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New York Department of Financial Services Modernizes Regulatory Oversight through Establishing First-of-its-Kind Use Case with SecurityScorecard

New York DFS is working with SecurityScorecard to further support the department’s first-in-the-nation cybersecurity efforts to modernize its supervision process. The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) is now working with SecurityScorecard to modernize its approach toward regulatory oversight.

What Elon Musk Taught Me About Scaling a Company

About 5-6 years ago, I was privileged to meet Elon Musk. Here’s what he told me: As your company gets bigger, you need to create deliberate channels for communication. The communication should not just flow top-down hierarchically, where an employee talks to their direct reports, they talk to their manager, and then to the next one. You need to create the path for the shortest communication by making yourself available to various employees within the company.

How Big is Your Attack Surface? - The So What About Third Party Vendors

Your organization’s attack surface can be a tricky thing to monitor. In our connected world, it seems like your attack surface is always expanding. That’s probably true. Attack surface expansion has exploded, driven by cloud adoption, the use of SaaS (software as a service) tools, and the fact that so many organizations have come to rely on third-party vendors.

Potential Abuse of Self-Signed Certificate IP Attribution Leads to Malicious Score Drop

In 2020, SecurityScorecard uncovered a case in which self-signed certificates caused misattributions for CDN IPs, and IPs shared by many websites. At the time, we mitigated this issue by labeling CDNs (e.g. Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, etc.), so that customers could easily determine if their scoring problems were related to shared IPs.

How We Empower Your Post-Breach Actions

Here’s what you need to do immediately when a cybersecurity incident occurs: At SecurityScorecard, we’ve recently introduced our Digital Forensics Incident Response service. In case of an emergency, we can come on-site and help the company figure out what's happening and how to contain the crisis. It's valuable to us because now, in addition to providing scores and threat intelligence, we also have a service to help organizations become safer.

Shifting to Holistic Risk Management with Cyber Risk Quantification

As malicious attackers and nation states have increasingly weaponized the cyber domain to impact private companies, the sustainability of organizations' ties to their cybersecurity is in question across all industries and sectors. There are many examples of companies going out of business as a result of a cyber attack, due to business leaders failing to wrap their arms around all the different ways that the ever evolving cyber threat landscape can impact their business.

How Your Cybersecurity Score Impacts Your Stock Price

Your cybersecurity score impacts your stock price. Here’s how: The value of a company’s stock is based on trust. Investors need to trust that the company will perform well, sustain its competitive advantage, and protect its customers’ information. When a company gets hacked, it betrays that trust, influencing its credibility. We have seen the stock price of Equifax, SolarWinds, etc., drop after they suffered data breaches.

Incredibly simple...yet effective. Zhadnost botnet relies on Open Proxies and DNS Resolvers.

As mentioned in SecurityScorecard’s (SSC) previous Zhadnost blog posts (part one and part two), the DDoS attacks against Ukrainian and Finnish websites do not appear to have a lasting impact, as the sites were back online within hours of the attack.

The Caller is Coming from Inside the House!

SecurityScorecard’s own Ondrej Krehel talks with News 12 in New York about how to protect yourself from what might be the most surreal spam number of all—your own. Most of us are used to getting spam texts: You’ve paid your bill, click this link for a free gift! You’ve won the sweepstakes, click here to redeem! It’s no surprise that nothing good comes from clicking those links.