This blog is the first post of a two-part series. Part 1 talks about the concept of a nation-state and then provides a high-level overview of Locked Shields — the world's largest cybersecurity exercise — and its increasingly important role in promoting cyber warfare readiness for NATO member states and partners. Part 1 also outlines the steps taken by nations to prepare for a cyber warfare exercise.

We are thrilled to share the exciting news that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named WatchGuard the SMB Network Security winner, as well as a finalist in the Endpoint Protection category, as part of its prestigious annual CRN Tech Innovator Awards for 2023! CRN’s annual Tech Innovators list showcases the most innovative vendors in the IT channel across 37 different key technology categories.

Microservices security is a growing concern for businesses in the face of increasing cyber threats. With application layer attacks being a leading cause of breaches, it’s more important than ever to safeguard the HTTP-based communication between microservices within a Kubernetes cluster. Traditional web application firewalls (WAFs) are not designed to address this specific challenge, but Calico WAF offers a unique solution.

I’m Peter Wrenn, my friends call me Pete! I have the pleasure of being the moderator of the Tines Technical Advisory Board (TAB) which is held quarterly. In it, some of Tines’s power users engage in conversations around product innovations, industry trends, and ways we can push the Tines vision forward — automation for the whole team. Well, that’s the benefit to our customers and Tines.

PCI version 4.0 was released in March 2022, and all organizations that must be compliant with the regulation have a deadline of March 31, 2024 to do so. So, what does the new version say about pen testing? According to Requirement 11 of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), pen testing is required for organizations and entities that store, process, and/or transmit cardholder data.

For the second consecutive year, Information Security Group (ISG) named Trustwave a Rising Star in Managed Security Services (MSS) for U.S. Large Accounts and for the first time as a Leader in MSS for U.S. Midmarket in its 2023 Provider Lens™ Quadrant Report. ISG recognized Trustwave for its holistic offering with enhanced visibility, continuous threat monitoring and hunting, and its elite partnerships.

We recently published a blog post detailing how threat actors could leverage AI tools such as ChatGPT to assist in attacks targeting operational technology (OT) and unmanaged devices. In this blog post, we highlight why healthcare organizations should be particularly worried about this.

As cyberattacks and the overall threat landscape grow more complex, managed service providers (MSPs) need to evolve. As an MSP, you must be capable of protecting customers from attacks targeting networks, devices, and users. Finding ways to protect your customers’ expanding threat surface is one thing, but doing so without compromising on operational efficiency or profitability is another. At times this can feel like an insurmountable task.