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5 Ways to Illuminate Your Attack Surface Blind Spots

How well do you know your organization’s attack surface? Chances are, you don’t know it as well as you think you do. According to a recent report, 2 out of 3 organizations say their external attack surface has expanded in the past 12 months, but that does not mean they’ve been keeping track of it.

Reducing Cybersecurity Risk for Local Government

The amount of data that municipalities deal with on an everyday basis has grown exponentially. In particular, local governments have focused on upping their cybersecurity efforts due to the sensitive information and data stored and shared with state and federal government programs. It is now more important than ever to ensure effective cybersecurity within local governments. In this blog, we will take a look at how your local government can reduce impending risks and secure innate vulnerabilities.

2 Ways Reduce the Likelihood of Getting Attacked

2 ways to make your security infrastructure better than 99% of companies: Start with a zero-trust architecture: Assume that the attackers are going to inevitably break-in. Design a system with zero-trust architecture. To do that, you must: You need to look at how you appear to hackers from outside. Today, with a click of a mouse, attackers can scan the entire Internet and find open ports from companies that are easy to break into.

Improving accuracy and value: Why Inviting Vendors is important

As most of our customers know, every single company – customer or not – gets free and unlimited access to their own company’s Scorecard. This view allows them to see the complete details of their scorecard and a high-level view of five other scorecards. SecurityScorecard provides this free access because we know that when companies engage with their scorecard, their scores improve, their attribution becomes more accurate, and our customers lower their own cyber risk.

Spring4Shell: 12 year old vulnerability springs back to life

On Thursday, March 31st a patch for a widely used Java framework called the Spring Framework was given the designation CVE-2022-22965 with a CVSS Score of 9.8. That’s bad news for a lot of companies that make use of this framework for delivery of their web applications, services and APIs. This is a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability and the ease of exploitation is partly why it has earned a 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS Score.

SecurityScorecard Analysis of Lapsus$ Threat Group

SecurityScorecard’s CISO Mike Wilkes and Threat Researcher Ryan Slaney discuss their latest insights on the Lapsus$ threat group, the recent Okta breach, and what CISOs should do to protect their organizations. SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over 12 million companies continuously rated. The company is headquartered in New York and operates in 64 countries around the globe.

Things to Remember While Scaling Your Business

Here are 2 things that helped us successfully scale SecurityScorecard: Having a customer-first mentality: You need to understand your customers deeply. You need to adopt Amazon’s empty-chair approach where the most important voice is the customers’ voice, not the CEOs’. Beginning with the right foundation: Here’s what most companies get wrong: When they start up and have 10-20 people, they focus on their customers.

Working with At-Risk Businesses: How It Can Dismantle Your Zero Trust Strategy

Nowadays, building a zero-trust network has become a standard protocol in the era of evolving business models, multiple workforce platforms, cloud adoption, and increased device connectivity. But, if a business continues to work with at-risk organizations, the zero-trust policy crumbles. Working with well-secured third parties that uphold a zero-trust strategy is crucial for optimal cybersecurity within any business.

Move aside, Conti, Lapsus$ coming through!

-In the hours after news broke that Lapsus$ claimed to have breached Okta, an enterprise identity and access management firm, SecurityScorecard’s Threat Research and Intelligence team conducted a rapid investigation into Lapsus$ to provide customers and partners with the very latest in actionable security intelligence and insights related to this emerging cybercrime group. -Lapsus$’s targets have quickly evolved from Brazilian and Portuguese organizations to high-profile U.S.

What Sets SecurityScorecard Apart!

According to Forrester and Gartner, we are the leader in the security rating space. 3 reasons why: Massive data set: We’ve rated 12 million organizations worldwide. If an organization is not on the data set, it takes us just a few minutes to rate it while our competitors take days to do the same. Huge marketplace of applications and services: We have 100s of partners that enrich the value of our platform.