Cyber Defense Made Future-Ready
Let’s admit it: cybersecurity is an extremely challenging discipline in almost all organizations. Often, maintaining a proper response and prevention of cybersecurity incidents is associated with large budget requirements, sophisticated technologies and deep understanding of the problem. There are many reasons for that, but in the last couple of years we have witnessed an increasing […]
Security Leaders Don’t Believe In Traditional Approaches!
Each year, the cybersecurity world encounters new challenges and obstacles that organizations need to overcome. However, 2021 turned out to be an exceptionally dangerous year. Most notably, ransomware was a consistently hot topic within the industry following a string of high-profile incidents in which enterprises such as Kaseya and the Irish Health Service became targets. […]
Identity – The New Perimeter
I believe it was at the 2014 RSA Security Conference when I was sitting in the big auditorium of the Moscone Conference Centre in San Francisco and listening to one of the keynotes – This one being around the topic of how identity is the new perimeter and how protecting identities in the setting of […]
The Risky New World of Work
According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2021, the failure of cybersecurity measures is highlighted as a key short-term risk facing organizations today. Last year there was a dramatic increase in cyber-attacks on government agencies and companies globally – many leveraged the COVID-19 crisis to infiltrate networks. According to the study, the attack […]
Fortify Your First Line Of Defense
It reminds me of days when I was young, far away from the conception of cybersecurity, and used to receive arbitrary emails in my inbox saying, “You have won a lottery and click here to claim your amount”. Unintentionally, I had once clicked on the link and “BOOM!, my desktop machine was full of viruses, […]
Thinking Like An Attacker!
Every business integrates applications to their business partners and consumers. Imagine, what if an application owner says, “We trust our partners and consumers and know that they will not engage in any malicious activity which exploits the application” or “a security compromise cannot happen on the company’s watch”. If these statements sound familiar, then the […]
Digital Differentiation With Secure Apps
Applications are the lifeblood of businesses today, fueling a surge in global enterprise software spending estimated to top US $600 billion in 2021, according to Statista.com.1 But with the ever-increasing deployment and usage of apps worldwide come requirements for powerful app security. The need for more protection is heightened because organizations are increasingly deploying apps […]
Keep It Private
Privacy is focused on governing the use of personal data with appropriate policies to ensure that consumers’ personal information is being collected, shared, and used in a manner expected/consented to by the data subject, in accordance with the applicable laws and compliance requirements. However, there are a few challenges that can hinder achieving this objective. […]
Protecting Your Active Directory – Is It Still Relevant?
Over the past few years, the IT threat landscape has changed in ways that most of us thought would never happen. The global pandemic forced us to redefine our perimeters, not just the physical boundaries of our offices, but the perimeter of our security systems too. Naturally this shift in perimeter has driven a huge […]
Security Tools, Assemble!
In the world of cybersecurity, we often talk about the increased complexity of attacks on enterprises and critical infrastructure. There are various ways we, as cybersecurity professionals, recommend tackling these complex and motivated threat actors. One such aspect is getting our technologies to talk to each other and elevate our level of security implementations. In […]
