Are ransomware-wielding criminals running scared? That's one likely explanation for the sudden release this week of free, master decryption keys for three different strains of formerly prevalent ransomware: Maze, Sekhmet and Egregor.
Despite what is reported in the news, many cyber incidents and cyberattacks are perpetrated by insiders, including employees, former employees, and contractors. Insider threats are particularly hard to guard against, especially when someone has legitimate access to your data. An insider threat program can help make...
Understanding and detecting insider threats, both malicious and negligent, is critical to securing your organization's data and IP. This white paper from Exterro provides useful best practices gleaned from organizations that have developed insider threat mitigation and prevention programs, giving you a head start on...
The security world continues its fight against potential widespread exploitation of the critical remote code execution vulnerability - tracked as CVE-2021-44229 - in Apache's Log4j software library, versions 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1, known as "Log4Shell" and "Logjam." This is a digest of ISMG's updates.
Organizations today need to rethink how cloud security not only drives stronger predictions, but adds value with ease of use. Learn how you can stop the most evasive attacks automatically with adaptive security.
In the midst of accelerated modernization, increased cybersecurity risks, and the new normal of hybrid work and learning environments, technology leaders in higher education have had to meet enormous challenges. As we enter the new year, what’s on their minds when it comes to issues of cybersecurity, hybrid...
Risk management is essential to the existence of every business. It requires organizations to consider which risks they can accept and which risks they can mitigate. But the problem with risk acceptance is that attackers are "actively looking for risks that you haven't mitigated that they're able to exploit," says...
Third-party risk management is a key priority among businesses today. Risk leaders are being forced to quickly adjust to an evolving risk landscape and a growing number of vendors. As a result, companies need an efficient way to handle their vendor management process.
The 2021 Global Workplace Report reveals that...
Third-party risk management is a key priority among businesses today. Risk leaders are being forced to quickly adjust to an evolving risk landscape and a growing number of vendors. As a result, companies need an efficient way to handle their vendor management process.
What are best-in-class organizations doing today...
Most organizations deploy defenses to reduce the risk of cyber threats entering their environment. But what about the threats that are already inside? Whether the result of malicious, negligent or compromised users, insider threats pose serious business risks, and most organizations just aren’t prepared.
Data breaches that stem from third parties, vendors, or contractors are on the rise. In fact, the increase in third-party data breaches is due to the industrialization of the cybercriminal ecosystem and innovations such as ransomware, which makes cybercrime much more profitable and easier to carry out. Our eBook...
As Russia masses troops on its border with Ukraine, the White House says Russian disinformation campaigns have been aimed at destabilizing Ukraine's government, while experts have seen a surge in "cyber intrusions" against infrastructure, banking and government targets in advance of a potential invasion.
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