Learn How to Manage and Secure Active Directory Service Accounts

There are many different types of accounts in a typical Active Directory environment. These include user accounts, computer accounts, and a particular type of account called a service account. A service account is a special type of account that serves a specific purpose for services, and...

Learn How to Manage and Secure Active Directory Service Accounts

There are many different types of accounts in a typical Active Directory environment. These include user accounts, computer accounts, and a particular type of account called a service account. A service account is a special type of account that serves a specific purpose for services, and...

AppSec Bites: Top 3 Things to Consider When Maturing Your AppSec Programs (Part 2)

Maturing security programs along with the growth of development programs are essential to ensuring a safe and efficient development lifecycle. The need to be on top of development while scaling programs is imperative to managing both risk and business opportunities. However, it is during times of...

Telemed Poll Uncovers Biggest Risks and Best Practices

Healthcare organizations have gone virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic, just like the rest of us – with the use of telehealth services becoming the go-to format for med checks, routine consultations and therapist visits. But how safe are these services when it comes to patient data? In an...

Becoming resilient by understanding cybersecurity risks: Part 2

In part one of this blog series, we looked at how being resilient to cybersecurity threats is about understanding and managing the organizational impact from the evolution of human conflict that has existed since the dawn of humanity. In part two of this series, we further explore the imperative ...

Ransom from Home – How to close the cyber front door to remote working ransomware attacks

Coronavirus has caused a major shift to our working patterns. In many cases these will long outlast the pandemic. But working from home has its own risks. One is that you may invite ransomware attacks from a new breed of cyber-criminal who has previously confined his efforts to directly targeting...

Key Security Tips for Online Trading

By Waqas The same technology that makes online trading possible also opens traders up to potential cybersecurity risks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Key Security Tips for Online Trading...

Ships can’t be hacked. Wrong

I get a lot of objections from ships captains when discussing security flaws in ships, so I felt it worthwhile looking at these in some detail. The usual response is ‘ships can’t be hacked.’ When I dig further, what they usually seem to mean is that ‘processes aboard the bridge mean that the...

Smart Cars: Increasing Comfort — Reducing Security

By Uzair Amir Owners of advanced cars are always the target for cybercriminals... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Smart Cars: Increasing Comfort — Reducing Security...

CISA Launches “Cyber Essentials” for Small Businesses and Small SLTT Governments

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has launched Cyber Essentials, an effort to assist small organizations in understanding and addressing cybersecurity risks. Developed in partnership with small businesses and small state, local, tribal, and territorial SLTT governments,...

Answering IoT Security Questions for CISOs

Given the permeating nature of IoT and Industrial IoT devices in our daily lives, from smart homes to smart cities, one cannot escape the growing cybersecurity risks associated with these devices. It might leave CISOs with a lot of questions about how this newer, growing attack vector could impac...

5G and IoT: How to Approach the Security Implications

When it comes to the next generation of mobile networks, 5G promises a more Internet of Things-friendly ecosystem with vast improvements over the current capabilities of 4G – however, its intersection with IoT will also raise the stakes on cybersecurity. The benefits of 5G are myriad: Not only wi...

ThreatList: Remote Workers Threaten 1 in 3 Organizations

While IT leaders see the benefits of remote working and understand that millennial-friendly telecommuting is unlikely to go anywhere anytime soon, many still fear that the potential of employees to access corporate resources via public Wi-fi and the use of personal devices opens their organizatio...

App Security and PCI; Are you ready for the audit?

As most people know, merchants, financial institutions and anybody else who is involved in processing credit cards are subject to the PCI DSS compliance to reduce fraud and cybersecurity risks. This affects both brick-n-mortar stores and banks as well as card-not-present CNP transactions that...

ITV: New rules to prevent children’s ‘smart’ toys from being hacked

In the run up to Christmas we were asked by ITV's Chris Choi to demonstrate some of the security fails we see in kids toys all the time. We showed him our research on My Friend Cayla, and Tekstra Toucan amongst others, and made the point that while manufacturers need standards and codes of practi...

The Danger and Opportunity in 5G Connectivity and IoT

There is a lot of buzz building over fifth-generation mobile networks 5G and how they will revolutionize the fast-growing numbers of internet-connected devices — but what about security? What makes 5G so closely tied to billions of Internet of Things IoT devices is its speed 5G is expected to be ...

NIST Cybersecurity Framework Series Part 1: Identify

The National Institute of Standards and Technology created the Cybersecurity Framework NIST CSF four years ago under the Obama administration. Recently, the framework received added attention when President Donald Trump signed a cybersecurity executive order in May 2017, mandating that government...

Physician, protect thyself: healthcare cybersecurity circling the drain

No one knows you better than you do. But thanks to technology advances and the continued digitization of healthcare data accumulation and sharing processes, we can also honestly say the same about your healthcare provider. Indeed, every time we get in touch with a health professional, data is...

January 26, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Friday” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 26, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: New infosec products of...

January 19, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Puppies” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 19, 2018 - Headlines The Five Laws Of Cybersecurity - Forbes 3 things y...