Fairfax Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery serves the residents of Northern Virginia and the surrounding region. They employ a ten-person surgery team with six locations. Fairfax has been the target of a data breach, creating over 235,000 potential victims; your information may be at risk if you’ve been a patient of an associated facility.

In vulnerability management (VM), the task of sifting through vast amounts of data to pinpoint critical insights can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack, specifically a haystack with many precious needles that all look alike. And, of course, the one needle you’re looking for is mission-critical and can mean the difference between securing your business and leaving it open to attack.

The modern threat landscape is constantly changing and the software supply chain has become a common target for cybercriminals. Cyberthreats have become a headache for overworked developers and DevOps teams as they face tight deadlines, limited staffing resources and the added burden of ensuring that their code does only what it is intended to do and is free of bugs and malware.

In merely a few decades, technological pioneers developed an unprecedented ability for society to access and store data in immeasurable quantities. This newfound power transformed many aspects of the physical world into a digital one, taking everyday activities such as banking, gaming, shopping, and socializing online.

As a CISO or security leader, you juggle many responsibilities—crafting a cybersecurity strategy, managing the security budget, and overseeing your organization’s information systems. But can you remember the last time you took a moment to step back and prioritize evaluating your SIEM? Like your favorite pair of jeans from 15 years ago, your trusty on-prem SIEM likely isn’t fitting as well as it used to. Here are four ways your legacy solution is holding you back.

We often hear of how we need to protect ourselves from online scams. Criminals seek our personal information in order to use it for multiple nefarious purposes. However, there is a population who, while not having a broad online presence, are equally vulnerable to identity theft. Children are particularly vulnerable to identity theft, as they often have clean credit histories and their personal information is not monitored as closely as adults.

The intersection of privilege escalation and identity is taking on new dimensions with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As AI becomes increasingly integrated into our lives, it both challenges and reinforces existing notions of privilege and identity. In this blog, we'll explore what privilege escalation means in the context of AI and how it influences our understanding of personal and societal identities.

As a CISO, securing web applications and ensuring their resilience against evolving cyber threats is a non-negotiable priority. Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report 2023 cites web applications as the top attack vector by a long shot (in both breaches and incidents). Here’s a simplified checklist for securing web applications that will help you improve your organization’s security posture and the integrity of your technology.