Recently, we’ve noticed an increase in user reports of SMS-based Business Email Compromise (BEC) messages. This seems to be part of a wider trend as phishing scams via text messages surge. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) observed an increase in unsolicited text messages, with 2022 practically tripling the number of phishing texts reported to the FCC in 2019. Phishing scams are prevalent in the SMS threat landscape, and now, BEC attacks are also going mobile.

The role of a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in cybersecurity is to ensure that the organization’s technology infrastructure and systems are secure and protected against cyber threats. This involves implementing and overseeing security measures and policies, monitoring network activity for potential threats, and managing the response to any security incidents that may occur.

While we have all used digital security certificates like SSL/TLS, code signing certificates, or others, many don’t know the security technology behind them. Stringent security standards ensure that the cyber threats looming around us never get to our digital systems. Due to such threats, there’s a constant advancement happening in data security technology to protect sensitive information. Encryption and Signing are two methods used widely for data security.

There’s no denying that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an essential security measure that significantly improves an organization’s cyber posture. However, there is no silver bullet in cybersecurity. Though multi-factor authentication proves extremely helpful, determined and resourceful cybercriminals can still find techniques to bypass it. Let’s look at some frequently-used methods cyber-attackers leverage to bypass MFA.

Identity isn’t a security problem — it’s the security problem. This was the takeaway from my recent meeting with a local government CISO in the Washington, D.C. area. Tasked with protecting infrastructure, including the fire and police departments, the CISO turned to CrowdStrike a year ago for endpoint and identity protection.

Setting employee controls for IT to manage is the biggest challenge to cloud-native expansion, according to 64% of the developers surveyed in our 2022 Cloud-Native Alignment report.

Following CrowdStrike’s strong performance in the first-ever MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations for Security Managed Services Providers with 99% detection coverage, we take a deep dive into the testing process and how our elite managed services operate in the real world. We recently announced CrowdStrike achieved 99% detection coverage in the inaugural MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations for Security Managed Services Providers.

In a market projected to grow to $288.30 billion by 2030, data centers will expand to facilitate more data-driven workloads, including AI and big data. Much of this expansion continues to occur in the cloud, as companies seek to reap the benefits of low-cost infrastructure that they can spin up as needed. In fact, research shows that cloud workloads represented 94% of all data center workloads worldwide in 2021.

Continuing our series about potential attack scenarios, learn how a very easy configuration mistake on GitHub can lead to a major security breach.

Cyber insurance is a specialized insurance policy that was created to protect businesses from the losses that can occur as a result of cyber attacks. The size of your business does not matter when it comes to needing cyber insurance, and it shouldn’t be your only priority when it comes to your business’s cybersecurity. Read on to learn more about cyber insurance coverage and its cost.