12 Hot Takes on How Red Teaming Takes Pen Testing to the Next Level
Offensive security measures like penetration testing can help enterprises discover the common vulnerabilities and exploitable weaknesses that could put an them at risk of costly cybersecurity incidents. By pitting white hat hackers against an organization's deployed infrastructure, organizations can gain a better understanding of the flaws they should fix first—namely ... Read More
5 Tools Out of Black Hat to Gain Better IoT Visibility
Even in the COVID era, August can't officially start for the cybersecurity community without Black Hat USA researchers offering up some juicy exploit announcements and dropping useful security tools onto GitHub. This year's event is fully virtual, which means no rockin' Vegas parties—but still plenty of interesting research lined up ... Read More
10 Stats About SOC Performance, Practices, and Analyst Attitudes in 2020
Recent studies show that the modern SOC has evolved to become the lynchpin for most enterprise security strategies. Organizations spend a significant chunk of their security budget on SOC operations and many depend upon the SOC to help them detect and hunt for threats, respond to incidents, and maintain visibility ... Read More
Cloud Security Spending to Buoy the Security Market in 2020
Enterprises are putting the brakes temporarily on security spending amid the chaos of the global pandemic, but analysts believe that 2020 will still see growth in the market. A new worldwide security and risk management spending forecast released by Gartner this week updated numbers downward, with the firm projecting infosec ... Read More
Building Sustainable CISO Succession Paths
The CISO role is rapidly evolving as organizations put more responsibility on the plates of their security and risk executives, particularly within large enterprises. In spite of that, a new survey report from security consulting firm Kudelski Security indicates that there is still "no well defined path to becoming a ... Read More
Compliance Costs Are Eating Security Budgets
The cost of cybersecurity compliance is rising to unsupportable levels and enterprises are going to need to act soon if they are to keep the situation from hindering innovation, according to a new report. Conducted jointly by analyst firm Omdia and security advisory consultancy Coalfire, the study shows that over ... Read More
7 Hot Takes on Cyber Incident Response Planning
When you fail to plan, you plan to fail. And according to a plurality of veteran security experts, far too many organizations today plan to fail at cyber incident response ... Read More
DDoS Attack Stats Accelerate in Quarantine Era
Even as internet and cloud solution providers are scrambling to reliably handle increased traffic due to the sudden shifts to distributed workforces in the face of COVID-19, they're also battling strains against their bandwidth from a decidedly less legitimate front. According to several pieces of research out recently, DDoS attackers ... Read More
Ransomware Crooks Emboldened by More Payments, Experiments in ‘Customer’ Experience
A new report out from CyberEdge Group showed that ransomware attacks broke the record books again last year as criminals were carried to more profitable highs by two new prevailing trends. The first trend is that ransom payers are more successfully recovering their data, which leads to the second trend, ... Read More
7 Cyberattacks Against Pandemic-Stressed Healthcare Orgs
It's only been a couple weeks since our team at Business Insights predicted that healthcare organizations would still be targeted by cybercriminals amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The prognostications are proving sadly accurate. Pandemic or no, healthcare cyberattacks keep coming—in spite of some cybercriminals' promises to the contrary ... Read More
