Report: 62% Organizations Are Not Confident in Their Security Posture
Are you curious about how your cybersecurity posture compares to your peers? Read on, we have some answers for you. Balbix and Cybersecurity Insiders recently conducted a survey on cybersecurity posture management challenges and concerns. The 2022 State of Cybersecurity Posture Report is based on survey responses from ~300 IT ... Read More
10 Things to NOT Say to Your Infosec Valentine…Ever
Love may be in the air for all in the month of February, but for us infosec folks there are a lot of other, less desirable things also floating over the air waves (I mean networks, internet, …). While I usually write informative articles for CISOs and cybersecurity pros, there’s ... Read More
Curating Log4j and Log4shell Memes
Infosec folks are in for a busy holiday season ahead. A lot of us will not be able to get any downtime thanks to Log4shell. (For a quick refresher on Log4shell and Log4j, check out this blog for an executive summary.) In the short time since Log4shell was discovered, there ... Read More
What’s the Dumbest Security Advice You’ve Ever Heard?
Recently, Twitter user Sean Gallagher, Threat Researcher and former Cybersecurity Editor, posed this question to his 25K followers: what’s the dumbest security advice you’ve ever heard? At last check, his post had received over 400 replies ranging from funny to the obvious and everything in between. We have curated the ... Read More
Re-Evaluating CISO Goals for the Rest of 2021
Now that we are 2/3 of the way through 2021, it is time to re-evaluate some of the cybersecurity goals you may have set at the beginning of the year and check whether you’re making progress. This is also a good time to readjust priorities and make any course corrections ... Read More
3 Must-Do’s to Restore Home-Field Advantage in Cybersecurity
If you’re a sports fan, you know that home-field advantage is the tendency of athletes to win more often when competing at their home facility. And this is not just a belief, but is supported by a number of research studies. In cybersecurity, the infosec teams should have the home ... Read More
A Purposeful Mission and a Culture of Innovation Fuels Balbix
Our CEO and Founder Gaurav Banga recently shared a post (excerpted below, full post here) on LinkedIn which talked about how cybersecurity is now a big data problem. “With the exploding enterprise attack surface, there are practically unlimited permutations and combinations of methods that attackers use to breach organizations. Enterprises ... Read More
Patch Tuesday Update – July 2021
Zero-days galore and lots more… July 2021 Patch Tuesday contains fixes for 117 vulnerabilities in total, with 9 zero-days amongst them. This is across the Microsoft suite of products, by far the most in a month this year. Products impacted by this latest security update include Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Excel, ... Read More
Using Automation to Kick Your Cybersecurity Program Into High Gear
Steve Zalewski is the Interim CISO at Levi Strauss & Co., and an esteemed member of the Balbix Advisory Board. Balbix founder and CEO Gaurav Banga recently met Steve for a chat on how organizations can kick their cybersecurity programs into high gear to keep up with the attackers and ... Read More
The ABCs of a Good Cybersecurity Program and Why CISOs Struggle With Them
Recently, Gaurav Banga, Founder & CEO of Balbix sat down with forward-leaning cybersecurity leader, Mike Britton, CISO of Abnormal Security, formerly CISO of Alliance Data for a candid conversation about why the basic A, B, Cs of infosec are so difficult for many organizations to implement. The ensuing discussion surfaced ... Read More
