Roger Grimes of KnowBe4 maintains that antivirus and firewalls are worthless, noting that after 30 years the industry faces more threats than ever. Grimes believes that most people pay attention to firewall logs when they first enter the security field, but after the first few years they become background noise.
The company uses graph-based tools and algorithms to analyze the security posture of an organization’s cloud stack, identifying misconfigurations or problematic permission policies in order plot out the most likely avenues of attack.
Unlike with an email-based phish where an employee might be observant enough spot a telltale red flag, such as multiple typos or the wrong sender address, there’s little time to key in on suspicious circumstances in the midst of a dialogue.
The Home Depot breach was, at the time, the largest reported breach in history, capturing 56 million credit cards.
The all in one dashboard provides a three-fold protection and management platform that delivers cost-effective monitoring for data-in-motion.
Mayorkas, a former U.S. attorney and former deputy secretary of Homeland Security, is a known commodity in cybersecurity quarters, having worked on several key components of cyber policy, including threat information sharing, during his run in the Obama administration.
Two popular Baidu apps collect data that can surreptitiously track a user’s location through Stingray devices or intercept phone calls and text messages.
The tactics seek out highly sensitive data as leverage, targeting small businesses whose efforts to be tax-compliant could be seriously disrupted.
The joint effort reflects the need across organizations to maintain an up-to-date inventory of IoT assets and continually assess the network to ensure patches are pushed and weak or default credentials do not leave systems vulnerable.
Last March’s hasty dispatch of employees to work remote as the pandemic bore down challenged even the most nimble of security teams. But supporting a hybrid workforce – one that accommodates workers migrating back to the office and those continuing to work from home – will bring its own set of security challenges.
