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3 Reasons Why Technology Integration Matters
As John Donne once wrote, “No man is an island entire of itself.” With digitalization bridging any distance, the same logic could be applied to tech. Threat actors have vast…
Why Your Success Depends on Your IAM Capability
It’s truly universal: if you require your workforce, customers, patients, citizens, constituents, students, teachers… anyone, to register before digitally accessing information or buying goods or services, you are enabling that…
Controlling the Source: Abusing Source Code Management Systems
For full details on this research, see the X-Force Red whitepaper “Controlling the Source: Abusing Source Code Management Systems”. This material is also being presented at Black Hat USA 2022.…
Black Hat 2022 Sneak Peek: How to Build a Threat Hunting Program
You may recall my previous blog post about how our X-Force veteran threat hunter Neil Wyler (a.k.a “Grifter”) discovered nation-state attackers exfiltrating unencrypted, personally identifiable information (PII) from a company’s…
Boost SAP Security With Zero Trust
How can your organization improve its Systems Applications and Products (SAP) risk posture? Aligning with the key principles of zero trust through tangible and specific measures is one way. To…
How to Secure Your SAP Environment
The protection of the SAP systems, as mission-critical applications, is becoming the priority for the most relevant organizations all over the world. The security hardening of SAP systems is key…
Cloud Native Application Protection Platform: A Utility Knife for Cloud Security Services
Does the world need another acronym? Probably not. But it seems like one is born every day in the cybersecurity market. As a tradeoff for the brain power to recall…
Lessons Learned by 2022 Cyberattacks: X-Force Threat Intelligence Report
Every year, the IBM Security X-Force team of cybersecurity experts mines billions of data points to reveal today’s most urgent security statistics and trends. This year’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index…
X-Force Research Update: Top 10 Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities of 2021
From 2020 to 2021, there was a 33% increase in the number of reported incidents caused by vulnerability exploitation, according to the 2022 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. A large percentage…