New Microsoft Security innovations expand multicloud visibility and enhance multiplatform protection

With more than 90 percent of organizations adopting a multicloud strategy1 and cloud-based cyberattacks growing 48 percent year over year,2 securing multicloud and hybrid environments is more important than ever. To successfully protect multicloud infrastructure—where customers are utilizing two ...

Resilient Security Requires Mature Cyber Threat Intelligence Capabilities

Resilient Security Requires Mature Cyber Threat Intelligence Capabilities By Trellix Advanced Research Center · August 5, 2023 Threat intelligence and the ability to add context to each technology environment to global threats has never been more important to the role of the CISO, or to the board...

Preventing Web Application Access Control Abuse

SUMMARY The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and U.S. National Security Agency NSA are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to warn vendors, designers, and developers of web applications and...

Close Security Gaps with Continuous Threat Exposure Management

CISOs, security leaders, and SOC teams often struggle with limited visibility into all connections made to their company-owned assets and networks. They are hindered by a lack of open-source intelligence and powerful technology required for proactive, continuous, and effective discovery and...

To Fight Cyber Extortion and Ransomware, Shift Left

How can organizations defend themselves more effectively against ransomware and other forms of cyber extortion? By “shifting left” and adopting proactive cybersecurity strategies to detect attacks sooner, mitigating breaches before they cause harm...

oeno.kork.ca Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3425630

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in the 2023 Enterprise Email Security Wave

In today’s rapidly evolving connected workplace, where hybrid and remote work are increasingly the norm, workplace productivity and communications tools like email and chat applications are more important than ever. However, cyberthreats continue to evolve with increasing capabilities and...

Detecting and mitigating a multi-stage AiTM phishing and BEC campaign

Microsoft Defender Experts uncovered a multi-stage adversary-in-the-middle AiTM phishing and business email compromise BEC attack against banking and financial services organizations. The attack originated from a compromised trusted vendor and transitioned into a series of AiTM attacks and...

Why a proactive detection and incident response plan is crucial for your organization

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 Matt Suiche, Director...

How Wazuh Improves IT Hygiene for Cyber Security Resilience

IT hygiene is a security best practice that ensures that digital assets in an organization's environment are secure and running properly. Good IT hygiene includes vulnerability management, security configuration assessments, maintaining asset and system inventories, and comprehensive visibility...

Rapid7 Recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™ for MDR, Q2 2023

Rapid7 recognized amongst the top MDR providers in the industry. As security teams try to do more with less, addressing the sprawling attack surface and monitoring the escalating threat and risk landscape, it inherently leaves them at a disadvantage. Rapid7 Managed Threat Complete empowers...

Why Honeytokens Are the Future of Intrusion Detection

A few weeks ago, the 32nd edition of RSA, one of the world's largest cybersecurity conferences, wrapped up in San Francisco. Among the highlights, Kevin Mandia, CEO of Mandiant at Google Cloud, presented a retrospective on the state of cybersecurity. During his keynote, Mandia stated: "There are...

How to Set Up a Threat Hunting and Threat Intelligence Program

Threat hunting is an essential component of your cybersecurity strategy. Whether you're getting started or in an advanced state, this article will help you ramp up your threat intelligence program. What is Threat Hunting? The cybersecurity industry is shifting from a reactive to a proactive...

How to Set Up a Threat Hunting and Threat Intelligence Program

Threat hunting is an essential component of your cybersecurity strategy. Whether you're getting started or in an advanced state, this article will help you ramp up your threat intelligence program. What is Threat Hunting? The cybersecurity industry is shifting from a reactive to a proactive...

To fight cyber extortion and ransomware, shift left

How can organizations defend themselves more effectively against ransomware and other forms of cyber extortion? By “shifting left” and adopting proactive cybersecurity strategies to detect attacks sooner, mitigating breaches before they cause harm...

Deloitte and Wiz Announce a Strategic Alliance to Help their Mutual Clients Accelerate Digital Transformation with a Modern Cloud Security Strategy

New alliance to enable organizations to proactively identify, prioritize, remediate, and prevent risks in their cloud...

Using Data Loss Prevention to Prevent Data Leakage via ChatGPT

Using Data Loss Prevention to Prevent Data Leakage via ChatGPT By Zak Krider · April 17, 2023 The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence AI technology has garnered much attention in recent weeks for its potential to enhance workplace productivity and efficiency. However, this focus on AI...

Western Digital confirms breach, affects My Cloud and SanDisk users

Western Digital, a big brand in digital storage, says it has suffered a "network security incident--potentially ransomware--which resulted in a breach and some system disruptions in its business operations. The company identified the incident on March 26 and said an unnamed third party unlawfully...

"It's The Service Accounts, Stupid": Why Do PAM Deployments Take (almost) Forever To Complete?

Privileged Access Management PAM solutions are regarded as the common practice to prevent identity threats to administrative accounts. In theory, the PAM concept makes absolute sense: place admin credentials in a vault, rotate their passwords, and closely monitor their sessions. However, the hars...

How an incident response retainer can drive proactive security

Weve written before about the importance of taking a proactive approach to cybersecurity. Whether it be threat hunting, an active defense posture or just improving security instrumentation alerts and logs an organization keeps, its best for every user -- no matter the size -- to be prepared for...