The DigiNotar attack in 2011 set itself apart because it was an attack on the cybersecurity industry itself. Most attacks are on a single company. But this one shook trust…
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Cybersecurity Careers: Awareness, Opportunities and Retention
This week, Cybersecurity Awareness Month focuses on cybersecurity careers and jobs in the industry, with a simple tagline: Explore. Experience. Share. Check out NIST’s workshops and toolkits for Career Week.…
Phishing Attacks Are Top Cyber Crime Threat, Easier Than Ever to Create and Deploy
Why is one of cyber crime’s oldest threats still going strong? The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) reports that January 2021 marked an unprecedented high in the APWG’s records, with over…
Cybersecurity Solutions to Know in 2021: Open Source and Scaling Up
Speed is of the essence in digital defense. As the latest Ponemon Institute Cost of a Data Breach Report makes clear, businesses and agencies that are able to respond to and…
How to Protect Against Deepfake Attacks and Extortion
Cybersecurity professionals are already losing sleep over data breaches and how to best protect their employers from attacks. Now they have another nightmare to stress over — how to spot…
Fighting Cyber Threats With Open-Source Tools and Open Standards
Detecting cyber threats is usually the first critical step in the mitigation of cyber attacks. Common means to achieve this goal are rules or analytics that track network and system…
Red & Blue: United We Stand
Offensive and defensive security are typically viewed as opposite sides of the same fence. On one side, the offensive team aims to prevent attackers from compromising an organization, whereas on…
SSDF: The Key to Defending Against Supply Chain Cyberattacks
For reasons we all know, software supply chain attacks took on new meaning near the end of 2020. This hasn’t changed over this year. One of the best modern ways…
5 Ways to Defend Against Supply Chain Cyberattacks
Cutting corners happens, more so in high-stakes, high-speed jobs. But from employees honest enough to admit when they push vulnerable code live, we can put together a portfolio of products…
SOC Second Defense Phase – Understanding the Cyber Threat Profiles
In the first phase of architecturing the SOC, we have seen the basic level understanding of the attacks and necessary steps to breaking the Attack Chain. Let’s move on to…