Identity at Microsoft Ignite: Strengthening Zero Trust defenses in the era of hybrid work

We’re now a year into our new reality, and two trends stand out. First, people need even more flexibility as we work, learn, and collaborate in a world without perimeters. And second, bad actors are getting even more sophisticated. They’re adding new attack vectors and combining them in new...

Securing and governing data in a new hybrid work reality

The past year has led to an evolution in not only how we think about work, but more importantly, where work gets done. Arguably, gone are the days that your organization’s data is limited to the protected confines of your corporate network as your people continue to work remotely, return in some...

Why do companies fail to stop breaches despite soaring IT security investment?

Let's first take a look back at 2020! Adding to the list of difficulties that surfaced last year, 2020 was also grim for personal data protection, as it has marked a new record number of leaked credentials and PI data. A whopping 20 billion records were stolen in a single year, increasing 66% fro...

5 Security Lessons for Small Security Teams for the Post COVID19 Era

A full-time mass work from home WFH workforce was once considered an extreme risk scenario that few risk or security professionals even bothered to think about. Unfortunately, within a single day, businesses worldwide had to face such a reality. Their 3-year long digital transformation strategy w...

How to Fight Business Email Compromise (BEC) with Email Authentication?

An ever-evolving and rampant form of cybercrime that targets emails as the potential medium to conduct fraud is known as Business Email Compromise. Targeting commercial, government as well as non-profit organizations, BEC can lead to huge amounts of data loss, security breach, and compromised...

Take the Full-Stack Approach to Securing Your Modern Attack Surface

A growing remote-work culture demands a graduation in the approach to security. It’s time to test, monitor, secure, and extend to the application layer. A modern methodology for vulnerability management VM is vital for organizations looking to minimize attack surfaces by prioritizing potential...

The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Widening the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

While there are undoubtedly many major challenges within the world of cybersecurity, one of the principal roadblocks to the implementation of effective data security is the lack of skilled cybersecurity practitioners. In a November 2019 report, the International Information System Security...

Why More Teams are Shifting Security Analytics to the Cloud This Year

As the threat landscape continues to evolve in size and complexity, so does the security skills and resource gap, leaving organizations both understaffed and overwhelmed. An ESG study found that 63% of organizations say security is more difficult than it was two years ago. Teams cite the growing...

RDP, the ransomware problem that won’t go away

The year 2020 will certainly be remembered as one of the most difficult and tragic years humankind has faced in modern times. The global pandemic changed the way we live and work in ways unimaginable, perhaps forever. It also altered the cybersecurity landscape dramatically. The FBI reported a 30...

How Email Attacks are Evolving in 2021

Hundreds of thousands of dollars lost. Financial and emotional ruin. And in some cases, suicide. These are some of the outcomes business email compromise BEC attacks have on victims, said Ronnie Tokazowski, senior threat researcher with Agari. These type of attacks don’t garner the same attention...

Informational: Impact of Python Test Suite Vulnerability CVE-2020-27619

The Palo Alto Networks Product Security Assurance team evaluated the Python test suite vulnerability CVE-2020-27619. There are no scenarios that enable successful exploitation of the vulnerability in Cortex XSOAR or PAN-OS software. No product release contains the Python test suite that is...

The time for Insider Risk Management is now: Code42 2021 Data Exposure Report Reveals a Perfect Storm

We all knew the overnight shift to remote work and cloud-based productivity and collaboration would dramatically change the Insider Risk landscape. But now, with nearly a year of data to look at, the Code42 2021 Data Exposure Report DER shows that the impact is pretty staggering: Employees are 85...

Akamai's Internship Program in Krakow

The beginning of a new year is a time to look back and reflect on the previous one. December 31st is also the end date of our annual Krakow Internship Program. Last year's intake was very unique due to the pandemic and the shift towards a remote work environment. Akamai was fortunate to be able t...

Why threat protection is critical to your Zero Trust security strategy

The corporate network perimeter has been completely redefined. Many IT leaders are adopting a Zero Trust security model where identities play a critical role in helping act as the foundation of their modern cybersecurity strategy. As a result, cybercriminals have shifted their focus and identitie...

Why threat protection is critical to your Zero Trust security strategy

The corporate network perimeter has been completely redefined. Many IT leaders are adopting a Zero Trust security model where identities play a critical role in helping act as the foundation of their modern cybersecurity strategy. As a result, cybercriminals have shifted their focus and identitie...

Sophisticated cybersecurity threats demand collaborative, global response

Microsoft’s response to Solorigate Since December, the United States, its government, and other critical institutions including security firms have been addressing the world’s latest serious nation-state cyberattack, sometimes referred to as ‘Solorigate’ or ‘SUNBURST.’ As we shared earlier this i...

Modernizing your network security strategy

From the global pandemic to recent cyberattacks, our world has faced many challenges during the past 12 months. Some of these challenges we can’t change. However, I’m pleased about the ones we can, and are changing across the cybersecurity landscape. For example, to facilitate remote work and...

Modernizing your network security strategy

From the global pandemic to recent cyberattacks, our world has faced many challenges during the past 12 months. Some of these challenges we can’t change. However, I’m pleased about the ones we can, and are changing across the cybersecurity landscape. For example, to facilitate remote work and...

Why Human Error is #1 Cyber Security Threat to Businesses in 2021

Phishing and Malware Among the major cyber threats, the malware remains a significant danger. The 2017 WannaCry outbreak that cost businesses worldwide up to $4 billion is still in recent memory, and other new strains of malware are discovered on a daily basis. Phishing has also seen a resurgence...

LIVE Webinar: Major Lessons to be Learned from Top Cyber Attacks in 2020

We likely all agree that 2020 was a year we won't soon forget - for many reasons. One area particularly impacted last year was and continues to be cybersecurity. While Internet access allowed many businesses to continue functioning during the COVID-19 stay at home requirements, the unprecedented...