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This is post 9 in our series on making infosec jobs easier. Today we are covering the job of responding to cybersecurity incidents. You can read the previous 8 posts at one of the links below. Improve overall security posture Assess and report on brea… Continue reading Making Infosec Jobs Easier: Responding to Cybersecurity Incidents
On August 5, 2018, a malware sample, now known as Glueball (CVE-2020-1464), targeting Microsoft Windows was uploaded to VirusTotal. Upon investigating the issue, the sample was forwarded to Microsoft for further investigation. In January, 2019, VirusT… Continue reading Exploited in the Wild, It Took Microsoft 734 Days to Patch this Vulnerability
New survey data shows that the majority (55%) of cybersecurity budgets are allocated towards reactive, rather than proactive, tools. Ask any infosec professional and they’ll tell you that a solid infosec strategy requires both reactive and proactive s… Continue reading Two CISOs Pay $400k for Security, Yet One Spends 10x More. How?
This is post 8 in our series on making infosec jobs easier and covers threat hunting. You can read the previous 7 posts at one of the links below. Improve overall security posture Assess and report on breach risk Keep systems patched How to adjust to … Continue reading Making Infosec Jobs Easier: Preventing Ransomware
There are some amazingly high profile architectural landmarks that we meant to be temporary in nature. Believe it or not, famous structures such as The London Eye, the original Ferris Wheel, the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, and even the iconic E… Continue reading 6 Keys to Ensuring Remote Employee Security
This is post 6 in our series on making infosec jobs easier and covers threat hunting. You can read the previous 5 posts at one of the links below. Improve overall security posture Assess and report on breach risk Keep systems patched How to adjust to … Continue reading Making Infosec Jobs Easier: Threat Hunting
This is post 5 in our series on making infosec jobs easier and covers how cybersecurity teams can adjust to changes in IT landscape. The first post covered improving overall security posture. The second post discussed assessing and reporting on breach… Continue reading Making Infosec Jobs Easier: Preventing Data Loss and Fraud
In April 2019, a tiny credit union in Greenville, Pennsylvania, Bessemer System Federal Credit Union, filed a lawsuit against Fiserv, a 24,000 employee financial services behemoth, for breach of contract. After more than a year of delays, a Federal ju… Continue reading David vs Goliath: Are 16,000 Banks Insecure?
This is post 2 in our series on making infosec jobs easier. The first post (here) covered the job of improving overall security posture. Assessing and reporting on enterprise breach risk is an important part of the CISO’s role. This holds true w… Continue reading Making Infosec Jobs Easier: Assessing and Reporting Breach Risk
Yesterday, Balbix and Cybersecurity Insiders published the 2020 State of Security Posture Report, revealing key findings around the attitudes that infosec teams have about their security posture and the biggest challenges they face when trying to impr… Continue reading Report: Organizations Lack Visibility into Their Top Risks