Security Debt in Practice: Nuanced Insights from Practitioners

With the increasing reliance on software and automation nowadays, tight deadlines, limited resources, and prioritization of functionality over security can lead to insecure coding practices. When not handled properly, these constraints cause unaddressed security vulnerabilities to accumulate over...

Breaking down NOBELIUM’s latest early-stage toolset

As we reported in earlier blog posts, the threat actor NOBELIUM recently intensified an email-based attack that it has been operating and evolving since early 2021. We continue to monitor this active attack and intend to post additional details as they become available. In this blog, we highlight...

2021 Cybersecurity Outlook: Attackers vs. Defenders

COVID-19, One Year Later 2020 was undoubtedly a defining year for cybersecurity – a year that ended with the SolarWinds breach, which infiltrated US government agencies and organizations at a scale not seen in recent history. For cybersecurity professionals, the nature of this attack – a...

5 identity priorities for 2020

Today, Joy Chik, Corporate Vice President of Identity, shared five priorities central to security that organizations should prioritize in 2020 as they digitally transform. These priorities are based on many conversations with our customers, including: 1. Connect all applications and cloud resourc...

Download: The State of Breach Protection 2020 Survey Report

Cynet launched in December 2019 the State of Breach Protection 2020 Survey. Based on the responses from 1,536 individuals, they now share the survey report that includes common practices, priorities, and preferences of security leaders as they strive to secure their organization from a breach...

Critical infrastructure security still lagging

The interdependencies and interconnections of the networks that run the country’s critical infrastructure assets such as water, power and gas have created a dangerously fragile system in which security is just now becoming a priority, experts say. For years the priorities for these networks have...