Unencrypted Flying Objects: Security Lessons from University Small Satellite Developers and Their Code

Satellites face a multitude of security risks that set them apart from hardware on Earth. Small satellites may face additional challenges, as they are often developed on a budget and by amateur organizations or universities that do not consider security. We explore the security practices and...

Learn what an AI-driven future means for cybersecurity at Microsoft Secure

Maintaining security across today’s vast digital ecosystem is a team effort. AI and machine learning have helped to detect threats quickly and respond effectively. Yet we all know that the best defense still requires human wisdom and experience. From a frontline security operations admin to the...

Local government cybersecurity: 5 best practices

It seems like not a day goes by where we dont hear about a local government cyberattack. Indeed, from 911 call centers to public schools, cyberattacks on local governments are as common as they are devastating. Just how often do threat actors attack local governments? A survey of 14 mainly larger...

It’s Time to Prepare for a Rise in Insider Threats

Earlier this year, Tesla discovered that an employee had stolen more than 6,000 files containing sensitive code. The software engineer, who was only employed for two weeks, had been hired as one of the few people who could access these files. This incident highlights the danger that insider threa...

Replacing EDR/NGAV with Autonomous XDR Makes a Big Difference for Small Security Teams

The attack surface is virtually expanding before our eyes. Protecting assets across multiple locations, with multiple solutions from different vendors, has become a daily concern for CISOs globally. In a new e-book recently published download here, CISOs with small security teams talk about the...

5 Security Lessons for Small Security Teams for the Post COVID19 Era

A full-time mass work from home WFH workforce was once considered an extreme risk scenario that few risk or security professionals even bothered to think about. Unfortunately, within a single day, businesses worldwide had to face such a reality. Their 3-year long digital transformation strategy w...

Poor Password Security Led to Recent Water Treatment Facility Hack

New details have emerged about the remote computer intrusion at a Florida water treatment facility last Friday, highlighting a lack of adequate security measures needed to bulletproof critical infrastructure environments. The breach involved an unsuccessful attempt on the part of an adversary to...

New CISOs Survey Reveals How Small Cybersecurity Teams Can Confront 2021

The pressure on small to medium-sized enterprises to protect their organizations against cyberthreats is astronomical. These businesses face the same threats as the largest enterprises, experience the same relative damages and consequences when breaches occur as the largest enterprises but are...

Insider Report: Healthcare Security Woes Balloon in COVID-Era

In 2020, the healthcare industry began a massive shift, as legacy cybersecurity issues merged with new security challenges spurred on by the spread of COVID-19. Even before the pandemic, the medical arena wrestled with major cybersecurity challenges, including insecure medical devices, protecting...

$100K Paid Out for Google Cloud Shell Root Compromise

Google has awarded its inaugural annual top prize for the Google Cloud Platform GCP, for vulnerabilities found in the Google Cloud Shell. The find — a container escape that leads to host root access and the ability to use privileged containers — has earned $100,000 for Dutch researcher Wouter ter...

$100K Paid Out for Google Cloud Shell Root Compromise

Google has awarded its inaugural annual top prize for the Google Cloud Platform GCP, for vulnerabilities found in the Google Cloud Shell. The find — a container escape that leads to host root access and the ability to use privileged containers — has earned $100,000 for Dutch researcher Wouter ter...

Why managed service providers (MSP) are critical for business continuity

With the threat landscape becoming more hostile to businesses, small- and medium-sized businesses SMBs are often finding it difficult to cope. Hence, they turn to managed service providers MSPs for help, not only to keep their businesses going—the concept known as business continuity—but also to...

A Chief Security Concern for Executive Teams

Virtually all companies like to say they take their customers' privacy and security seriously, make it a top priority, blah blah. But you'd be forgiven if you couldn't tell this by studying the executive leadership page of each company's Web site. That's because very few of the world's biggest...

Physician, protect thyself: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure

In part one of our Physician, protect thyself series, we recognized significant security problems within the healthcare industry that need addressing. Health organizations moving from the paper to the 'puter—a shift meant to improve care and overall patient experience—inadvertently introduced...

Cyber threats a major risk to business

When it comes to security, small and midsize businesses are largely unaware of the risks they face. Cybercrime is a serious problem which affects businesses of all sizes and can have devastating consequences. U.S. small businesses should understand they cannot completely remain safe from...

Gathering Threat Intelligence With Open Tools

Threat intelligence is one of the go-to buzz phrases for many people in the security industry right now, and it’s thrown in so many contexts and situations, it’s quickly becoming almost meaningless. Most people understand that they need to get better information about what’s happening both on the...

Security Worth Buying

I’m a dirty vendor. That may not be the best way to start a serious dialogue about security product effectiveness, but I hate to read a post on security theory by some insincere tie-wearing wonk only to discover afterwards that he or she is Lord High Poobah of Marketing at “Scaring You For Profit...

Vulnerability showboating is for amateurs

It’s like one of those magic candles people place on birthday cakes that sparkle and relight themselves each time you think they’ve been blown out. That’s how I’d define the most recent ignition of the “bugs for cash” debate. By now you’ll have probably heard that Dino Dai Zovi, Charlie Miller an...