Nearly 6k Patients Lose Data to Utah Medicaid Breach

The Utah Medicaid office offers healthcare to qualifying patients throughout the state. These patients rely on the organization to provide them with their medical insurance and to offer other services to them. While providing those services, the organization maintains health and wellness information as well as personal data. That's why it's concerning that the Utah Medicaid office recently experienced a self-caused data breach.

PAM Automation Scripts: Don't Forget to Secure Admin Credentials

While IT executives understand the essential role privileged access management (PAM) solutions play in their organization’s overall security strategy, they’ve also continued to ask their PAM administrators to do more with less resources. To meet these additional asks, PAM admins have automated routine PAM tasks using scripts. PAM automation scripts can significantly lessen the burden on PAM admins and enable organizations to scale PAM usage across their entire enterprise.

Weekly Cybersecurity Recap June 16

Data breaches are becoming more prevalent and serious each week in 2023, but this week was a bad one for the MOVEit file transfer service, as well as medical organizations and schools and school districts. Anyone utilizing MOVEit should immediately patch the service for their protection, but we're going to go into specifics about that breach, as well as breaches impacting the Pearland, Texas school district, Intellihartx, the MN Department of Education, and the Utah Medicaid system.

The Importance of Visibility | CYBR Pride

We are so proud to share CYBR Pride Employee Resource Group members Luke Thomas, Ani King and Fayssal Chenna as they discuss the importance of visibility and what it means for the LGBTQIA+ community. Listen to them talk about the power of representation and how we can all contribute to creating a safe space for everyone.

What Is A Disaster Recovery Plan And Why Is It So Important ?

A disaster recovery plan (DPR) is essentially a roadmap designed to manage the disruptions of an unforeseen incident (such as a data breach or ransomware attack). Many small businesses may not see the value in establishing a disaster recovery plan until it’s too late, leaving their data and their client’s data at severe risk. The likelihood of your business experiencing a cyber-attack is higher than you might think.

Chris Farris - Unblurring The Lines In Cloud Security

00:00 Intro: welcome Chris!

03:05 Trends in cloud security, reflected at fwd:cloudsec

05:00 fwd:cloudsec submissions - more practitioners needed!

10:40 Blurring the lines: what does that practically means?

19:30 Cloud service providers maturity: their security posture evolved

24:30 Public Cloud Security Breaches

30:01 Public Cloud Security Breaches demo

32:35 the Last Pass attack deep dive

38:00 Identify the crown jewels!

How to Use Algorithms to Identify Suspicious Activity in Real-Time

The growth of fraudulent activity poses a significant threat to businesses in today's increasingly digital environment. The techniques fraudsters use are continuously evolving-making it difficult for traditional rule-based systems to stay up, as the estimated corporate revenue lost to fraud stands at $4.7 trillion globally every year. Employing increasingly advanced and dynamic fraud detection techniques have become essential. Machine learning is the most promising technology tool to combat financial fraud.

Top 5 Malware Trends on the Horizon

Cybercrime has become a dominant concern for many businesses, as well as individuals. Cybercriminals will target any business, and any individual if they can realize a profit from their minimal efforts. One of the ways that criminals achieve their goals is through the use of malware that garners a fast profit, such as ransomware. More enterprising criminals will use more persistent malware, which enables them to return to the target for further victimization.