Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

When we think about cyberattacks and malicious hackers, we often think in terms of our own personal lives and our own organizations. In my experience in cybersecurity, I often hear people say “Why would hackers target me?

Web browsers and email clients are used to interact with external and internal assets. Both applications can be used as a point of entry within an organization. Users of these applications can be manipulated using social engineering attacks. A successful social engineering attack needs to convince users to interact with malicious content. A successful attack could give an attacker an entry point within an organization.

Third-party integrations are vital tools for expanding the capabilities of the Egnyte platform. Today, we’re excited to share a little more about how our partnership with Sumo Logic helps businesses get better, faster security insights from their data. Sumo Logic is an enterprise-grade, cloud-based service that collects, manages, and analyzes log data from all systems in the enterprise.

Banks continue to be a top target for cyber criminals. As we indicated in our blogpost on the risks to financial services networks, in 2020 alone there were more than 1,500 cyberattacks on banks, and in recent months, we’ve seen incidents such as the cyberattack on the New Zealand Federal Reserve and against the largest bank in Ecuador. Now, a new threat has emerged, and the main targets are Australian and German banks.

Rubrik can gracefully backup hosts with petabyte-scale filesystems containing around a billion files. It took us focused effort and innovation, both in scaling existing systems and verifying the changes work before shipping to our customers. One of the innovative systems that helped us achieve this scalability is the FileSystem Simulator.

The Biden Administration’s May 2021 Cybersecurity Executive Order (EO) emphasizes cybersecurity as a national priority. It represents a bold step towards concrete actions to strengthen national security and address increasingly sophisticated threats facing federal agencies and the entire digital ecosystem.

Most users are familiar with Microsoft Exchange Online only as an application for accessing their email inboxes. However, by default, all users also have access to a system called Exchange Online PowerShell. This feature, designed primarily to assist IT administrators, allows a user to programmatically perform actions on a Microsoft 365 (M365) tenant. The specific actions a user can perform depend entirely on the user’s assigned roles.

This October, as businesses emerge from the pandemic, many are making strategic decisions about their long-term work arrangements. While there is a substantial debate about remaining remote or bringing people back to the office, many companies are choosing to meet in the middle, embracing a hybrid work arrangement that allows people to work both on-site and remotely.

The adoption of agile practices has resulted in the emergence of shift-lift testing, where testing is performed much earlier in the Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC). Traditional waterfall models performed testing to the right of, or following, development. The benefits of testing earlier and more often cannot be underestimated. However, where does this leave security and security testing?