More than 67% of internet users in the US remain blissfully unaware of online privacy and data protection regulations. At the same time, the global average cost of data breaches and cyber-attacks has increased by 15% since 2020 to $4.45 million. In fact, compromised credentials and personal information are responsible for nearly 20% of nearly 1.4 billion security incidents during this period.
We’re excited to share that Forrester has named CrowdStrike a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: External Threat Intelligence Services Providers, Q3 2023. CrowdStrike received the highest ranking of all vendors in the Current Offering category, with the highest score possible in 16 criteria, surpassing all other vendors evaluated in the report.
With the SEC's adoption of new rules on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure by public companies, one thing is clear: better definitions are required.
It’s hard to imagine that there are upwards of 100 billion devices connected to each other today. Many of these devices are terrestrial; however, more and more devices are being brought online across the sky, sea, and space. As complexity grows, we need to ensure we have the right level of automation in place to keep everything running smoothly. One of my first goals at Forward Networks was to echo what we are already doing publicly – building a secure product in a secure environment.
In geopolitical – or even gang warfare, there are usually pretty clear sides. You have two opposing groups and their allies, a dispute, and skirmishes or battles. It’s Team A versus Team B. When it comes to cyber warfare, though, people don’t really have a “face” or specific group to associate with malicious activity. How can you defend against an enemy you don’t understand? Who are these people? What do they want? Why would they come after you?
Michigan State University is a large school located in East Lansing, Michigan. This public university has more than 49,000 students per semester and is set over a location spread across 5,300 acres. The university caters to hundreds of thousands of students over time, many of whom may have been exposed due to a recent data breach. The breach wasn't on the university itself, but it likely impacted many of the students attending Michigan State.
As promised, we wanted to dedicate a blog to detections and findings from the network operations center (NOC) at Black Hat Asia 2023 as a follow up to our Lessons Learned blog. Some of these discoveries may not surprise the seasoned analyst or senior threat hunter – but will hopefully provide a little entertainment, because the more things change, the more they stay the same.
We have come a long way in the cybersecurity sector in a relatively short period of time, but there remain many challenges in day-to-day operations that create security gaps in many organizations. One of the most common is tied to how we build our solutions, making sure they are secure out-of-the-box instead of only being evaluated during a pen test or annual review, and finding out then that there is much more that needs to be done to achieve data security.
