Even though this blog discusses some serious topics related to security of mission-critical SAP applications, why not start it with a fun trivia question? So, here it is: “What does SAP stand for?” As per the company’s website, SAP is an acronym for the organization’s original German name “Systemanalyse Programmentwicklung,” which stands for System Analysis Program Development in English. Founded in 1972, SAP is a global leader in enterprise application software.

The latest Phishing Activity Trends Report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) shows an unrelenting upward trend in the number of phishing attacks per quarter. Despite the alarm that the growth in the number of phishing attacks should generate, this report sheds some light on what seems to be working for cybercriminals if you dig a little deeper. According to the report.

Your organization’s cybersecurity ecosystem is complex. It covers a wide range of internal digital assets but also extends beyond the network perimeter to other entities, such as vendors, suppliers, and cloud service providers—making you increasingly vulnerable to cyber risk. To secure this ecosystem, you need both an outside-in and inside-out perspective of vulnerabilities and risks.

We hear a lot about the cybersecurity skills gap, which the latest research puts at 770,000 open positions in the U.S. and 3.4 million globally. There are lots of reasons why organizations find themselves dealing with a skills deficit – from an actual dearth of qualified talent to internal factors including turnover, lack of budget/competitive wages, limited opportunities for growth and promotion, and lack of training.

Analysis of Microsoft Power Platform’s security features revealed limitations that could expose organizations to security risks, such as difficulty enforcing DLP policies for pre-existing resources and issues with HTTP calls or custom connectors.

We’re thrilled to announce Vanta Workspaces, a new capability in our platform that enables complex organizations with multiple business units to easily customize, manage, and automate compliance at both the business unit and parent organization level in a single Vanta account. With Workspaces, your organization can save time and money, improve your compliance and security posture, and accelerate revenue with the attestations and certifications your end customers require.

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Netskope Threat Labs is tracking phishing campaigns abusing InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to deliver their payloads. From March 1 to April 30, Netskope Threat Labs has seen a 7x increase in traffic to IPFS phishing pages. The attacks have been targeting victims mainly in North America and Asia Pacific across different segments, led by the financial services, banking, and technology sectors. IPFS was first launched in 2014 and has been steadily increasing in popularity since.

We are delighted to announce game changing features now offered as part of ManageEngine PAM360, our enterprise privileged access management (PAM) suite. With PAM360’s new additions to its Zero Trust offering, your organization’s privileged identities will be protected like never before. These updates will be available with the latest version of PAM360.

CrowdStrike Falcon® LogScale provides a full range of dashboarding and live query capabilities out of the box. Sometimes, however, you’ll work in an environment where there are other solutions alongside LogScale. For example, let’s say your operations team takes an observability approach that includes metrics scraped by Prometheus, tracing with Tempo and dashboard visualizations with Grafana.