We’ve grown accustomed to it by now — a few million accounts broken into here, another hundred million there. After a company data breach, what happens to all the data?…
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When Is an Attack not an Attack? The Story of Red Team Versus Blue Team
Cybersecurity experts fill our days with terminology from warfare, including jargon such as red team versus blue team. The concept of ‘red team’ has its origin in wargaming. The red…
How to Report Scam Calls and Phishing Attacks
With incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline infection and the Kaseya supply chain attack making so many headlines these days, it can be easy to forget that malicious actors are…
What Is the True Cost of a Health Care Data Breach?
The health care industry has remained the top data breach target for eleven years in a row. Highly sensitive and personally identifiable information (PII) held by health care systems is…
Trickbot Rising — Gang Doubles Down on Infection Efforts to Amass Network Footholds
IBM X-Force has been tracking the activity of ITG23, a prominent cybercrime gang also known as the TrickBot Gang and Wizard Spider. Researchers are seeing an aggressive expansion of the…
CISA Names 3 ‘Exceptionally Dangerous’ Behaviors to Avoid
In terms of database security, any bad practice is dangerous. Still, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently deemed some behavior as “exceptionally risky.” Are your teams engaged…
How to Fight Phishing: Don’t Get Fugu’ed!
Threat actors who deploy phishing and other attacks have an advantage: they don’t operate within any space of decent norms or legal jurisdiction. Accept that, and you quickly understand why…
A Journey in Organizational Resiliency: Governance
From governance comes everything else. It would be reasonable if this journey in organizational resilience started with the governance theme. In fact, many important standards or cybersecurity frameworks begin with…
Cybersecurity Awareness: How Much Data Can An Attacker Get From an Employee ID?
Cyber awareness may seem fairly obvious, but it’s not always. For example, you would never post a photo of your driver’s license on Facebook, right? How about your company ID…
What Is Data Protection and Why Does it Matter?
Data is at the center of business. For many organizations, digital adoption drives strategy. Data is essential to meeting customer needs, responding to sudden market shifts and unforeseen events. That’s…