Continuous monitoring can keep companies from suffering further consequences from a data breach There’s a really good chance that private information stolen from you or your company is for sale at this very moment on the dark web. The Hollywood version of the dark web as the seedy underbelly of the Internet – a place where you can encounter some of the most unsavory parts of the human experience – has a lot of truth. It’s the place on the Internet that’s not indexed by traditional search engines; it can only be accessed through a special browser like TOR that renders your IP address
CyberGlass WAN Protection, Part 2
How VPNs and Dark Web Monitoring stop criminals from wreaking havoc With great technology comes great vulnerability. The Internet offers incredible opportunities for businesses to connect with customers, partners, and talent around the world. But it also makes it increasingly difficult to keep information safe. Businesses are the prime targets for hackers bent on stealing private information, trade secrets, and money. And U.S. businesses are the hardest hit: American companies lost an average of $21 million to cybercrime last year, according to the Ponemon Institute’s 2017 Cost of Cybercrime
CyberGlass WAN Protection, Part 1
How to keep bad online actors out of your network Once upon a time, building a strong defense around a company’s perimeter was considered the best protection against cybercrime. But while that’s still important, it’s no longer enough to stop clever hackers as the perimeter blurs and organizations connect more and more of their business to the Internet. Cybersecurity is a daily struggle for businesses. And the U.S. Director of National Intelligence Daniel R. Coats recently warned that the “potential for surprise” will continue to rise as billions of more devices are connected to the Internet
Your Best Defense? A Strong Threat Model
Three key tips to plan and perform your model correctly One of the best ways to protect your company against the myriad of cybersecurity threats out there is a comprehensive, long-term strategy. A key tool to accomplish this is a threat model, which functions as a how-to manual when things go wrong. It identifies risks and vulnerabilities and builds security into the design of networks or applications to thwart potential threats. At its core, threat modeling allows your team to see the whole forest instead of focusing on each individual tree (threat). It also provides a unique opportunity
Introducing the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Protection
CyberGuard360’s trailblazing CyberGlass doesn’t only spot attacks – it fixes them Prevention can win over even the most persistent attacks, thanks to a groundbreaking new weapon in the war on cybercrime: CyberGlass. The latest innovation from leading cybersecurity provider CuberGuard360, CyberGlass is trailblazing a new software category as the world’s first Security Monitoring & Management (SMM) platform. It is the first and only platform to combine all the elements of a complete cybersecurity program into a single actionable interface – enabling MSPs, MSSPs, and enterprise IT teams to
6 Important Lessons Learned from Recent Data Breaches
Spotting the mistakes and vulnerabilities that led to a breach 1. TCM Bank If you applied for a credit card through TCM Bank (a subsidiary of ICBA Bancard) between March 2017 and July 2018, your data may have been exposed. About twenty-five percent of applicants from that timeframe were affected, exposing data including names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. The fault, though, was not exactly TCM’s, though it is, in the end. The misconfiguration was from a website managed by a third party. This has since been corrected and TCM is now requiring their vendors
What Cybersecurity Issues Keep You Up at Night?
Not enough staff and insecure data top the list As we enter winter 2018, the cybersecurity landscape is decidedly a mixed bag. According to a survey compiled by the Ponemon Institute, 67 percent of companies believe they are more vulnerable than in 2017. The report surveyed 612 chief information officers (CIOs) and IT security experts and found the top five threats facing the industry are lack of competent in-house IT staff (70 percent), data breaches (67 percent), cyberattacks (59 percent), inability to reduce employee negligence (54 percent), and ransomware (48 percent). These threats are
How Hackers Could Make Your Daily Commute A Lot Worse
Black-hatted-extortionists are showing just how vulnerable our traffic control and other public transit systems are to hackers As the world becomes increasingly dependent on Internet-enabled technology, so too do our traffic systems. Unfortunately, security systems have not kept up to date with the problems posted by hackers. The sensors that detect vehicles, the transmitters that carry information to traffic lights, and even the computers housing all of this information are vulnerable to attacks. Take, for example, Cesar Cerrudo, who taught himself how to infiltrate cybernetic systems,
Ransomware is Every Industry’s Problem
City departments, hospitals, and shipping companies learned the hard way that ransomware will hold anyone’s data hostage Shortly after the WannaCry ransomware crypto worm finished swindling Microsoft Windows users out of billions in May 2017, the finger pointing game began. The US blamed North Korea, Twitter exploded with conspiracy theories, and everyone scrambled to secure their precious information using whatever methods seemed feasible. But then an unfamiliar variant of Petya nailed 80 global companies in a politically-motivated attack meant to throttle Ukraine. Analysts speculated this
The Cloud’s Dark Lining
The more users entrust personal and professional data to cyberspace, the more criminals will target the cloud. Their methods evolve as quickly as the technology they seek to exploit. The cloud is a vast virtual data storage platform that has radically changed the economics of computing, but it is not as far out of reach as its name implies. Just like a physical storage medium, the cloud is vulnerable to evermore industrious cybercriminals. Their exploitation of the framework’s weaknesses can spell disaster for unprepared individuals or entire corporations. What are the biggest dangers and