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Achieving any kind of compliance can be grueling. Ensuring your organization is SOC 2 compliant is often a particularly laborious endeavor, requiring extensive resources to obtain and maintain. SOC 2 is a comprehensive cybersecurity compliance framework developed by the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants). It helps guarantee third-party service providers handle customer data with appropriate security measures.

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) acts as a vital bridge between the world of IP addresses and MAC addresses, allowing devices on local area networks to seek out each other's physical address based solely on their IP. ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) can also be defined as a communication protocol used to map a network layer address (such as an IP address) to a link layer address (such as a MAC address).

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While things can sometimes seem “back to normal” in the rest of the world, the devastating war is still going on in Ukraine, affecting millions of innocent civilians. Reflecting on the past year’s suffering of the Ukrainian people, we’d like to summarize the cyber warfare aspect of this conflict. In 2022, Russian government-backed cyberattacks targeted users in Ukraine more than any other country.

Antivirus software is a program you install on your computer that prevents, detects and removes known viruses and malware such as trojan horses, adware, worms and more. Continue reading to learn more about antivirus software, how it works, and the benefits and limitations of having it installed.

On February 27, 2023, LastPass updated their security incident notice to include additional details around the data breach they began investigating in November 2022. According to their notice, the threat actor used information obtained in an earlier, August 2022, data breach to target an employee and obtain credentials and keys used to decrypt storage volumes within their cloud-based storage service.

Protect your business, bounce back from disasters: learn the best practices for a reliable GitHub Restore and Disaster Recovery strategy that ensures business continuity.

Once threat actors gain a foothold on a system, they must implement techniques to maintain that access, even in the event of restarts, updates in credentials or any other type of change that might disrupt access. These techniques are collectively known as persistence techniques. In this blog post, we will focus on how malware can achieve persistence by abusing the Windows Registry.

We believe our recognition in the 2022 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms reinforces CrowdStrike’s position as a cybersecurity leader, innovator and visionary placing farthest to the right for Completeness of Vision. We are proud to share that CrowdStrike has once again been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP).

After extensive testing and analysis, the AV-TEST Institute has named CrowdStrike Falcon® Pro for Mac the Best MacOS Security Product for Business for 2022. AV-TEST completed its evaluation of macOS security products for business users for 2022 following a year-long series of tests, in which Falcon Pro for Mac was the only security product to score a perfect 18.0 points in three straight quarterly evaluations. In announcing the decision, AV-TEST CEO Maik Morgenstern praised Falcon Pro for Mac.