Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

As the volume and complexity of cyber threats continue to increase, security analysts face mounting pressure to protect their organizations from attack with maximum efficiency. Elastic Security 8.8 introduces features designed to help analysts digest, prioritize, and quickly respond to security incidents. These features include the following: Elastic Security 8.8 is available on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch offering to include all of the new features in this latest release.

Penetration testing is crucial to ensuring a resilient security posture within an organization. It simulates an attack on the system, application, or network to discover vulnerabilities before hackers do. Developers often use penetration testing to verify that applications’ internal resources are safe from unauthorized access. In this situation, the tester or ethical hacker serves as a malicious actor. They gather as much information about the system as possible to find exploitable weaknesses.

Data anonymization is becoming an increasingly prominent and important concept for businesses of all sizes. Whether it’s to protect customer data or satisfy regulatory requirements, data privacy remains a top priority for organizations worldwide.

On May 24th, the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NZ), United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) along with their private sector partners recently discovered a cluster of activity of interest associated with a People’s Republic of China

PayPal and Venmo are online platforms that let businesses and individuals send and receive payments. You can secure your PayPal or Venmo account by using a strong password, setting up Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and using other security features available. Since these accounts handle financial transactions and sensitive information, they are common targets for cyberattacks.