How to Track All of Your Fourth-Party Cybersecurity Risks

A lack of direct communication with your fourth-party vendors makes tracking their security risks difficult. Thankfully, there are methods of overcoming this issue to help you remain informed of emerging fourth-party risks to help you easily track emerging fourth-party threats within your Fourth-Party Risk Management program. To learn how UpGuard can help you track your fourth-party risk, click here to request a free trial.

Consider This: Login Credentials

Login credentials are of great value to cybercriminals, which is why they have a lot of tricks, tactics, and techniques for obtaining user names and passwords. In this episode of "Consider This," we hear a story of a legitimate-looking email leading to a co-worker's world being turned upside down. Learn more about how to engage and prepare employees to recognize and neutralize social engineering attacks with Arctic Wolf's Managed Security Awareness.

Top Strategies to Harden Your Active Directory Infrastructure

Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is the central credential store for 90% of organizations worldwide. As the gatekeeper to business applications and data, it’s not just everywhere, it’s everything! Managing AD is a never-ending task, and securing it is even harder. At Netwrix, we talk to a lot of customers who are using our tools to manage and secure AD, and over the years, key strategies for tightening security and hardening AD to resist attacks have emerged.

Quickly onboard engineers and protect infrastructure with Teleport as a SAML and IDP

In this episode, we’ll go over how companies protect access to applications using Teleport. This webinar will focus on the workflow for quickly onboarding engineers to access your infrastructure and highlight how teams can use Teleport as a SAML and IDP for apps and websites. In the latter half of the session, we'll delve deeper into the technical intricacies of SAML and share valuable tips for enhancing the security and modernization of your IDP through the implementation of passwordless authentication. Don't miss this opportunity to bolster your organization's access security with Teleport.

Kimco Realty's Weingarten Investors Suffer From a Serious Data Breach

Kimco Realty is a major real estate investment company based in Jericho, NY. The company specializes in developing shopping centers and helps businesses obtain the commercial real estate they need for grocery stores and other plazas. The company focuses on metropolitan locations primarily and maintains a staff of about 630 employees while generating more than $1.7 billion in annual revenue.

Trustwave Briefs Federal Officials on Cybersecurity Trends and Discoveries

Karl Sigler, Senior Security Research Manager, SpiderLabs Threat Intelligence, conducted a series of briefings in Washington, D.C., to federal officials on April 12-13, giving an update on what Trustwave SpiderLabs researchers are finding with the Russia-Ukraine War, ChatGPT, and current phishing trends. During his time in Washington, Sigler spoke with the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, Department of Homeland Security/TSA, Senate staffers, and other departments.

Reduce silos and prevent supply chain threats

We’ve entered the fourth and final week of National Supply Chain Integrity Month, an initiative started by CISA and other government agencies to highlight the importance of securing our nation’s most critical systems and ensuring they stay resilient. I started off the month with a post about maturing your third-party risk management program, and followed that up with two more posts dedicated to securing the small business supply chain and streamlining procurement.