Proactive Malware Threat Management: A How-To Guide

Trying to defend against every potential malware attack is like trying to boil the ocean. You can’t be everywhere at once, and treating every vulnerability as a top priority is a surefire way to burn out your team. The old way of reacting to every alert simply doesn't scale. A modern defense...

4 Ways to Keep MFA From Becoming too Much of a Good Thing

Multi-factor authentication MFA has quickly become the standard for securing business accounts. Once a niche security measure, adoption is on the rise across industries. But while it's undeniably effective at keeping bad actors out, the implementation of MFA solutions can be a tangled mess of...

10 Non-tech things you wish you had done after being breached

TL;DR Non-tech aspects to breach follow-up are often overlooked but essential NDAs, supply chain, and third party contracts and obligations should be reviewed Reviewing communication protocols and employee training increases resilience Looking after, and retaining your people improves recovery fo...

Webinar: How to Protect Your Company from GenAI Data Leakage Without Losing It's Productivity Benefits

GenAI has become a table stakes tool for employees, due to the productivity gains and innovative capabilities it offers. Developers use it to write code, finance teams use it to analyze reports, and sales teams create customer emails and assets. Yet, these capabilities are exactly the ones that...

Ever Wonder How Hackers Really Steal Passwords? Discover Their Tactics in This Webinar

In today's digital age, passwords serve as the keys to our most sensitive information, from social media accounts to banking and business systems. This immense power brings with it significant responsibility—and vulnerability. Most people don't realize their credentials have been compromised unti...

The Business of Cybersecurity Ownership

Who exactly owns cybersecurity in your organisation? Authored by Sean Vogelenzang Many would say the answer is obvious. It’s the chief information security officer CISO and his or her team, of course. However, it’s not that simple. Sure, the CISO and their team are responsible for setting the...

How to recognize AI-generated phishing mails

Phishing is the art of sending an email with the aim of getting users to open a malicious file or click on a link to then steal credentials. But most phishers arent very good, and the success rate is relatively low: In 2021, the average click rate for a phishing campaign was 17.8%. However, now...

How to build stronger security teams

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Truesec Chief Chaos...

The 5 Cornerstones for an Effective Cyber Security Awareness Training

It's not news that phishing attacks are getting more complex and happening more often. This year alone, APWG reported a record-breaking total of 1,097,811 phishing attacks. These attacks continue to target organizations and individuals to gain their sensitive information. The hard news: they're...

Mind the Gap – How to Ensure Your Vulnerability Detection Methods are up to Scratch — The Hacker News

With global cybercrime costs expected to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, it comes as little surprise that the risk of attack is companies' biggest concern globally. To help businesses uncover and fix the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations affecting their systems, there is an overabundan...

Securing your IoT with Edge Secured-core devices

A recent study conducted by Microsoft in partnership with Ponemon Institute included a survey of companies that have adopted IoT solutions and 65 percent of them mentioned that security is a top priority when implementing IoT. Attacks targeting IoT devices put businesses at risk. Impacted devices...

Microsoft best practices for managing IoT security concerns

The Internet of Things, or IoT, has expanded beyond the mere concept that it was when first introduced. IoT is now part of most individuals’ daily activities, from smart speakers and thermostats to smartwatches and vehicles. IoT devices and systems bring massive convenience and functionality. IoT...

5 security lessons from 18 months of working from home

A little more than 20 months ago, many people around the world were asked or instructed to work from home to help slow the spread of COVID-19. It caused a seismic change to the way we all do business. Now, our latest research reveals how IT decision makers security concerns have been changed by...

Podcast: 67% of Orgs Have Been Hit by Ransomware at Least Once

A recent report found that two-thirds, or 67 percent, of surveyed organizations have suffered a ransomware attack, about half have been hit multiple times, and 16 percent have been hit three or more times. According to Fortinet’s Global State of Ransomware Report 2021 PDF, released last week, mos...

5 Tips to Prevent and Mitigate Ransomware Attacks

Ransomware attacks cost companies over $100 billion a year. Making matters worse, the overwhelming majority of ransomware attacks now include a threat to leak stolen data if the ransom isn’t paid, a technique called “double extortion.” Cybercriminals like ransomware because the entry barrier is...

Phishing: Holiday Season Attacks on the Rise

Overview Phishing continues to be a major attack vector, and it's surprising just how many security incidents and breaches start with an employee clicking on a link in a carefully crafted phishing email and sometimes doing the same with a not-so-well crafted phishing email -- see this example...

vCISO Shares Most Common Risks Faced by Companies With Small Security Teams

Most companies with small security teams face the same issues. They have inadequate budgets, inadequate staff, and inadequate skills to face today's onslaught of sophisticated cyberthreats. Many of these companies turn to virtual CISOs vCISOs to provide security expertise and guidance. vCISOs are...

Importance of Application Security and Customer Data Protection to a Startup

When you are a startup, there are umpteen things that demand your attention. You must give your hundred percent probably even more! to work effectively and efficiently with the limited resources. Understandably, the application security importance may be pushed at the bottom of your things-to-do...

Are employees the weakest link in your security strategy? Train them!

Email is the number one threat vector. There’s no exception, even with a global pandemic, on the contrary: COVID-19 has been used as an appealing hook by cyber criminals. Data from Trend Micro Smart Protection Network shows that for the first five months of 2020, 92 per cent of all the cyber...

Facebook's FTC-Mandated Privacy Committee Now in Effect

Facebook on Thursday said it has started to report its privacy practices to a newly formed, independent Privacy Committee. The creation of the independent committee was part of the company’s settlement a year ago with the Federal Trade Commission FTC over data privacy violations, which came in...