Time and again, analyst reports, independent tests and numerous other awards and acknowledgements affirm CrowdStrike is a leader in cybersecurity. Why is this important? Because when CrowdStrike is #1, it’s our customers who win. But to us, the best validation of the power of the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform comes from our customers themselves. We are proud to have earned the trust of so many organizations — over 20,000 customers and counting — around the world.

Passport verification is a process that is used to confirm a person’s identity using their passport as proof of identification. In the housing industry, this process is commonly used to verify the identity of prospective tenants or buyers before they are allowed to rent or purchase a property. This is often done as part of the overall background check process to ensure that the person is who they claim to be and to protect against fraud or other illegal activities.

2022 saw a lot of successful law enforcement operations tackling online fraud, phishing, malware, and other cyber threats. Here’s the TOP 10 law enforcement agencies most active in fighting cybercrime.

Your internet browser is the interface you use to access the internet. As such, it knows and handles a lot of your data. Unfortunately, browsers are also data collection tools for advertisers and marketers. They track your web activities to monetize you through their advertising partners with targeted ads. Also, let’s not forget the cybercriminals looking for data to steal. Most browsers store your browsing history. Also, cookies and trackers in the browsers monitor your every digital footprint.

In 2001, NIST (the US National Institute of Standards and Technology) announced Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), a new encryption standard, designed to help organisations enhance protections against brute force attacks. The previous Data Encryption Standard (DES) had become vulnerable, with processing power growing, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) had proved that DES encryption could be broken in less than 24 hours, therefore a new encryption standard was required.

Philip Ingram (PI) talked to Darren Desmond (DD). Darren currently works with the Automobile Association (AA) in the UK as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), joining in 2018. He started his professional career in the British Army's Royal Military Police, before a stint in the Special Investigation Branch, and Military Intelligence.

2023 is coming in hot. If you don't want to miss out on this year's best events, you better start planning your conference schedule early. To help you out, I created an overview of my personal top 10 favorite cybersecurity events in 2023 about application security, cloud security, IoT, and all the other topics that currently occupy the cybersecurity world.

Azure Bicep is getting more popular by the day and is rapidly becoming the replacement for Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. In this post, I am going to go over some security fundamentals when using Bicep. If you are not familiar with Bicep then I recommend taking a look at the Microsoft Learn documentation to find out more.

In August 2021, threat actors started to exploit ProxyShell vulnerabilities in certain Microsoft Exchange Server versions. Today, not only is Kroll seeing actors continue to leverage ProxyShell in larger network intrusions but also now organizations must also be on guard for the so-called ProxyNotShell vulnerabilities, which surfaced in September 2022.