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Resources for accelerating your Zero Trust journey
For many organizations, 2020 was the year that finally saw remote work become a reality on a global scale. As many people begin transitioning back to the office, many organizations are thinking about how they can transition from a remote workforce to a more permanent hybrid workplace. We recently...
Building SIEM for Today’s Threat Landscape
It’s easy to see how the changing security landscape has shaped the evolution of the security information and event management SIEM practice area — and how it continues to. But architecting an effective SIEM approach requires a well-thought-out strategy. A combination of security information...
Digital Transformation Usain Bolt-Style: Health Care's Sprint to Modernization
Instead of picking up their phone to schedule a doctor's visit, ring an insurance provider, or call the pharmacy, a patient's first step to getting care is now often the use of an app on their smartphone. There are new ways to order prescriptions, conduct appointments, seek care, and share health...
A Look Into Remote Onboarding at Rapid7
Picture this; you accept a new role and walk in on your first day with jitters. You swing the double doors open and are welcomed by the fresh scent of kombucha on tap and the buzz of office chatter. The front desk receptionist welcomes you with a warm “hello!” and a freshly brewed tea or coffee. ...
It’s Time to Prepare for a Rise in Insider Threats
Earlier this year, Tesla discovered that an employee had stolen more than 6,000 files containing sensitive code. The software engineer, who was only employed for two weeks, had been hired as one of the few people who could access these files. This incident highlights the danger that insider threa...
What a Year It’s Been: RSA 2021 Embraces ‘Resilience’
Clearly, the months since the world shut down in March of 2020 fomented a radical shift in how people work and live, and it’s brought a range of crises and challenges to bear across the spectrum of our lives. These profound changes and experiences were also felt in cybersecurity, bringing...
CISOs Struggle to Cope with Mounting Job Stress
The CISOs aren’t OK. A new survey showed the pandemic has ratcheted up job pressure to “extreme stress” levels among chief information security officers CISOs, and it’s left them grappling for coping mechanisms ranging from workouts to narcotics. OneLogin released the results of its survey of 250...
How a positive hybrid work culture can help you to mitigate insider risk
As Vasu Jakkal recently shared, we are operating in the most sophisticated threat landscape ever seen, and coupled with the next great disruption—hybrid work—security is more challenging than ever. Protecting from external threats is only one part of the challenge, though. You also must protect...
How a positive hybrid work culture can help you to mitigate insider risk
As Vasu Jakkal recently shared, we are operating in the most sophisticated threat landscape ever seen, and coupled with the next great disruption—hybrid work—security is more challenging than ever. Protecting from external threats is only one part of the challenge, though. You also must protect...
Top Challenges for Security Analytics and Operations, and How a Cloud-Based SIEM Can Help
As the attack surface continues to grow, the job of a security professional is getting exponentially more complicated. With the surge in remote work over the last year, this has only accelerated. To keep up and combat key security operations challenges, many organizations are making the move to t...
Five Critical Password Security Rules Your Employees Are Ignoring
Password security was a problem even before the advent of widespread remote work. So, what happened post-pandemic? Keeper Security’s Workplace Password Malpractice Report sought to find out. In February 2021, Keeper surveyed 1,000 employees in the U.S. about their work-related password habits — a...
Securing a new world of hybrid work: What to know and what to do
The cybersecurity landscape has fundamentally changed, as evidenced by large-scale, complex attacks like Nobelium, Hafnium, and more recently last week’s Colonial Pipeline attack, which signals that human-operated ransomware is on the rise. Hackers launch an average of 50 million password attacks...
Securing a new world of hybrid work: What to know and what to do
The cybersecurity landscape has fundamentally changed, as evidenced by large-scale, complex attacks like Nobelium, Hafnium, and more recently last week’s Colonial Pipeline attack, which signals that human-operated ransomware is on the rise. Hackers launch an average of 50 million password attacks...
How to secure your hybrid work world with a Zero Trust approach
We are operating in the most complex cybersecurity landscape we’ve ever seen. Sophisticated and determined attackers are the norm. And we all are preparing for the next great disruption—hybrid work. Security has never been more important, and as I shared in another Security blog today, it’s clear...
How to secure your hybrid work world with a Zero Trust approach
We are operating in the most complex cybersecurity landscape we’ve ever seen. Sophisticated and determined attackers are the norm. And we all are preparing for the next great disruption—hybrid work. Security has never been more important, and as I shared in another Security blog today, it’s clear...
Shifting Threats in a Changed World: Edge, IoT and Vaccine Fraud
Though it’s often hard to find group consensus, one thing everyone can agree on is a feeling of relief that we may be moving past the worst of the pandemic. While few want to look back on the darkest times, those months have continuing lessons to teach about cybersecurity. Like it or not, the...
Gartner names Microsoft a Leader in the 2021 Endpoint Protection Platforms Magic Quadrant
Our mission to empower defenders and protect and secure organizations has never been more important to us. Over the last year, our customers have faced unpredictable challenges and nearly overnight have had to quickly adapt in the face of a new hybrid work environment, evolving sophistication and...
Gartner names Microsoft a Leader in the 2021 Endpoint Protection Platforms Magic Quadrant
Our mission to empower defenders and protect and secure organizations has never been more important to us. Over the last year, our customers have faced unpredictable challenges and nearly overnight have had to quickly adapt in the face of a new hybrid work environment, evolving sophistication and...
Fintech Startup Offers $500 for Payroll Passwords
How much is your payroll data worth? Probably a lot more than you think. One financial startup thats targeting the gig worker market is offering up to $500 to anyone willing to hand over the payroll account username and password given to them by their employer, plus a regular payment for each mon...
What does Zero Trust mean for API security?
The old mentality of building a moat around important assets and trusting anyone or anything that is already inside the castle perimeter has failed us. Attackers have developed many techniques to jump the moat and scale the castle walls to get at what they want. Thus, the new rallying cry is to...