Cloud Attacks Are Bypassing MFA, Feds Warn

The Feds are warning that cybercriminals are bypassing multi-factor authentication MFA and successfully attacking cloud services at various U.S. organizations. According to an alert issued Wednesday by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, there have been “several recent...

A Look Ahead at 2021: SolarWinds Fallout and Shifting CISO Budgets

The new year started off with a bang, with the SolarWinds hack revealed in late December acting as a jarring reminder to companies and U.S. government departments alike that cybercriminals continue to successfully exploit security lapses in technology. But beyond the SolarWinds supply-chain...

How COVID-19 Reinforced the Need for Mobile Device Management

How many of you got that call at the beginning of the pandemic to make your company’s workforce 100% capable for remote work? How many of you had no idea how to make that happen, seemingly and sometimes literally overnight? How many of you were already prepared for such an event? Remote workforce...

VPN usage is increasing, says December 2020 survey

I won’t reveal my mom’s exact age, but she’s in her late 60s. Other than her phone, my mom doesn’t own or use a computer—but she knows what Zoom is. Not since “Kleenex” has a brand become so pervasive that people use the brand name as a generic term for the product. For my mom, any kind of video...

Predicting the Unpredictable: What Will the Cybersecurity Space Look Like in 2021?

Not to start off another blog post about how insane this year has been, but let’s just take a moment to appreciate HOW INSANE THIS YEAR HAS BEEN. As I sat down to write this blog post, I took a look at last year’s predictions post and was amused to see how little we knew about what was coming. An...

Evaluating Our Core Principles

Reflecting on the past year led me to put together this post about how I believe this incredibly challenging year has had an irreversible effect on the way the workforce will collaborate, innovate, and do business in the future. The COVID-19 pandemic emerged at the beginning of 2020 and led to ne...

2020 Work-for-Home Shift: What We Learned

Goodbye, 2020 — and good riddance, right? Most of us don’t want to take too much from this year into the next — but let’s make an exception for what we learned about security in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 after all, more enterprises will permanently downsize their physical spaces...

Top Security Recommendations for 2021

Happy HaXmas! We hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season so far. This year has been wild and unpredictable, and has brought unique risks and threats to the forefront of business activities. So, to help everyone stay safer in 2021, the Strategic Advisory Services team here at Rapid7 is...

A breakthrough year for passwordless technology

As 2020 draws to a close, most of us are looking forward to putting this year in the rearview mirror. Since we depend even more on getting online for everything in our lives, we’re more than ready to be done with passwords. Passwords are a hassle to use, and they present security risks for users...

Code42 Incydr Series: Bringing Shadow IT into the light with Code42 Incydr

Shadow IT is hardly a hidden threat to security professionals. Gartner was warning, way back in 2016, that 1 in 3 successful attacks experienced by enterprises would come from the use of unsanctioned apps by 2020. Code42’s Data Exposure Report just about proves Gartner’s prediction, showing that...

Terranova Security Gone Phishing Tournament reveals continued weak spot in cybersecurity

The Terranova Security annual Gone Phishing Tournament wrapped up in October 2020, spanning 98 countries and industries including healthcare, consumer goods, transport, energy, IT, finance, education, manufacturing, and more. Using templates created from actual phishing attacks created by Microso...

Terranova Security Gone Phishing Tournament reveals continued weak spot in cybersecurity

The Terranova Security annual Gone Phishing Tournament wrapped up in October 2020, spanning 98 countries and industries including healthcare, consumer goods, transport, energy, IT, finance, education, manufacturing, and more. Using templates created from actual phishing attacks created by Microso...

Ex-Cisco Employee Convicted for Deleting 16K Webex Accounts

A man has been sentenced to two years in jail after being convicted of hacking Cisco’s Webex collaboration platform in an insider-threat case brought to the U.S. District Court in California. Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh, 31, admitted that he broke into Cisco’s cloud infrastructure in 2018, hosted on...

New cloud-native breadth threat protection capabilities in Azure Defender

As the world adapts to working remotely, the threat landscape is constantly evolving, and security teams struggle to protect workloads with multiple solutions that are often not well integrated nor comprehensive enough. This results in serious threats avoiding detection, as well as security teams...

New cloud-native breadth threat protection capabilities in Azure Defender

As the world adapts to working remotely, the threat landscape is constantly evolving, and security teams struggle to protect workloads with multiple solutions that are often not well integrated nor comprehensive enough. This results in serious threats avoiding detection, as well as security teams...

The story of the year: remote work

The coronavirus pandemic has caused sudden, sweeping change around the world. The necessary social distancing measures are having an impact on all of us. One large part of society that has been affected by these measures more than others is the employed. While direct customer facing businesses li...

Building a Zero Trust business plan

These past six months have been a remarkable time of transformation for many IT organizations. With the forced shift to remote work, IT professionals have had to act quickly to ensure people continue working productively from home—in some cases bringing entire organizations online over a weekend...

Building a Zero Trust business plan

These past six months have been a remarkable time of transformation for many IT organizations. With the forced shift to remote work, IT professionals have had to act quickly to ensure people continue working productively from home—in some cases bringing entire organizations online over a weekend...

The Remote-Work Transition Shifts Demand for Cyber Skills

The mass migration to remote working has forced chief information security officers to rethink what “secure” means and to re-prioritize the skillsets needed within their information-security teams. This creates challenges for companies — but also creates wide-open opportunities for those willing ...

WARNING — Critical Remote Hacking Flaws Affect D-Link VPN Routers

Some widely sold D-Link VPN router models have been found vulnerable to three new high-risk security vulnerabilities, leaving millions of home and business networks open to cyberattacks—even if they are secured with a strong password. Discovered by researchers at Digital Defense, the three securi...