Articles Tagged with ''risk management''

Given the rising attacks on critical infrastructure and the interconnected mesh of cyber-physical systems, the United States government is looking to better coordinate protection efforts that anticipate and counter criminal groups’ tactics, techniques and procedures, to help prevent attacks from reaching their intended targets.

EUROPOL announced a successful joint law enforcement operation that led to the arrest of two prolific ransomware operators.

The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform has requested a briefing with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to determine whether it was justified in withholding the Kaseya ransomware decryption key.

Understanding the threats at hand and the best practices for combatting them can help organizations better navigate today’s cybersecurity landscape.   

To address the threat cybercriminals and foreign adversaries pose to DOD data, the department recently introduced the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC). What is the CMMC, what does it consist of, and is it worth the expense? 

As threats evolve from emboldened and increasingly sophisticated malicious actors targeting critical infrastructure, the electric sector has developed a holistic and shared-responsibility approach that has supported key improvements to the security posture and culture of electric companies.

Salt Labs found that nearly every organization using Elastic Stack is affected by a new vulnerability, which makes users susceptible to injection attacks. Bad actors can use injection attacks to exfiltrate data and launch denial of service (DoS) events.  

In acknowledgment of the wide-reaching effects that damage to critical infrastructure organizations and systems can impart, Security has dedicated our October 2021 issue to Critical Infrastructure Security. This month, our features cover the challenges and risks associated with this market sector, along with solutions and best practices security leaders can take to mitigate some of those risks. Here, we cover a few simple steps critical infrastructure security leaders can take to proactively build a program of resiliency.

On-premises infrastructure has long been considered safer and more securable than its cloud counterpart. An increase in cyberattacks on on-premises systems is challenging this surety. 

Your organization risks compliance and disaster protection shortcomings unless your data management practices catch up with the evolution of information sharing.