Kroll has announced that the firm has promoted 18 colleagues to the managing director level in the United States, with a total of 31 practitioners promoted globally.
The U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) released Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Plots Against Schools, the newest report out of the center. For the first time in agency history, NTAC specifically examines attacks that were successfully prevented.
Survey finds that 58% of respondents are concerned about security in the cloud, while misconfigurations are one of the leading causes of breaches and outages, as public cloud adoption doubles over past two years
April 2, 2021
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) new survey, “State of Cloud Security Concerns, Challenges, and Incidents, finds that 58% of respondents are concerned about security in the cloud, while misconfigurations are one of the leading causes of breaches and outages, as public cloud adoption doubles over past two years.
CISA has issued supplemental direction to Emergency Directive (ED) 21-02: Mitigate Microsoft Exchange On-Premises Product Vulnerabilities providing additional forensic triage and server hardening, requirements for federal agencies. Specifically, this update directs federal departments and agencies to run newly developed tools —Microsoft’s Test-ProxyLogon.ps1 script and Safety Scanner MSER—to investigate whether their Microsoft Exchange Servers have been compromised.
Sharecare announced the expansion of its executive team with David Guthrie joining as chief information officer (CIO) and chief information security officer (CISO).
Cybrary, and MITRE Engenuity announced a partnership to offer MITRE ATT&CK Defender (MAD), a new online training and certification solution designed to enable defenders to gain the advantage over cyber adversaries.
Cyberbit,announced the Hudson’s Bay Company incident response team as winner of the inaugural International Cyber League (ICL) competition, the America’s Cyber Cup, outperforming nearly 100 Security Operations Center (SOC) and incident response teams over the course of four rounds of simulated cyberattack challenges. Hudson’s Bay Company was declared the winner based on quality of performance, and time to response, achieving the title of Best Cyber Defense Team in the Americas.
COVID-19 has brought countless changes, large and small, to the global workplace. But as time continues forward, the question becomes, what will the economy's "new normal" look like? Managers in the U.S. expect vaccinations to be required and health, safety and security protocols to remain in place post COVID-19.