Working From Home. So Far, So Much Learned.

Hello all! I'm Nicole Fitzpatrick, Deputy General Counsel at Akamai. I also sit on the D&I Executive Steering Committee. Normally I'd be in our Cambridge office about now, but like so many of us I am working from home and writing this surrounded by four kids, the dog and my husband not written in...

Cybersecurity Needs to Go Back to the Basics

This is part of our ongoing conversation about the worldwide challenges of working remotely. To stay up-to-date on the latest insights, refer to our live page for COVID-19: Cybersecurity Community Resources. This piece was co-authored with support from Optiv. Security teams have spent decades...

This Week in Security News: 7 Tips for Security Pros Patching in a Pandemic and Coinminer, DDoS Bot Attack Docker Daemon Ports

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, read about a malicious cryptocurrency miner and Distributed Denial of Service DDoS bot that targets open Docker daemon ports. Also, learn...

Housemates. The new Red Team?

You have the VPN set up, you have 2FA, you have a good enforced password policy, firewalls are in place, you even managed to squeeze in some remote training to make employees more aware of potential phishing. You stop, breathe a sigh of relief, and then think… I've no idea who my employees live...

VPN Concerns with Unplanned Remote Employees

The volume of employees working from home is steadily increasing, especially as local recruiting limits the number of skilled people. This along with the current state of coronavirus means that throughout the world, spikes in work-from-home policies are putting pressure on IT teams to scale virtu...

Tips for Securing Remote Work from Homes to Corporate Networks

On a recent webinar, Ryan Murphy, a founding team member of VMware Carbon Black, interviewed Cybersecurity Strategists, Tom Kellerman and Rick McElroy on how to work remotely, yet securely. What resulted were some fantastic tips on how to secure remote work access from their homes to the corporat...

Download: 'Coronavirus Cyber Security for Management' Template for CISOs

The Coronavirus crisis introduces critical operational challenges to business continuity, placing high stress on organizations' management. As a result, CIOs and CISOs face a double challenge on the cyber risk front – apart from the new risks that the mass transfer of employees working remotely...

Download: 'Coronavirus Cyber Security for Management' Template for CISOs

The Coronavirus crisis introduces critical operational challenges to business continuity, placing high stress on organizations' management. As a result, CIOs and CISOs face a double challenge on the cyber risk front – apart from the new risks that the mass transfer of employees working remotely...

Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3c: A day in the life part 2

This is the sixth blog in the Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC series designed to share our approach and experience from the front lines of our security operations center SOC protecting Microsoft and our Detection and Response Team DART helping our customers with their incidents. For a visu...

Secure Your Azure Active Directory Domain Controllers

Working from home has become the new norm. In this article, we dive into why it is time to part ways with your on-premises domain controllers, get your devices registered to the Microsoft® Azure®, and enable a secure work from home environment...

Microsoft Teams Impersonation Attacks Flood Inboxes

A convincing cyberattack that impersonates notifications from Microsoft Teams in order to steal the Office 365 credentials of employees is making the rounds, according to researchers. Two separate attacks have targeted as many as 50,000 different Teams users, according to findings from Abnormal...

Data governance matters now more than ever

Knowing, protecting, and governing your organizational data is critical to adhere to regulations and meet security and privacy needs. Arguably, that’s never been truer than it is today as we face these unprecedented health and economic circumstances. To help organizations to navigate privacy duri...

Cato SDP: Cloud-Scale and Global Remote Access Solution Review

The Scouts acknowledged the necessity to "Be Prepared" over 100 years ! ago; the industry should have, as well. Yet COVID-19 took businesses – more like the entire world – by surprise. Very few were prepared for the explosion of remote access, and the challenge of instantly shifting an entire...

VPNs are mainstream, which is good news

Virtual private networks VPNs have been growing in popularity for the last three years, a notable trend revealed in a collaborative report PDF by Top10VPN and GlobalWebIndex. This year is no different. When a majority of the world’s internet users are in isolation due to the COVID-19 global...

Enterprise Security Woes Explode with Home Networks in the Mix

The work-from-home WFH paradigm that has become the new normal in the age of coronavirus comes with exacerbated network security risk – as evidenced by growing a number of botnets and automated attacks that are taking advantage of known vulnerabilities in both consumer and corporate IT gear. The...

Ransomware groups continue to target healthcare, critical services; here’s how to reduce risk

At a time when remote work is becoming universal and the strain on SecOps, especially in healthcare and critical industries, has never been higher, ransomware actors are unrelenting, continuing their normal operations. Multiple ransomware groups that have been accumulating access and maintaining...

Enabling Workforce Productivity in Challenging Times

As the world shifts to an increasingly virtual environment, Akamai continues to be at the forefront of helping customers enable workforce productivity with Akamai's Enterprise Application Access and Enterprise Threat Protector. From our detailed offer to our recent Edge Live Virtual Summit, where...

Residential Internet Connections are now Business Connections: What about Security and Compliance?

Near-global mandates to stay at home have completely reshaped the internet security landscape. Remote work is the new normal, inverting the traditional office model. Attackers are not relenting as they see opportunity to take advantage of a world with a singular focus. Here are a couple of recent...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite Universal Work Queue

Oracle E-Business Suite E-Business Suite is the United States Oracle Oracle company's set of fully integrated global business management software. The software provides customer relationship management, service management, financial management, etc. Universal Work Queue is one of the tools that c...

Amid COVID-19, Global Orgs See a 148% Spike in Ransomware Attacks; Finance Industry Heavily Targeted

Cyber criminals often exploit fear and uncertainty during major world events by launching cyberattacks. These attacks are often performed with social engineering campaigns leveraging malicious emails that lure victims to install malware that steals financial data and other valuable personal...