Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

This Article Insider Risk Digest: Week 45-46 was first published on Signpost Six. | | [link] Introduction In this edition of our Insider Risk Digest for weeks 45-46, we highlight a disturbing case of workplace violence, and the role that organisational culture plays in mitigating and responding to insider risk.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2023

Knowing that insider threats are a risk is one thing. Dealing with issues of insider cyber risk can be different and nuanced. However, over one-third of businesses are impacted by insider threats every year, and US businesses face about 2.500 internal security breaches in the aggregate per day.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Professionals are constantly seeking ways to fortify their defenses against malicious threats. Rather than solely focusing on prevention, it assumes the attackers are already inside the network and prepares accordingly. Risk mitigation. Industry and threat profile. billion by 2028. Enhanced preparedness.

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Heimadal Security

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

But what can you do when the call is coming from inside the house? How can you successfully discover and mitigate a malicious insider threat before it’s too late? The post Malicious Insider Explained: The Call is Coming from Inside the House appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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IT Security Central

MAY 5, 2022

Organizations can face the threat of data like their intellectual property (IP), source code, customer details, Personally Identifiable Information (PII), financial […].

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll discuss: Our current perimeter defense; The need to shift to a data-centric security approach; and, The need to educate the public to strengthen our critical infrastructure security posture. Some of these include: Advanced persistent threats (APTs); Insider threats; Social engineering; and, Human error.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In others, they try brute forcing their way through a company’s security; and sometimes, they’re malicious insiders who already have access to sensitive files. IABs aren’t necessarily a new threat, but they’ve seen tremendous growth over the past few years. Mitigating IABs. Regardless of the specifics, the outcome is the same.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 28, 2023

In this blog, we will delve into the potential risks associated with AI and the importance of implementing robust cybersecurity measures to safeguard against these threats. Develop incident response plans to mitigate and contain any breaches or attacks swiftly.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 11, 2023

The two other zero-day threats this month for Windows are both privilege escalation flaws. The same threat actor has also been associated with ransomware attacks targeting a wide array of victims.” Microsoft has also published a blog post about phishing campaigns tied to Storm-0978 and to the exploitation of this flaw.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 23, 2024

This convergence of consumer and business concerns underscores the imperative for organizations to embrace technology strategically and address and mitigate the perceived risks associated with the digital realm. This category encompasses threats like data breaches and inadequate privacy controls.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

One helpful perspective is to view Zero Trust as a three-legged tripod: •The first leg of this tripod is the network – protecting the perimeter and ensuring organizations are safeguarded from the outside in, as well as inside out. the crown jewels are on endpoints or accessed from these.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 15, 2023

This article was originally featured in ASIS International Ideally, businesses should use data to inform and contextualize their most important decisions, both inside and outside the security function.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

In a blog posted by Intel 471 , researchers said the scheme involves several different layers of cybercriminals, including hackers and middlemen, the use of insider information, and unwitting victims that result in some serious data exposures. businesses. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Stories from the SOC is a blog series that describes recent real-world security incident investigations conducted and reported by the AT&T SOC analyst team for AT&T Managed Threat Detection and Response customers. Configuration changes were carried out on the affected customer asset, mitigating the threat.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This blog explores why endpoint security is of utmost importance when accessing applications and highlights the potential risks associated with compromised endpoints. Check out the Cisco article Configure Duo and Secure Endpoint to Respond to Threats.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2022

The badUSB attack first exploited enterprises’ greatest weakness: insiders. To mitigate staff carelessness, enterprises implement a robust cybersecurity strategy, typically comprised of various policies, regulatory compliance, and security software. Let’s explore them below: Friend or foe. You can’t protect what you can’t see.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 19, 2021

As the virtualization software provider was interested in investing in securing cloud native applications, Mesh7 proved as the best alternative as its software helps detects and mitigates cyber threats. The post VMware acquires cloud security startup Mesh7 appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This blog aims to serve as a guide to navigating the intricate terrain of cyber risk quantification, providing insights into its significance, methodologies, and the transformative impact it can have on organizational cybersecurity strategies. Enter the need for a more precise and actionable approach — Cyber Risk Quantification.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2021

Much attention has been paid to the widespread failure to detect the insidious Sunburst malware that the SolarWinds hackers managed to slip deep inside the best-defended networks on the planet. So from inside SolarWinds, these elite hackers were able to distribute authentic, though infectious, Orion updates.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Rohit Ghai, CEO of RSA Security and NetWitness, said, “Zero-day exploits like the Log4j vulnerability are a threat to the majority of users around the globe. NetWitness has released an advisory notice to help customers mitigate the threat to their NetWitness systems, which can be found here. ABOUT NetWitness.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2022

Identifying sources has become a tool in countering the anti-China narrative in the foreign press, and it acts as a powerful disincentive to anyone inside China who might consider speaking to a foreign journalist. But this leaves security teams powerless to stop novel threats and zero-days. We have entered a new era of cyber threats.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2021

As we close out #RansomwareWeek here on the (ISC)² blog, a timely piece of news comes from The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the form of new draft guidance for organizations concerning ransomware attacks, according to reporting by Infosecurity Magazine.

