If you were running a business that was not oriented to remote work, it has been completely turned upside down. Even if you were “remote-only”, it is likely going to be tough sledding for the foreseeable future given the resulting economic downturn.
Amidst all the pandemic doom and gloom, we finally have something positive come from the chaos: NERC filed a motion recently (April 6, 2020) to defer three Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards (as well as 1 PER, and 3 PRC standards) for three months due to the national emergency declared on March 13th by President Trump. As the original implementation date was July 1, 2020, this means that should FERC approve the motion, the new implementation date would be October 1, 2020.
One item that comes up a lot in conversations is how security teams or IT teams struggle to speak the “business language” to business leaders, mainly to members of the senior leadership that make the final decisions on spending and investments. This problem could have its roots in IT, and later security, teams historically having their management lines within the accounting department, ultimately being accountable to the Chief Financial Officer.
At Redscan, we’ve set about shining light on some of these challenges by analysing how the crisis has affected online search behaviour in relation to cyber security and technology. The findings provide insight into how well-prepared businesses were for such an incident, the tools organisations are turning to support operations, and potential threats they are facing.
Chief information security officers (CISOs) face no shortage of challenges. Expanding attack surfaces and complex cloud security environments have given rise to new advanced threats. Compliance regulations have become more rigorous and punitive. And while digital transformation accelerates the pace of doing business, its impact is often limited by budget restrictions and security talent gaps. At Splunk we talk to hundreds of CISOs every year. Here's what they told us they care about in 2020.
This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Is your company at risk of a Denial of Service (DoS) attack? If so, which areas are particularly vulnerable? Think it’s a crazy question? Think again. In 2020, 16 DDoS attacks take place every minute. DoS attacks require fewer resources, and so pose an even greater threat. In this post, we’ll discuss what a DoS attack is and how it differs from a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
As continuous software deployments grow and become the accepted standard, security measures gain even more importance. From development and all the way through to production, security requirements should be adopted by all teams in an organization. JFrog IDE integrations provide security and compliance intelligence to the developer right from within their IDE.
Digital fraudsters have seized upon coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) as a lure for their new scams and attack campaigns. Together, these malicious operations constitute nothing short of a deluge. Barracuda revealed that it spotted 9,116 coronavirus-themed spear-phishing emails between March 1 and March 23, 2020—a 667% increase over the 1,188 attacks detected a month earlier. By comparison, the security firm spotted just 137 coronavirus-themed email campaigns in January.
We love it when our teams and colleagues are sharing with us their personal projects and findings - this time, Android Apps Penetration Testing by our own Noy Pearl. If you are an android developer, pen-tester, researcher or just like most of us a security enthusiasts - this one is for you.
Why leveraging live environment simulations and putting ICS tools to the test is the best way to evaluate their fitness. Track and field was one of my favorite sports growing up. I didn’t begin competitively participating until I was a teenager, but I was instantly hooked once I started. Why? Because the clock didn’t lie. The tape measure didn’t lie. The fastest time always won, and the longest throw always won. I like to think of ICS security tools in a similar way.
