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Blog – Balbix

One common pain point we hear from our Fortune 1000 customers, like the following from a CISO at a major US-based telecommunications company, is quite revealing- “Now we’ve got activities coming from Leadership, legal, the board of directors, all sorts of people calling and saying, ‘Hey, what’s our cybersecurity posture, ... Read More

Every security team recognizes that endpoint security tools/controls, such as Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), e.g., CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Trend Micro, are critical for security and compliance. But, not all endpoints are protected by an EDR tool. The gaps in coverage occur for many reasons, such as unmanaged devices, misconfigured ... Read More

Lost in Translation: The Disjointed Realities of Cyber Risk Interpretation In a classic tale from ancient India, a few blindfolded individuals approach an elephant, each examining a different part. One touches the trunk and believes it resembles a snake. Another feels a leg and thinks it’s a tree. Yet another, ... Read More

From Disregard to Nightmares: The Evolving CFO’s Perspective on Cybersecurity A few years ago, CFOs commonly delegated cybersecurity responsibilities to the IT department, viewing it as a minor operational detail. However, a recent episode within the consumer goods industry showcased the profound implications of this oversight. A cyber intrusion drastically ... Read More

Slow Integrations Undermine Your Defense Organizations typically have a vast array of cybersecurity tools and systems, each engineered to protect against specific adversarial attacks, either proactively or reactively—for example, Firewalls, IDS, and IPS for defense against unauthorized activities and access. You also have endpoint protection against malware, vulnerability management tools ... Read More

Drowning in Data, Yet Thirsty for Insight: A CISO’s Conundrum Sarah, the battle-hardened CISO, oversees a formidable array of cybersecurity tools. Her organization has invested in next-gen IDS/IPS, state-of-the-art firewalls, and MFA protocols. They’ve even ventured into EDR, Zero Trust architecture, and vulnerability management tools to detect and remediate vulnerabilities ... Read More

This blog is part 2 of our ongoing series focused on reshaping trust in CRQ. In the earlier part of this blog series, we delved deep into the challenges plaguing the world of CRQ. We underscored how the pervasive lack of trust and accountability in conventional methods has led to ... Read More

With this blog, we begin the series dedicated to exploring the nuances of cyber risk quantification. In the fast-evolving world of cybersecurity, trust is both a necessity and a challenge. CISOs routinely come across tools and techniques that promise effective Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ). However, a lingering question remains: Can ... Read More

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, recently tweeted– “We had a significant issue in ChatGPT due to a bug in an open-source library, for which a fix has now been released and we have just finished validating. A small percentage of users were able to see the titles of other users’ conversation history ... Read More

One of the early memories of my life is that of our family getting together on weekends and playing a game of Scrabble. For those who aren’t familiar, Scrabble is a word game in which players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board ... Read More