On May 17, the city of Augusta, Georgia, published a public information tweet of a type that’s becoming increasingly familiar to citizens across the United States: “The City is currently experiencing a disruption in network services, which may affect telephone and email access. We are working diligently to resolve the issue as soon as possible. […]
Sponsored Post: Palo Alto The ever-evolving threat landscape makes it challenging for organizations to be confident in their security posture. In fact, we have seen a 100% year-over-year increase in attacks where threat actors leverage a zero-day exploit before vendors can patch them. Our Unit 42 team has reported more than a 73% increase in attackers using white hat […]
In cybersecurity circles, there’s a threat that’s sufficiently feared in which examples of it have on occasion acquired the status of professional legends—the possibility of a lone, rogue administrator running amok against their employer. For years, stories of rogue admins concerned internal incidents known only within an individual organization. Then the Internet arrived. This not […]
Sponsored Post: Palo Alto Maybe its folklore, but evidently there was a time when people could leave their doors unlocked and feel safe. If indeed that was the case, it’s a bygone era for most people today. Threats aren’t just in someone else’s backyard anymore. They can be anywhere. That’s the same realization that enterprise […]
Sponsored Post: Nasuni The greater the leverage, the greater the chance a ransomware attack will prove successful. An attacker gains leverage in two ways. The first is reach. The more operational services that can be disrupted, the more power. The second is financial risk. Every minute that a company is down represents a minute of […]
Sponsored Post: Palo Alto Global organizations face two major security challenges in today’s business climate: digital transformation and macroeconomic conditions. Let’s address digital transformation. The past three years saw massive cloud IT investments and expansions, with organizations adopting large-scale remote and hybrid work to support business continuity. Cloud-based applications, devices and endpoints are more connected […]
