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A research from SecurityScorecard and The Cyentia Institute revealed only 60% of organizations have improved their security posture despite a 15-fold increase in cyber-attacks over the last three years. The joint research sought to measure the speed of vulnerability remediation from 2019 – 2022 and revealed only modest progress in the area of vulnerability remediation. […]
Continue ReadingThe number of U.S. data breaches reported in 2021 increased dramatically over the preceding year. As reported by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), there were 1,291 data breaches between January 1, 2021 and September 30, 2021. The volume beat out the 1,108 breaches detected over the course of Full Year (FY) 2020. It’s therefore […]
Continue ReadingDetermining the security posture for an increasing quantity of cloud accounts and services used by many organizations can feel overwhelming, but Tripwire Configuration Manager can help you find, fix, and even enforce settings for common security problems in cloud services. In this blog, we will show how the simple steps required to have Tripwire Configuration Manager […]
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Exchange servers around the world are still getting compromised via the ProxyLogon (CVE-2021-26855) and three other vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft in early March. While the initial attacks were attributed by Microsoft to a threat actor dubbed Hafnium, believed to be a state-sponsored group that operates from China, the same exploits were subsequently used by […]
Continue ReadingAs companies continue to respond to the global pandemic, millions of their employees are working remotely, often from home. While this is the recommended response, it’s also creating new cyber risks. More specifically, organizations face four daunting challenges today that significantly increase their risk exposure: Distributed workforce: Organizations have created a distributed workforce on an […]
Continue ReadingLike many people, I’m glad 2020 is almost over. I am, however, excited about 2021. Here are three trends I believe will impact how well (or not) companies will be able to remediate vulnerabilities. 2021 will be the year of cloud vulnerability If you think you’ve heard this one before, to quote Bachman–Turner Overdrive, “you […]
Continue Reading84% of security and IT leaders feel their enterprise programs are mature, but a deeper dive reveals a major disconnect between perception and reality, Vulcan Cyber reveals. “We already know most enterprise programs are immature – we see it every day in the field. What caught us off guard was that the vast majority of […]
Continue ReadingThere are unrealized gaps between the rate of implementation or operation and the effective use of cloud security access brokers (CASB) within the enterprise, according to a global Cloud Security Alliance survey of more than 200 IT and security professionals from a variety of organization sizes and locations. Utilize cloud security solutions “CASB solutions have […]
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