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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

No matter how many firewalls or network controls you have in place, the risk of insider threat will always be present. Incorporate Threat Intelligence for a proactive approach to finding the threat types that are relevant to your organization based on your industry and company size.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

As the ransomware threat continues to increase in sophistication and prevalence, it’s critical that organizations implement a well-planned ransomware defense strategy. More information on ransomware defense and mitigation is available here. in losses between January 1 and July 31, 2021—a 62% increase from the same timeframe in 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

Three Threat Areas. The threat comes from three primary areas, they wrote: Supply chain risks (an attack vector that became a high-profile threat after the SolarWinds attack ), malicious threat actors and insider threats. Insider threats can be administrators, users, or cloud service providers.

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Google Security

JANUARY 11, 2024

If you need a refresher, you can read our previous blog post detailing MiraclePtr and its objectives. We also exclude bugs that occur inside a sandboxed renderer process. MiraclePtr effectively mitigated 57% of these use-after-free vulnerabilities in privileged processes , exceeding our initial estimate of 50%.

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McAfee

MAY 5, 2021

Bottom Line: McAfee stopped the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation Carbanak and FIN7 threats in their tracks within the first 15% of the major steps of the attack chain (on average), delivering on a critical security operations center (SOC) strategy: Stop the attack as early as possible. . The Carbanak attack requires stealth and time.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

McAfee’s global network of over a billion threat sensors affords its threat researchers the unique advantage of being able to thoroughly analyze dozens of cyber-attacks of this kind. Once inside the network, the attacker could: Begin performing discovery and enumerating the network. The Anatomy of a Cloud Services Attack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The following table shows some classifications that reflect realistic and prominent threats to a company's personnel, data, and technology. We should assess each threat for its ability to put the company in jeopardy. This is threat assessment. Vulnerability.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. As many businesses transfer their resources to the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes more prevalent, threat actors are increasingly interested in exploiting unprotected devices, networks, etc. Digital twins can help assess Cyber threats.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As the industry’s premier global cybersecurity intelligence event, Detect LIVE is where security executives, practitioners, threat analysts, and researchers from all over the world share their insights and expertise on how they use intelligence-driven detection and response to combat surging adversaries.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2021

<a href='/blog?tag=Cybersecurity'>Cybersecurity</a> tag=Cybersecurity'>Cybersecurity</a> <a href='/blog?tag=Data tag=Data Loss Prevention'>Data Loss Prevention</a> <a href='/blog?tag=IT DLP can be either network or endpoint-based and plays an important role in keeping data secure.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Threat Summary. The framework is widely used across millions of enterprise applications and therefore a lucrative target for threat actors to exploit. The framework is widely used across millions of enterprise applications and therefore a lucrative target for threat actors to exploit. Getting the Latest Threat Intelligence.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 22, 2021

They fit nicely into categories like external attackers or insider threats. In this blog series, the Magic of Mitigations , we’ve highlighted Mitigations as MITRE’s recommendations against attacker behavior. What other security approach addresses so many threat vectors? Segmentation is zero trust magic.

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McAfee

AUGUST 10, 2021

The vulnerability can be triggered via the RDP Video Redirection Virtual Channel Extension feature [MS-RDPEV], which is typically deployed on port 3389, and is contained inside of compressed UDP payload and encrypted RDP using TLS. Mitigation: Patch. Mitigation: Patch or disable “Enhanced Session Mode”.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 27, 2023

However, it soon became apparent that this cyber threat was not limited to a specific region, as it rapidly infected systems worldwide. Once inside a network, the malware would overwrite the master boot record (MBR) and the master file table (MFT), rendering the affected systems inoperable.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Throughout October we’ll be adding more links to new blog posts and research as they become available, so check back often here. The post (ISC)² Celebrates Cybersecurity Awareness Month With Treasure Trove of Knowledge Building Resources appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders. Watch here: [link].

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