Prevention

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently made vulnerability and patch management a compliance standard for federal agencies. Given only 60 days to update these policies, many agencies have found it difficult to develop the necessary management programs. Your organization is probably not a federal agency, so you are not held to this new…

Without an endpoint configuration manager in place, your company’s deployed devices become an ever-growing convoluted network. Updates, compliance, and security vulnerabilities multiply rapidly. Progress slows as your IT team is bogged down with manual tasks that could have been automated. Furthermore, the IT and cybersecurity landscape continues to shift and change. Microsoft’s frequent updates make…

Do you care about your organization’s cybersecurity? Are you worried about the many looming, rapidly increasing threats? Businesses get attacked every 39 seconds. So you should be (at least a little) worried. Consider protecting your entire organization from  cyber attacks with an Extended Detection and Response (XDR) strategy. Remember, XDR is just good security. Originally…

The average data breach cost in 2022 is $9.44 million, according to a report by IBM. These reported data breaches are not slowing down. That means your organization’s need for Security Operations Center (SOC) services will increase in the near future. To complicate matters, a Ponemon Institute study reports security analysts’ salaries are going up,…

Even the tallest wall cannot block an intruder coming through an open door. The same can be said for your cybersecurity. Even if your organization has the most sophisticated security program—with extensive logging, detection mechanism, automated remediation protocols, and complex policies—none of those defense mechanisms can help you when a user makes a mistake and…

You may think that firewalls are a relic of a bygone era. Sure, you needed to set one up back when you were using a monitor the width of a watermelon. But now, in an era of checking your work email from your iPhone between tracking steps on your watch, the notion of a firewall…

When Uber got hacked this September, many people were shocked.  Yet to those of us in cybersecurity, the most shocking part wasn’t that the transportation technology giant got breached. Instead, we were surprised at how little damage the hacker did to them. Uber’s public-facing apps and services stayed up. Their customer data was not accessed….

If you’ve heard about the recent Uber breach, then you may be wondering just how safe your organization’s data actually is on all the cloud services you use. The fear is understandable. After all, Uber is a massive company, with more than 32,000 employees. Yet, a teenage hacker reportedly managed to infiltrate the company’s internal…