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This piece was originally published on Fortra’s AlertLogic.com Blog.

The boon of online business and credit card transactions in the early 90s and 2000s resulted in an increasing trend of online payment fraud. Since then, securing business and online card transactions has been a growing concern for all business and payment card companies. The increasing cases of high-profile data breaches and losses from online fraud emphasized the need for urgent measures and a standardized approach to address the issue.

Active Directory (AD) security groups enable administrators to grant access to IT resources, both within a domain and across domains. However, groups can be members of other groups. This group nesting has profound implications for security, so it’s vital to understand nesting and how to nest groups correctly. This article explains how group nesting works and the best practices to follow.

Threat hunting has become an increasingly important aspect of cybersecurity, as organizations strive to identify and mitigate security incidents that automated systems may have missed. Yes, the definition of threat hunting can vary, and it generally involves a combination of manual and machine-assisted processes driven by human curiosity and pattern recognition.

As cyber threats continue to evolve and the attack surface continues to expand, the risk of a breach becomes a matter of if not when. With migration to the cloud accelerating along with a shift to hybrid work and a surge of new IoT devices at play in every industry, it’s time for organizations to shift the way they view cybersecurity. It is no longer enough to play defense, hoping you can thwart an attack and contain the damage when it comes.

This supply chain series centers on the lessons learned from OpenSSL and what you need to consider when enhancing your supply chain security. While this series will focus on OpenSSL and relevant libraries, we'll also consider vulnerabilities across the board. In the first installment, we covered everything you need to know about where to look for vulnerable libraries.

While ransomware continues to be a growing problem, double extortion ransomware in particular has been growing even more rapidly for organizations. Zscaler’s ThreatLabz has found a nearly 120% growth in double extortion ransomware. Double extortion attacks are devastating for organizations because they involve both the encryption of production data as well as the exfiltration of data.

The Get-ADUser cmdlet in PowerShell provides many parameters for finding one or more users in an Active Directory (AD) domain. By default, PowerShell runs using the account that is logged on to the machine. If you want to run a command using a different account, you can force PowerShell to prompt you for the credentials by using this switch before your command.

Certification to International Standards is an essential component of the modern business world. Certification to these standards provides organisations with external validation of their policies, processes and controls but also corroborates their knowledge and skills in key areas.