IoT security: how Microsoft protects Azure Datacenters

Azure Sphere first entered the IoT Security market in 2018 with a clear mission—to empower every organization on the planet to connect and create secure and trustworthy IoT devices. Security is the foundation for durable innovation and business resilience. Every industry investing in IoT must...

Use This Ultimate Template to Plan and Monitor Your Cybersecurity Budgets

Sound security budget planning and execution are essential for CIO's/CISO's success. Now, for the first time, the Ultimate Security Budget Plan and Track Excel template download here provide security executives a clear and intuitive tool to keep track of planned vs. actual spend, ensuring that...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: 2020 in Retrospect

For cyber defenders worldwide, 2020 has been unprecedented year. CISOs and their security teams have battled increased attack volumes and data breaches as malicious actors seized the opportunity to exploit the disruption caused by the global pandemic. Cybercriminals are now deploying a wide range...

The value of cybersecurity integration for MSPs

For modern Managed Service Providers MSPs, gone are the days of disparate workflows, and that’s really for the best. Imagine trying to run a successful MSP business today—finding potential customers, procuring new clients, developing purchase orders, managing endpoints, and sending invoices—all...

DDoS Extortion Examination

In terms of the Distributed Denial of Service DDoS landscape, 2020 was almost boring prior to the beginning of August. The excitement from the record peak Gbps and Mpps seen in early summer had worn off, and we weren't seeing...

The vulnerability of the SAP Landscape Management automation system and the installation of SAP Adaptive Extensions, due to deficiencies in access control, allows attackers to elevate their privileges to the root level.

The vulnerability of the SAP Landscape Management automation system and the installation of SAP Adaptive Extensions is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to elevate their privileges to the root level...

Live from VMworld 2020: A Spotlight on Cybersecurity Awareness Month

Cybersecurity is no longer a buzzword. It is now a concern for businesses, government entities, consumers — for anyone who relies on the internet in our increasingly digital world. Earlier this year, the FBI reported a 400% increase in cybercrime1, a stark reality that has been exacerbated by the...

Microsoft delivers unified SIEM and XDR to modernize security operations

The threat landscape continues to increase in both complexity and the level of sophistication of the attacks we observe. Attackers target the most vulnerable resources in an organization and then traverse laterally to target high-value assets. No longer can you expect to stay safe by protecting...

Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 1: A Changing Landscape for Securing Users

In recent years, new enterprise remote access architectures and frameworks have been introduced, such as Zero Trust Access ZTA. Those concepts have driven changes in the way the network perimeter has been defined -- specifically, from the outside in, not the inside out. Access to applications and...

1H 2020 Cyber Security Defined by Covid-19 Pandemic

When we published our 2020 Predictions report in December, we didn’t realize there was a global pandemic brewing that would give cybercriminals an almost daily news cycle to take advantage of in their attacks against people and organizations around the world. Malicious actors have always taken...

Quarterly Report: Incident Response trends in Summer 2020

By David Liebenberg and Caitlin Huey. For the fifth quarter in a row, Cisco Talos Incident Response CTIR observed ransomware dominating the threat landscape. Infections involved a wide variety of malware families including Ryuk, Maze, LockBit, and Netwalker, among others. In a continuation of...

Imperva mitigates largest DDoS attacks of 2020… so far…

The word “unprecedented” has never been used so much as it has during 2020. And in the latest of many unprecedented events, July saw the two largest recorded DDoS attacks of the year so far. As revealed in our July 2020 Cyber Threat Index Report, published today, Imperva Research Labs recorded tw...

New Global Threat Landscape Report Reveals 'Unprecedented' Cyberattacks

A newly released threat report, tracking the biggest trends in the cybercriminal landscape, shows that attackers have been capitalizing on the global pandemic in various ways – from ransomware to web-based malware. Derek Manky Derek Manky, Chief, Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at...

The Future of Security: Lessons from Black Hat USA

For the last 23 years, Black Hat has been the world’s leading information security event where attendees are able to experience the latest security research, development, and trends. While 2020 marks the first year that Black Hat will be virtual, it does not limit the level of engaging content th...

How COVID-19 Has Changed Business Cybersecurity Priorities Forever

For much of this year, IT professionals all over the globe have had their hands full, finding ways to help businesses cope with the fallout of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases, it involved a rapid rollout of significant remote work infrastructure. That infrastructure was called in...

Adversarial use of current events as lures

By Nick Biasini. The goal of malicious activity is to compromise the system to install some unauthorized software. Increasingly that goal is tied to one thing: the user. Over the past several years, we as an industry improved exploit mitigation and the value of working exploits has increased...

Empower your analysts to reduce burnout in your security operations center

Effective cybersecurity starts with a skilled and empowered team. In a world with more remote workers and an evolving threat landscape, you need creative problem solvers defending your organization. Unfortunately, many traditional security organizations operate in a way that discourages growth,...

How exposed are you to cybercrime?

No country, business, or person is immune to cybercrime, and as the Internets influence on our daily lives grows exponentially, so will the level of malicious activity throughout the world. An ever-changing cyber landscape will always carry with it new threats, but are they the same for everyone?...

The Streaming Wars: A Cybercriminal’s Perspective

Cyberthreats are not relegated to the world of big businesses and large-scale campaigns. The most frequent attacks are not APTs and massive data breaches: they are the daily encounters with malware and spam by common users. And, one of the areas where we are most vulnerable is...

News Wrap: Malicious Chrome Extensions Removed, CIA 'Woefully Lax' Security Policies Bashed

For the week ended June 19, Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell Welch, Tom Spring and Tara Seals break down the top cybersecurity stories. This week’s top news stories include: Google removing 106 Chrome browser extensions from its Chrome Web Store in response to a report that they were being us...