After COVID, enterprise IT security got turned on its head. As the world adjusted to working from home, and continues to, IT teams worked overtime to enable remote access for millions of employees. This transition has gone smoothly for most organizations, but many security gaps still remain years later. The SolarWinds data breach is a worrying example. It shows how vulnerable organizations are to malicious activity in our changing risk environment.

Texting has taken over the global communication space; marketers and predators are seeing huge dollar signs. Email continues to be a reliable, but somewhat fraught with problems, alternative form of communication. In fact, the average user interacts, sends, and receives 25% more texts than email, and usage is skyrocketing. Most electronic device users have loads more unopened emails than texts.

Automation has revolutionized the way cybersecurity functions. Not only has it led to significant time savings, but it has also improved the consistency and accuracy of various processes. Here, we will discuss how to effectively record the time saved from automation to demonstrate its value. Tines offers great utilities to easily record the time an analyst has saved by automating manual, repetitive tasks over the course of a day, right down to the second.

We’ve had occasion to write about ChatGPT’s potential for malign use in social engineering, both in the generation of phishbait at scale and as a topical theme that can appear in lures. We continue to track concerns about the new technology as they surface in the literature.

The terms “readiness” and “resiliency” complement each other, but they’re different.

Trustwave was honored during Cyber Defense Magazine in the 11th Annual Global InfoSec Awards at the 2023 RSA Conference, taking home accolades for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Service Providers and was named the Market Leader in Penetration Testing.

Having recently finished an extensive and eye-opening purple team engagement, I took some time to reflect on the sheer amount of ground that we had covered in just 6 short weeks.

Keeper Security continually invests in new, more robust technologies to counter emerging threats. That’s why Keeper is upgrading our account recovery process via a new and more secure 24-word “recovery phrase” feature, replacing the current user-customizable security question-and-answer recovery method.