The capabilities of cloud computing have changed the digital landscape significantly, and the popularity of cloud solutions only continues to increase. According to Gartner, the market for public cloud services is expected to surpass 700 billion USD by the end of 2024. The growth of cloud technologies presents a wealth of new opportunities for IT teams but also brings a host of security challenges.

43% of all websites are built in WordPress (W3Techs). Custom WordPress sites rely on plugins, themes, and other components determined by the website administrators. Because these extensible components are often created by third-parties, each custom addition is a potential attack vector that needs to be monitored and updated to maintain a secure website. Website security is a critical aspect of your cybersecurity posture.

Security information and event management (SIEM) systems play a pivotal role in cybersecurity: they offer a unified solution for gathering and assessing alerts from a plethora of security tools, network structures, and software applications. Yet, the mere presence of a SIEM isn't a magic bullet. For optimal functionality, SIEM systems must be appropriately set up, governed, and supervised round-the-clock.

In our rapidly evolving digital landscape, the accumulation of old electronic devices is a common occurrence. Laptops, smartphones, external hard drives, and USB flash drives quickly become outdated and obsolete, yet they often contain a wealth of sensitive information. Safeguarding your personal and confidential data during the disposal process is of utmost importance.

The data about the rise of phishing attacks against businesses in the United Kingdom is in, and it’s bleak: UK phishing reports indicate that 79 percent of organizations in the UK were targeted by phishing attacks in the past year. Meanwhile, phishing is the initial attack vector in 36 percent of all data breaches globally, according to Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. And 80,000 new phishing sites appear every month, according to Cyberint research.

One of my favourite tools for playing with REST APIs is, of course, Postman. It can make interacting with DataTrails super quick and easy, and help you develop custom workflows for storing and validating your digital provenance and audit trails. Here’s a step-by-step guide to getting a robust Postman set-up configured, and if you head over the Postman public collections you’ll find a link to a pre-baked DataTrails Postman collection with this done for you, along with some example requests.

CoreWeave is a specialized GPU cloud provider powering the AI revolution. It delivers the fastest and most consistent solutions for use cases that depend on GPU-accelerated workloads, including VFX, pixel streaming and generative AI. CrowdStrike supports CoreWeave with a unified, AI-native cybersecurity platform, protecting CoreWeave’s architecture by stopping breaches.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has introduced a new revision of the Special Publication 800-53, revision 5. As with any document change of this scope there are minor and major changes. This paper will provide a high level overview of the significant changes, addressing a redefined focus in control families, accountability, governance, as well as a discussion of new control families, privacy transparency and supply chain risk management.