Why your company’s business partners may be its weakest link By now, most companies have gotten the message that failure to implement cybersecurity best practices exposes their enterprise to alarming risks. But what many don’t realize is that their attack surface may be larger than they think – and the weakest link may exist outside their organization with their business partners. From cloud providers to professional service firms to outside software and hardware, almost every business relies on third-party vendors to support core functions – and it’s common for many of these vendors to
Don’t Underestimate the Growing Threat of Cyber-Physical Attacks
The threat of physical damage to company assets – or worse, people – must be taken seriously Data breaches, financial losses, business interruptions, reputational harm – mitigating these alarming risks is the focus of traditional cybersecurity strategies. But while it may sound like science fiction, a new nightmare scenario is emerging that’s keeping many IT leaders up at night. Cyber-attacks that cause physical damage to people or property is a real threat that many cybersecurity experts fear is being badly underestimated by companies. Even if cyber-attacks don't start out with destructive
The Anatomy of a Cyber-attack
Learning to think like a hacker is a first step toward stopping one Cybercrime is big business. Lucrative results have spurred a large industry of crime organizations run by hackers who are sophisticated, organized, highly-trained, and well-funded. Some are just as technologically sophisticated as the most advanced IT companies – and move just as quick to adopt the latest innovations, from artificial intelligence to cloud computing. Cybercrime costs the world economy an estimated $600 billion a year and attacks show no sign of slowing down. After all, hackers perceive a little risk of being
As DNS Attacks Soar, CyberGlass Creates a New Level of Protection
How to stop these 8 cyber-attacks that target the Internet’s weakest link Domain Name Systems (DNS) are the traffic cops of the Internet – translating the easy-to-remember web addresses that people type into their browsers to the machine-friendly public IP addresses that modern networks mark locations on the Internet. But the exorbitant amount of traffic they direct also makes them one of the Internet’s weakest links, with open connections to arbitrary servers that can be easily exploited by hackers. Attacks that cause failures in DNS can be crippling to an organization – leaving a