October was National Cyber Security Awareness Month which is an excellent opportunity to invest in a modern approach to email security awareness. Most companies and organizations conduct security awareness training annually, during onboarding, and after an adverse event. The effectiveness of periodic training varies greatly and depends on organizational culture and structure, leading to unexpected or undesired results.
There is no more effective initial attack vector than phishing. With an ability to reach well-within your organization’s logical perimeter all the way down to an individual user’s Inbox with some form of malicious content, phishing has proven to be a challenge to organizations working to maintain a proper security stance. On top of this, phishing attacks have some pretty impressive accolades.
Malware infections are common and are often missed by antivirus software. Their impact to critical infrastructure and applications can be devastating to an organization's network, brand and customers if not remediated. With the everchanging nature of cyberattacks, organizations need a layered security strategy. They shouldn’t depend solely on a single layer of security to keep them protected.
Scams occurring during online purchases have spiked since the start of the pandemic, as reported in new research conducted by the Better Business Bureau (BBB). Around 80.5% of consumers who reported this type of scam this year lost money, compared to 71.2% in 2015. Online purchasers scams have been among the three riskiest scams for the past three years but the situation has become significantly more severe in 2020.
Someone you don’t know walks into your office and sits down at a computer. Maybe that computer is a corporate desktop assigned to a mid-level manager or to a member of your IT department. Maybe it’s a personally owned laptop used by a contractor. That unknown person plugs a USB dongle into that computer, installs some software (typing in the correct password, if requested), runs that software, and walks away. No problem, right?
Although businesses have been tasked with addressing a number of remote assets associated with off-site resources such as a sales force that’s often mobile, the number of remote endpoints has grown exponentially. The laptops and mobile devices needed to facilitate working from home full-time for a large percentage of their workers given recent global events has exploded.
Organization’s today host a wide range of information that, due to its external value to competitors, nation-states, or cybercriminals, needs to be properly protected. The role of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is to establish and maintain the organizational strategy and execution to protect its sensitive and valuable information assets and surrounding technologies.
Even though SecTor had to be entirely online this year due to our unusual international circumstances, there have been plenty of excellent talks from many experienced cybersecurity professionals. The talks took place over the course of two days, October 21st and 22nd. Last time I covered the talks I attended on day one. Interestingly enough, the talks all had to do with threat detection and analysis. Maybe that’s just what I’m fixated on these days.
A common component of modern cybersecurity infrastructure, a cloud access security broker (CASB) is technology that provides monitoring and mitigates risks from employee use of cloud services. CASBs were initially developed to fill a gap in cloud security visibility left behind by traditional firewalls, next-generation firewalls, and early secure web gateways, which struggled to identify instances of the unapproved use of cloud services, otherwise known as shadow IT or rogue IT.
In times long gone, disgruntled former employees could only do so much damage to your company, and relatively little at all to your data security. In the fast-moving world of the 21st century, however, it’s a different story. Costly data breaches and devastating thefts have been undertaken in recent years by dissatisfied staff members released from their job duties.
