With more than 4,000 ransomware attacks occurring daily since the start of 2016 according to The U.S. Department of Justice, every company of every size, every network stack and every infrastructure deployment is a potential target.
The ransomware gang behind the highly publicized attack on CD Projekt Red uses a Linux variant that targets VMware's ESXi virtual machine platform for maximum damage, BleepingComputer reports.
A recent study from Security Compass found just 25% of organizations surveyed conduct threat modeling during the early phases of software development—requirements gathering and design—before proceeding with application development.
Artificial Intelligence impacts the physical security industry directly when you consider that surveillance cameras are the ultimate end-point device, the “all-seeing eyes” of the Internet. Could “intelligence” be applied to optimize security operations? Learn from one security leader’s experience using AI to reduce tailgating and streamline security operations.
The number of cyberattacks increased by 17% compared to Q1 2020, and compared to Q4 2020, the increase was 1.2%, with 77% being targeted attacks, according to a new Positive Technologies Cybersecurity Threatscape Q1 2021 report. Incidents involving individuals accounted for 12% of the total.
In an effort to protect national security and intellectual property from foreign threats and bad actors, the Canadian government is setting new guidelines, effective immediately, that work national security considerations into funding criteria for university research.
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has discovered four in-the-wild 0-day campaigns targeting four separate vulnerabilities this year, all which can be particularly dangerous when exploited and have a high rate of success.
While this is a step in the right direction, there are some confusion, speculation and rumors related to CMMC accreditation. The following are three common misconceptions around CMMC certification, with clarification to help organizations requiring CMMC certification to stay well-informed on the necessary guidelines and procedures.
Because cybersecurity events are complicated, we rely on analogies to understand how they work. Analogies are useful, but certain oversimplifications are perpetuating inaccurate narratives. These inaccuracies misdirect productive discussion and as a result, proposed policy and solutions are being based on faulty assumptions. A faulty premise can only yield flawed results…and cyber national security is not an area in which the United States has margin for error.
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