Although small businesses may not have the financial resources of larger enterprises, they do possess a trove of business and customer information that can net attackers a tidy profit either via ransomware or sale on the dark web. Understanding today’s threats—and how to defend against them—has grown increasingly critical for small businesses. Here are a few of the most common attack vectors that they should be prepared to face.
1/ST has appointed former Federal Bureau of Investigation Supervisory Special Agent Rob D'Amico as Chief Security Officer for the 1/ST group of companies.
Disaster recovery as a service can potentially save organizations money and resources while ensuring they’re prepared for an incident that could potentially put them out of business. But what is DraaS, how can it be implemented at your organization and what are the benefits?
Molson Coors Beverage Company, a multinational drink and brewing company headquartered in Chicago in the United States, has suffered a cyberattack that has halted its beer-making production.
The National Security Agency announced a new GenCyber Call for Proposals for 2022 GenCyber summer camps. The new Call for Proposals for GenCyber goes out to institutions interested in hosting a 2022 summer camp and to provide young students with the skills they need to better prepare for a career in the fast-changing field of cybersecurity.
The Security Benchmark Report (formerly the Security 500) survey is now open! Calling all enterprise security leaders within your organization...fill out the survey today and help us benchmark where security lies within every sector and industry.
Carnegie Mellon University is set to launch its seventh picoCTF, an online cybersecurity competition run by security and privacy experts in Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab who hope to help generate interest in the field and build a pipeline of talent into the currently-starved workforce.
The recent attack on SolarWind's Orion product demonstrated how vital it is for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and their teams manage supply chain risks and understand all the products in their environment and how they are being used. Here we talk to Michael Lines, CISO and Head of Security Product Management at Cleanshelf, about why the IT and information security community should be concerned after the SolarWinds hack.
Ransomware can be delivered via several mechanisms, the most popular of which is often phishing. However, a new category called “Human-Operated“ Ransomware is now being used to execute multi-level attacks against company networks. Here’s how it works: