This year for the 13th year in a row, the healthcare industry continues to experience the most expensive data breaches worldwide, at an average cost of nearly $11 million – double the cost for the next-highest industry, finance. That’s not surprising; ransomware attacks on hospitals and health systems are constantly in the news. Add to that the cybersecurity talent shortage, which is especially acute (pardon the pun) in the healthcare industry.

New assets, vulnerabilities, and even human errors like server misconfigurations make a continuously updated overview non-negotiable. AppSec and ProdSec teams must take action on newly discovered vulnerabilities and policy breaches quickly and efficiently. Prioritizing which vulnerabilities and risks to remediate first and having this information all in one place will help security teams get the latest insights about their attack surface immediately.

Kroll has observed an uptick in cases of DARKGATE malware being delivered through Microsoft Teams messages. These campaigns have mainly targeted organizations in the transportation and hospitality sectors. This activity has also been reported throughout open-source reporting, sharing a number of key indicators with Kroll observations, such as common filenames, adversary infrastructure and similar domain name conventions to host the initial download.

In my role as an Inside Solutions Architect at 11:11 Systems, my objective is to match 11:11 Systems range of solutions to meet customer’s data protection needs, from simple off-site BaaS to fully managed DRaaS solutions. That objective is easier to achieve when customers come to the table with an effective and reliable recovery plan. So how do you make an effective and reliable recovery plan? Here are a couple of key consideration points when constructing your recovery plan.

Earlier this year, we introduced the LimaCharlie SecOps Cloud Platform (SCP). The SCP is a unified platform for modern cybersecurity operations. Similar to what the public cloud did for IT, the SCP offers security teams core cybersecurity capabilities and infrastructure: on-demand, pay-per-use, and API-first. In short, the SCP is a new paradigm for cybersecurity. It’s a game-changer for enterprise security teams and cybersecurity solutions builders.

Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the name for any framework of technology, policies and processes that authenticate and authorize a user in order for that user to access and consume an organization’s resources. Managing user identities and granting appropriate user access helps protect your assets. These assets can include digital access to sensitive information, intellectual property, data and application workloads, network access or perimeter access to the physical data center location.

23andMe is a personal genome and biotechnology company that provides genetic reports to interested clients. 23andMe employs over 800 employees and operates in California. The company reported $299 million in revenues this year, but the figure will likely drop in the upcoming quarter; opportunists have accessed 23andMe’s systems, resulting in thousands of user records leaking online.