Privileged Account Management and Identity Access Management: Same Family, Different Strengths

From a cyber criminal’s point of view, obtaining privileged account information has the highest ROI of any attack strategy. A malicious actor with privileged account passwords in hand could infiltrate key databases and access highly sensitive dat… Continue reading Privileged Account Management and Identity Access Management: Same Family, Different Strengths

How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part II – Caching

In the first post of this series, we talked about the practices that will optimize your site and increase your website’s resilience to DDoS attacks. Today, we are going to focus on caching best practices that can reduce the chances of a DDoS att… Continue reading How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part II – Caching

Switching to HTTPS Before It’s Too Late

Google, Mozilla, and other web authorities are pushing for website owners to adopt HTTPS. Soon, Google Chrome will start flagging sites by displaying a warning that the site is “Not secure“.
Chrome 68 is already in Beta. Before long, … Continue reading Switching to HTTPS Before It’s Too Late

Three C-Words of Web App Security: Part 1 – CORS

For those less versed in web applications and how they’ve evolved, I wrote a sort of prologue to this post back in April 2018, titled A Brief Evolution of Web Apps. This is the first in a three-part series, Three C-Words of Web Application Securi… Continue reading Three C-Words of Web App Security: Part 1 – CORS

SharePoint Best Intentions – Planning versus Reality

If you are thinking about updating to SharePoint 2019, it’s time to take a serious look at how upgrades work in the real world.

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Why You Should Care about Website Security on Your Small Site

Most people assume that if their website has been compromised, there must have been an attacker evaluating their site and looking for a specific vulnerability to hack. Under most circumstances however, bad actors don’t manually hand-pick website… Continue reading Why You Should Care about Website Security on Your Small Site

The Importance of Website Backups

Imagine waking up in the morning to see that a couple of calls were missed and your email is overloaded with messages saying that your website is down. You go to your computer to check your server and it’s working fine – but oh no,  a… Continue reading The Importance of Website Backups

How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part I

Denial of Service (Dos) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are unforgiving. They test the limits of your web server and application resources by sending spikes of fake traffic to your website. It is also notoriously difficult to conduct … Continue reading How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part I

Gartner: Privileged Access Management is the #1 Cyber Security Priority for 2018

A recent report from Gartner reveals the top IT Security Projects for 2018 with Privileged Access Management as #1, Application Control #4 and Protecting Endpoints #6. Before we get into why Privileged Access Management (PAM) is the #1 Cyber Security P… Continue reading Gartner: Privileged Access Management is the #1 Cyber Security Priority for 2018

What is PCI Compliance?

Sucuri aims at keeping the internet safe. That is why we are so keen on informing our customers of potential threats. We have posted many articles regarding ecommerce security breaches that steal credit card information, as well as the risks for … Continue reading What is PCI Compliance?