Attacks against critical infrastructure and government agencies have been surging. Some attackers want to extort money; others intend to steal data. But the victims all have one thing in common:…
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A Journey in Organizational Cyber Resilience Part 1: The Human Factor
Organizational resilience is key to good business. Sometimes confused with enterprise resilience, we use the former term instead because it applies to a business or agency of any size. Let’s…
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…
Security Awareness Training: Beyond Cliche Advice for Remote Workers
I’ve read what seems like a million articles on how to make security awareness training more effective for remote workers. And honestly, they all seem to say the same thing.…
Spend Wisely (Not Just More) to Become Cyber Resilient
Spending on cybersecurity is hitting record highs. And that makes sense. Because of big changes in how work gets done (plus the rising cost of breaches and attacks, like ransomware),…
Thriving in Chaos: How Cyber Resilience Works
In cybersecurity as in most jobs, problems don’t happen one at a time, you’re bound to have a few at once. Speakers at the RSA Conference 2021 talked about this…
The Art and Strategy of Becoming More Cyber Resilient
In the military, the art of strategy is key. It teaches how to win a war through a series of battles, campaigns and tactics. In the cybersecurity world, we have…
Everyone Wants to Build a Cyber Range: Should You?
During the past six months, IBM X-Force has been seeing an unprecedented increase in requests to build cyber ranges. By cyber ranges, we mean facilities or online spaces that enable…
The Next-Gen Cyber Range: Bringing Incident Response Exercises to the Cloud
At IBM X-Force, we keep our customers on the cutting edge of cybersecurity experiences, centered around incident response, and these include responding in cloud native environments. What is cloud native?…
A More Effective Approach to Combating Software Supply Chain Attacks
Software supply chain attacks are not new, although, as we have seen recently, if executed successfully, they can have huge payoffs for sophisticated attackers. Detecting malicious code inserted into a…