Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The dark web is a part of the internet that provides anonymous and secure communication channels that are not able to be found by search engines. Numerous criminal activities are carried out on the dark web, such as the trafficking of stolen personal information, illegal sales of weapons and the trafficking of drugs.

Limited data retention resulting from financial or technological constraints makes it hard for security teams to see the complete history of an attack. This lack of full context about a threat — or a potential threat — eventually catches up with organizations, leading to longer dwell times and increased risk of a breach.

Over the last decade, enterprises have accelerated the adoption of the cloud. According to the State of the Cloud report by Flexera, the average annual spend on cloud computing is over $62 million. As enterprises continue to invest in the cloud, AWS, the market leader in cloud computing, is growing at a rapid pace. The rise of cloud computing poses new challenges to enterprise IT. With each department migrating and managing their workloads in AWS, there is a proliferation of accounts, users and roles.

On August 4, 2022, Advanced – a major software provider for the UK’s National Health System (NHS) and other healthcare customers – suffered a ransomware attack from a group that is still unknown to the public. The attack disrupted NHS services including ambulance dispatch, appointment bookings, patient referrals and emergency prescriptions.

PCI DSS compliance ensures your customer’s credit card data is protected from hackers and compromise attempts. Though complying with this regulation isn’t easy, it is possible. To simplify this essential effort, we’ve compiled a checklist of the key security metrics that should be addressed to meet the compliance requirements of this critical information security standard.

NIST compliance is mandatory for any entity and service provider processing Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) on behalf of the US Federal Government. Given the substantial risk to national security if this sensitive data is exploited and the high potential of its compromise through supply chain attacks, the range of organizations expected to comply with this cybersecurity regulation is intentionally broad.

Microsoft continues to develop, update and improve features to monitor and prevent the execution of malicious code on the Windows opearting system. One of these features is AppLocker. This feature advances the functionality of software restriction policies and enables administrators to create rules to allow or deny applications from running based on their unique identities (e.g., files) and to specify which users or groups can run those applications.