Elo, Agility and INETCO announce strategic partnership to revolutionize payments reliability in Brazil

2º Congresso de Prevenção e Repressão a Fraudes, Segurança Cibernética e Bancária, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL, March 11, 2025 – Agility, one of Brazil’s leading IT and Cybersecurity service providers, and INETCO, a global leader in payments monitoring and fraud prevention, are proud to announce a new partnership with Brazilian payment processing trailblazer Elo.

The missing piece of your Zero Trust strategy: A unified data layer

How public sector agencies can solve Zero Trust challenges and break down silos with a unified data layer In the evolving and complex cyber landscape, the Zero Trust approach is instrumental in addressing both internal and external threats. It's a comprehensive strategy rather than a single solution, demanding the orchestration of multiple components to be genuinely effective.

The Akira ransomware exploit: Detecting IoT-based threats with Sumo Logic

In a recent and sophisticated cyberattack, the Akira ransomware group leveraged an unsecured Linux-based webcam to infiltrate a corporate network. By exploiting this overlooked IoT device, the attackers successfully bypassed traditional Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions, ultimately encrypting network shares and causing widespread damage.

Protecting Software Data: Securing Ways To Export Work Items From Jira

Having your software data is paramount: System administrators, data analysts, auditors, and software security experts face the challenge of securely extracting valuable information from Jira while ensuring efficiency, compliance, and data integrity. Fortunately, counting on reliable solutions to export issues or work items from Jira is a task that can be securely and efficiently covered.

Lessons from the Field, Part III: Why Backups Alone Won't Save You

It’s been a while since I’ve put some thoughts together for the CISO Blog, and with World Backup Day coming at the end of this month, the timing felt right. I’ve mentioned in the past that backups are crucial to keeping your data preserved and safe. But a backup is only as good as your ability to recover it—and that depends on security, testing, and a solid response plan.

What is Attack Surface Management?

With the rise of hybrid work and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications for core business functions, as well as the near ubiquity of the cloud, organizations’ attack surfaces are no longer easily defined. In many cases, they are rapidly expanding. This presents both new opportunities for threat actors and new challenges for security teams, giving rise to a new tactic for security posture improvement — attack surface management.

The Principles for Fair & Accurate Security Ratings: A Focus on Confidentiality

SecurityScorecard is actively engaged to ensure our Security ratings align with the Principles for Fair & Accurate Security Ratings, published by the US Chamber of Commerce. As part of this effort we strive to educate the cybersecurity community on how our products align with these important principles. This article is a continuation of a series of articles that describe how SecurityScorecard meets specific security rating principles as recommended by the US Chamber of Commerce.