Yes, the US is under cyberattacks – constantly Being a rich superpower comes with a price, as the US found out the hard way. Especially American healthcare and financial organizations remain popular targets, since they are rich pickings for cybercrooks. Infrastructure is another favorite, as are municipalities which have often outdated cyber defenses. Looking back, […]
Is Your Organization GDPR Ready?
On May 25, 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation will come into force. GDPR is the brainchild of ENISA (the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) to stem the increasing number of reported data breaches, especially those relating to online systems and services. In our blog of August 31 last year, we […]
SOC Enhancement With Cymulate KPI
Risk Score KPI Lets Your SOC Rock Your Cybersecurity In the good old days, a security operations center (SOC) was basically a room full of live camera feeds to let the organization see what’s going and to take action if necessary. It started with government agencies, defense departments, followed by financial institutions. Today, is also […]
Your Own Red Army
Don’t See Red – Opt for an Automated Red Team to Test Your Security Defenses For some time now, companies have copied a proven military concept to test their cybersecurity. This concept is simple: A Red Ream consisting of cybersecurity pros attacking the organization’s network and the Blue Team must stop these attacks. Organizations normally […]
Game of Ransomware
The Four Horsemen of The Ransomware Apocalypse Keep Riding On Optimistic souls predicted last year that ransomware attacks had their heyday in 2017, so that we would see a decline in 2018. Bad news – this is not the case…The four horsemen of the ransomware apocalypse keep on riding, just changing their targets, tools, methods […]
Cyber Slingshot Away!
Coming to a router near you – beware of Slingshot malware! Cybercrooks and cyberspooks never sleep, and their new “creations” keep popping up. One of the recent trends is targeting routers to cyberattack. Recently, the routers of Latvian manufacturer MikroTik were attacked in a highly sophisticated manner. The malware dubbed “Slingshot”, infected at least 100 […]