In an increasingly digital world, cybersecurity has become a critical concern for companies. With the rise of sophisticated cyber threats, protecting critical infrastructure and ensuring the continuity of essential services has become a top priority. The EU’s Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2), which supersedes the previous directive from 2016, establishes a framework to enhance the security and resilience of network and information systems.

Our team has been hard at work creating updates and new features just for you, see what we’ve been up to over the last month.

August 31, 2023 By Isac Hur, Senior FedRAMP/ StateRAMP/ CMMC Practice Lead and Quality Assurance As a compliance auditor and practitioner in the FedRAMP space, I see a lot of mistakes cloud service providers (CSPs) make that cause them a tremendous amount of grief when seeking authorization. The process is painful enough on its own, but many of the people you hear venting frustration have made missteps.

Cyber threats pose a significant risk to organizations due to today's increasingly interconnected digital landscape. To address these challenges and ensure the security and resilience of critical infrastructure and digital services, the European Union introduced the Directive (UE) 2022/2555, commonly known as NIS 2 - which was actually approved on the same day as DORA, both being critical in how the EU is leveraging regulatory compliance and technology to reduce cyber risk.

This month's release rollup includes product updates and enhancements from Egnyte around AI-driven document summarization and helpdesk chatbot, workflow templates, and smart cache for Civil 3D. Below is a summary of these and other new releases. Visit the linked articles for more details.

A strong password is made up of at least 16 characters and contains upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols. Strong passwords also follow password best practices so they never contain personal information, dictionary words or phrases, and are never reused across multiple accounts. Continue reading to learn why strong passwords are necessary and tips for creating a strong password.

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released its 2024-2026 Cybersecurity Strategic Plan, which the agency says will change the trajectory of our national cybersecurity risk by focusing not just on how to defend but developing metrics to measure progress.

When we put forward a vision for cybersecurity talking about building one platform that covers all security operations - or as we call it SecOps Cloud Platform - we could not have imagined that a month later, the world’s largest pure-play cybersecurity company would buy into this vision. This alignment is flattering, to say the least. Yesterday, Cole Grolmus of Strategy of Security published an article titled The Audacious Future of Palo Alto Networks.

In part one of this four-part series on card cracking fraud, we covered the basics of what carding is, how carders use bots to power their attacks, and defined the most important terms and phrases within the carding vocabulary in our Carder’s Dictionary. Click here if you missed it or need a recap. In part two, we’ll be talking more specifically about the carding landscape in Russia and on Russian-speaking forums and online communities.