Author Archives: Jennifer Gregory

SOAR, SIEM, SASE and Zero Trust: How They All Fit Together

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Cybersecurity in today’s climate is not a linear process. Organizations can’t simply implement a single tool or strategy to be protected from all threats and challenges. Instead, they must implement the right strategies and technologies for the organization’s specific needs and level of accepted risks. However, once the dive into today’s best practices and strategies […]

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How Breached Companies Become the Face of Change

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I’ve always told my kids that everyone makes mistakes. What really matters is how you handle them and that you learn from what happened.  SolarWinds followed the same thinking in how it handled its 2020 breach. Not only did the company write its comeback story to help improve its reputation, but it is also working […]

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Will Charging Station Cyberattacks Impact the EV Boom?

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During a recent get-together, my friend arrived late. She apologized, quickly explaining that she’d had trouble finding a charging station for her electric vehicle (EV). While she knew where the stations in her hometown were, she couldn’t easily find them on the road. This piqued my curiosity, and I began asking her questions about EVs […]

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What are the Duties of a Malware Analyst?

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Malware breaches begin in many ways. Recently, multiple fake antivirus apps in the Google Play Store were infected with malware. Earlier this year, malware deployed through satellites shut down modems in Ukraine. Destructive malware attacks have an average lifecycle of 324 days (233 days to identify and 91 days to contain), compared to the global […]

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Avoid Being a Downstream Victim of Service Provider Attacks

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Attacks on service providers are mounting — and so are downstream victims. Earlier this year, some customers of the cloud service provider DigitalOcean received emails instructing them to reset their passwords. These users hadn’t actually forgotten their passwords — their email addresses had been compromised in a data breach. But the cybersecurity incident didn’t start […]

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Six Common Ways That Malware Strains Get Their Names

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You’re likely familiar with the names of common malware strains such as MOUSEISLAND, Agent Tesla and TrickBot. But do you know how new malware threats get their names? As a cybersecurity writer, I quickly add new strains to my vocabulary. But I never knew how they came to have those names in the first place. […]

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What is a Pentester, and Can They Prevent Data Breaches?

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With the cost of data breaches at an all-time high, organizations are working to proactively identify areas of risk on the network. Using pentesters to conduct penetration (pen) testing is becoming more common. To protect themselves, businesses must know their risk areas before hackers find vulnerabilities. Organizations can lower their attack risk by protecting against […]

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How Do Threat Hunters Keep Organizations Safe?

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Neil Wyler started his job amid an ongoing cyberattack. As a threat hunter, he helped his client discover that millions of records had been stolen over four months. Even though his client used sophisticated tools, its threat-hunting technology did not detect the attack because the transactions looked normal. But with Wyler’s expertise, he was able […]

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The Most Prolific Ransomware Gangs of 2022

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As we look forward to 2023, we can find many ransomware lessons in looking back at 2022. The year brought us numerous attacks by many of the same gangs we’ve watched for years, as well as some newcomers. Many ransomware gangs operate like businesses, with their own marketing departments and user documentation. With the advent […]

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Cybersecurity Trends: IBM’s Predictions for 2023

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As with many other aspects of life and business, 2022 held fewer overall surprises in cybersecurity than in recent years — thank goodness. Instead, many trends brewing over the past few years began to take clearer form. Some were unexpected, and many were predictable, but all are important to consider when making plans for security […]

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