Home improvement retailers like Home Depot and Lowes are interesting places. Inside a typical store, one can find everyone from a guy looking to replace a leaky pipe, a couple shopping for new appliances, or a large contractor picking up hundreds of pieces of sheetrock for a major project. Trustwave's Security Colony is the cybersecurity version of a home improvement store. Security Colony is essentially a self-help site.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict currently is ongoing and continues to escalate. Trustwave is on heightened alert, and we are actively monitoring malicious cyber activity associated with and adjacent to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
A critical part of improving a business’ cyber resilience is ensuring staff, including the executives and the board of directors, are all champions of promoting and driving awareness when it comes to cybersecurity. Many company do have this understanding, and one way to measure the importance organizations are placing on cybersecurity is by expenditures.
In this episode of the Trustwave CISO Bytes Podcast, host David Bishop, Chief Information Security Officer at Trustwave, sits down with Kory Daniels, Global Director, Cyber Defense Consulting at Trustwave, to discuss the Russia and Ukraine crisis, its impact on cybersecurity, and how organizations in operational technology, critical infrastructure and beyond can harden their cyber defenses against nation-state threats.
Trustwave security and engineering teams are on heightened alert and are actively monitoring malicious cyber activity associated with and adjacent to the escalating military conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Trustwave is working closely with its clients around the world to enhance cyber preparedness during this time.
I have seen quite a few articles of late proclaiming that a major cyberattack against Australia is imminent as a result of the ongoing situation in Ukraine, and in truth it's kind of riled me up a bit. The most recent announcements about Australia promising cyber support to Ukraine has increased speculation on this question.
There is more to implementing a successful cybersecurity training program than to task IT with the job or conduct a quick Internet search to find an outside vendor. In a day and age when an employee’s error can lead to a disastrous cyberattack, it is imperative organizations have a basic understanding of how to implement an awareness program that reaches all employees, is conducted at the correct pace by well-informed instructors and is helpful, informative, and not irritating.
It's somehow fitting that Groundhog Day and tax scam season overlap. Much like the 1993 Bill Murray film where he repeatedly experienced the same day, tax season scammers come out of their hole every year at the same time and tend to use the same attack methods against organizations and regular taxpayers. These scammers stick to these tried-and-true methods because they still work.
Ransomware continued to be the most significant cybersecurity threat facing critical infrastructure, healthcare, defense, and other industries, according to a report issued jointly on February 9 by law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies from the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.
This is the first in a series of blogs that will describe the importance of conducting Red and Purple Team exercises. The first entry in the series gives an overview of how to properly conduct these drills with follow on blogs diving deeper into the specifics of Red and Purple team maneuvers. The first realization most organizations have that their cybersecurity is, let's say, subpar generally comes right after it has been hit by a devastating attack.
