Welcome to our Data Security Innovators series, where we talk to security practitioners who are navigating the frontiers of security with novel processes and technologies. In this episode, we speak to Kheun Chan, Principal Security Architect at Iron Mountain. Iron Mountain is renowned as one of the world’s best secure information storage and management services, with 95% of the Fortune 1000 as customers of the company.

Proudly serving over 3,000 enterprises globally, Bitsight works closely with risk leaders across industries to help them protect their businesses. CISOs and third-party risk professionals face pressing challenges, from regulations to efficiency to maintaining supply chain resilience—all calling for smarter, easier, and more integrated solutions.

Bumblebee returns from hiatus, PikaBot reappears with optimized code, and threat actors distribute spam via AWS SNS.

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates in February 2024 include critical fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-21413 impacting Microsoft Outlook (called MonikerLink) and CVE-2024-21410 impacting Microsoft Exchange Server. The former allows remote code execution to access and leak privileged information, while the latter permits privilege escalation (potentially using credentials leaked by the former). These security risks expose a victim's machine to potentially malicious arbitrary code execution.

February 21, 2024 | By Ryan Felkel Amidst the growing shift towards cloud adoption and reliance, ensuring the resilience of your cloud infrastructure is paramount. With Amazon Web Services (AWS) serving as a cornerstone of many organizations’ cloud strategies, mastering disaster recovery within the AWS ecosystem is essential.

Kroll’s Q4 analysis shows ransomware groups increasingly gaining initial access through external remote services. The quarter presented a complex security landscape with a mix of both positive and negative trends: positively, activity associated with larger ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operations, like LOCKBIT and BLACKCAT, declined.

Open source security is a term used to describe the process of protecting your organization’s data and network from attack by using open-source software. It refers to the use of open-source software (OSS) for data protection. Open source software is free to use, meaning that anyone can access it without paying fees. This allows organizations to take advantage of the collective knowledge and experience of thousands of people who have contributed code or worked on projects together.

The CrowdStrike Global Threat Report, now in its tenth iteration, examines how adversaries’ behavior poses an ever-expanding risk to the security of organizations’ data and infrastructure. Armed with this critical information, organizations are better equipped to face evolving threats. Stealth was the pervading theme of the 2023 threat landscape.

Private equity (PE) firms have a unique power in the global marketplace, independently fostering innovation, creating jobs, and propelling economic growth. These entities infuse capital into a spectrum of industries throughout the business life-cycle, intent on delivering superior returns to investors while effectively navigating the complexities of the broader threat landscape.