group - responsible for an estimated 40% of all ransomware infections worldwide. I guess LockBit does the usual bad stuff - encrypt your data, steal your files, dump a ransom note on your PC... Yes.
