A ransomware attack can hurt employee morale in unique ways compared to other types of attacks. Depending on how the company reacts, employee morale can drop, and security teams become…
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Try These Best Practices to Counter Common Cybersecurity Risks
Since the beginning of the pandemic, ransomware and other cyber attacks have spiked. Meanwhile, millions of people have shifted from working in offices to working remotely. Organizations are increasingly relying…
Try These Best Practices to Counter Common Cybersecurity Risks
Since the beginning of the pandemic, ransomware and other cyber attacks have spiked. Meanwhile, millions of people have shifted from working in offices to working remotely. Organizations are increasingly relying…
Try These Best Practices to Counter Common Cybersecurity Risks
Since the beginning of the pandemic, ransomware and other cyber attacks have spiked. Meanwhile, millions of people have shifted from working in offices to working remotely. Organizations are increasingly relying…
What Every Incident Response Plan Needs
A record number of digital attacks occurred in 2020. The FBI’s Cyber Division received as many as 4,000 complaints about digital attacks in one day early last year. That’s 400%…
Combating Sleeper Threats With MTTD
During the SolarWinds Orion supply chain compromise, threat actors lurked in the victim’s network for more than a year. Discovered by FireEye in December 2020, the earliest traces of a…
Wake Me Up Before You Know Know … About the Latest Third-Party Data Breach
“It has gotten to the point, unfortunately, where they are so frequent and common these days, that it’s like, here we go again,” Christopher Sitter says when I asked him about…
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?…
5 Cybersecurity Best Practices For Planning Ahead
Putting best practices in place is the most efficient way to combat cybersecurity threats. But that’s easier said than done, as there are a lot of forces working against our…
Ransomware Response: Time is More Than Just Money
The initial actions an organization takes in the moments after discovering a ransomware attack can have profound implications on how the attack ends. Virtually every security professional will tell you…