Nirit Icekson

HolistiCyber

Recently, there’s been tremendous hype around artificial intelligence. For cybersecurity practitioners, it’s becoming increasingly important in developing a cybersecurity strategy. AI’s ability to scan millions of events in seconds while identifying anomalies and suspicious patterns is far superior to rule-based scans. It has applications in endpoint protection, securing IoT devices, ... Read More

As an industry, cybersecurity companies often talk about risk. However, we rarely take the time to explain what risk is or how it impacts organizations. It’s important to understand that risk is measured based on the negative impact it can have on the enterprise’s mission. Let’s look at a basic ... Read More

The relentless pace of cyberattacks in 2022 showed no signs of slowing down, leaving security leaders challenged to defend against an array of sophisticated threats in 2023. With global political instability and the quick payday available to cyber criminals, nation-state-grade attacks are the biggest concern. Our data indicates that Ransomware ... Read More

In our previous post, we looked at some of the major hacks that struck the entertainment industry and identified the industry’s reliance on third-party providers as a major vulnerability. Today, we’ll look at the steps the entertainment industry needs to take to protect assets from potential threats. As always, the ... Read More

There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to cybersecurity. Over the last six months, we have seen an escalation in the number of reported cyberattacks, in their range, sophistication and in their long-lasting impact on businesses such as the Colonial Pipeline attack, and SolarWinds to name just ... Read More

Gone are the days where nation-state-grade cyberattacks were the exclusive activity of state actors against state targets. Today, the situation has shifted. Nation-state-grade cyberattacks are still dominated by state actors, but increasingly, non-state attackers purchasing nation-state-grade cyberattack tools on the Darknet, are also leading cyberattacks against private enterprises and even ... Read More

Anatomy of a nation-state grade attack The 2020 Solar Winds attack, believed to have been launched by Russia’s Cozy Bear (AKA APT29), a Russian hacker group reputedly associated with Russian agencies such as FSB and/or SVR, was a nation-state grade attack. It stealthily “trojanized” an update of SolarWinds’ Orion, an ... Read More

The Awakening and What’s Behind President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on Cybersecurity There has never been a more opportune time to implement a pro-active cyber-defense strategy against Nation-State grade level threats for both the public and the private sectors in the US. The recent wave of cyber-offenses on government entities, ... Read More

According to Ran Shahor, CEO and co-founder of HolistiCyber, a successful cybersecurity strategy should start with a detailed plan. This should place your business requirements, budget, and security posture at the forefront of any other decisions you make to keep your company assets and data secured.  How do you build ... Read More

Despite the perceived breakneck pace of change since the start of the pandemic, many aspects of life remained the same. In 2017 a US Director of Intelligence paper explained how software supply chain attacks “circumvent traditional cyber defenses to compromise software to enable successful, rewarding, and stealthy methods to subvert large numbers ... Read More