Emerging Threats: What's New in the Cybersecurity Landscape?

In a time where sensitive information is increasingly moving online, AI systems are developing and we are increasingly relying on the internet in our day-to-day activities, cybersecurity threats loom larger than ever. A recent study found that cyber attacks are escalating at an unprecedented rate, with a new attack now occurring every 39 seconds. While a startling statistic, this shouldn't come as a surprise, in 2024 just about everyone is inundated with hacking attempts and scams whether the attack is a phone call, text, email or malicious software.

Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age: Strategies for Businesses and Individuals

In the digital age, the vast majority of our activities are online. Keeping these activities anonymous, however, is a difficult task. To ensure your data remains private, you must step out of your usual browsing habits and take extra steps. To understand some of those steps, below are six privacy tips for individuals and companies.

Top tips: Benefits of data backup and recovery

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll look at four ways your organization can benefit from having a strong data backup and recovery system. The value of data in today’s market cannot be highlighted enough. With so much emphasis given to data, it is only sensible to ensure that we put measures in place to ensure this data is protected from prying eyes and is safe from being lost.

SIEM in Seconds - Splunk Enterprise Security Auto Refresh and Timeline of Notable Events

SOC analysts are overwhelmed sifting through a sea of notable events. They are unable to prioritize events and act fast. With Auto Refresh in the Incident Review interface, users will not have to re-run the Incident Response search or refresh the page. Furthermore, an interactive timeline for notable events within the Incident Response interface enables the SOC to quickly prioritize critical incidents.

Weekly Cyber Security News 28/03/2024

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! Social engineering attacks can be very effective and good that someone spotted one but unfortunately for them persistence scored in the end.

Who You Gonna Call? For Incident Response

Globally, no organization is immune to attack. Cybersecurity threats are a reality and every organization, anywhere in the world, is a potential target, regardless of location or size. It’s not a question of if, but when an incident will affect your organization. Do you know who you will call for assistance?

Embracing DevSecOps for Containers and Kubernetes with Calico Cloud

DevSecOps is a collaborative practice that incorporates security into the development and delivery of software. DevSecOps encourages a culture where security, development, and operations teams collaborate closely; this collaboration ensures that security considerations are understood and implemented by everyone involved in the software development lifecycle.

SIEM in Seconds - Splunk Enterprise Security Enhanced Risk Analysis Dashboard

With the enhanced risk analysis dashboard in Splunk Enterprise Security, security analysts can now monitor user entity risk events from detections across risk-based alerting and behavioral analytics, which provides a deeper, and more holistic, layer of visibility across all detection events.

Election Security: Defending Democracy in Today's Dynamic Cyber Threat Landscape

With over 50 countries heading to the polls this year, including major economies like the U.S., India and the U.K., 2024, one way or another, will be a defining year with over 4 billion voters – around half the world’s population – participating in the democratic process.