SC Magazine

JULY 8, 2021

Devon Ackerman, managing director and head of incident response for North America with Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice, said that the malicious actors behind this growing trend are “directly tied to ransomware groups” and are likely using automated scripts to seek out “Contact Us” or chat forms on the internet that they can abuse.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

It’s mostly problems from the IT world, says Andy Norton, European Cyber Risk Officer at Armis. The Guru decided to ask Armis’ European cyber risk officer, Andy Norton for his thoughts. OT devices don’t run antivirus. What keeps OT security specialists up at night? Vulnerabilities, especially in IT.

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Cybersecurity Wireless Cyber Risk Risk 145

The Last Watchdog

MAY 12, 2021

True enough, cyber attacks are steadily becoming more sophisticated across the board and the attack surface continues to expand as digital transformation accelerates. At the same time, more organizations are taking cyber risk mitigation as seriously as they should. Incremental gains are being made.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 16, 2021

Curtis Dukes, executive vice president, security best practices, at the Center for Internet Security (CIS), wondered if was possible that a security partner could have responded to the intel too quickly and too overtly, indirectly tipping off observant malicious actors through the “early release of protection measures within their product.”

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Even some of the top consumer antivirus tools have begun to add machine learning-based detection. Indeed, it’s best if you can train your model offline, as attackers can potentially mess with ML systems connected to the Internet, misleading them with wrong inputs, for example. However, the biggest concern could be privacy.

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McAfee

MAY 26, 2020

The Brave report issued by the Brave Community, a forum where people who care about the internet and their browsing experience come to discuss with each other, typically shows that only five of Europe’s 28 national GDPR enforcers have more than 10 tech specialists. Train your employees about why privacy and security are important generally.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

The leaked chats show that the Conti group — which fluctuated in size from 65 to more than 100 employees — budgeted several thousand dollars each month to pay for a slew of security and antivirus tools. “They are insured for cyber risks, so what are we waiting for?”

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Ransomware Insurance Cyber Insurance Accountability 212

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Vicarius Vulnerability management 2022 Private Dragos ICS and OT security 2021 Private Safeguard Cyber Risk management 2021 Private CyberGRX Risk management 2019 Private Signifyd Fraud protection 2018 Private RedOwl Security analytics 2015 Acquired: Forcepoint. AllegisCyber Investments.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Two drivers of this conflict are not having a separate room for every family member who needs to work from home (26%) and arguments about how much children should use the Internet (33%). Part of the problem is that, when we teach good Internet safety practices, we are typically speaking to active internet users.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

SpiderSilk offers an impressive proprietary internet scanner that maps out a company’s assets and network attack surface to detect vulnerabilities. SolCyber is the newest managed security service provider (MSSP) on the block to reduce cyber risk, wastage, and complexity. SpiderSilk.

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