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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Dissecting Sodinokibi Ransomware Attacks: Bringing Incident Response and Intelligence Together in the Fight
Ransomware actors are specializing, collaborating and assisting each other to conduct sophisticated attacks that are becoming increasingly difficult to prevent. Combating these groups effectively similarly requires a team approach —…
How to Quantify the Actual Cost of a Data Breach for Your Own Organization
As business leaders, we need to know what the biggest risks to our organizations are. All organizations face numerous disruptive challenges in today’s business environment that can create significant new…
How Ransomware Trends Are Changing Cyber Insurance
The world of cyber insurance is in a state of flux. The reason: ransomware creates huge financial impacts. And how it will change insurance in the future is unclear. The…
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…
Avoid Blind Spots: Is Your Incident Response Team Cloud Ready?
The year 2020 — with all its tumult — ushered in a massive shift in the way most companies work. Much of that transformation included migrating to cloud, with some…
“Our IT teams have an Incident Response Plan. We’re prepared for a cyberattack.” Maybe not.
Phishing attacks, insider threats, denial of service disruptions, malware and ransomware — cybersecurity incidents like these happen on a daily basis. For most of these incidents, the onsite IT team…
Ransomware Attack Response Should Extend Beyond Money to Your Team’s Morale
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…
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…