Utilities and Cybersecurity: Keeping the Lights On – Both On and Offline
Utilities have a very unique challenge in the cyber arena. You are not only responsible for keeping up with the evolving threats that plague other organizations, but also keeping people’s lifelines open. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZVuF3LgIR0 Just look at what is happening in Texas right now. Thousands of people are without power and ... Read More
Nation-State Attacks Can Happen to Anyone – Including Security Researchers
Early last week Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) posted a blog outlaying a nation-state attack targeting security researchers. Using social engineering and social media these threat actors were able to create “credibility” within the industry. They claimed false credit for vulnerabilities and interacted with researchers under the guise of wanting to ... Read More
Weekly Cyber Breakdown
With so much information out there it’s good to know what is top of mind for other industry professionals. We’ll be updating this blog on a weekly basis with the top 10 articles and newsworthy topics in cybersecurity. This is a repository of top trends based on what industry leaders ... Read More
Cyber Threats in 2021: What to watch out for
December 2020 was a massive month in cybersecurity. Between SolarWinds, FireEye, and Microsoft, every cyber professional was on edge, and we can expect to see our fair share of notable attacks this year as well. So what can we do about it? Our nation-state grade cyber defense experts pulled their ... Read More
The 12 Days of Security
We are all familiar with the (verrrrrry long) holiday favorite 12 Days of Christmas. While security goes WELL beyond 12 days, we wanted to share 12 of our resources to help you in your cyber defense journey this holiday season. https://youtu.be/sdJq7sUPgP8 A Weekly Cyber Breakdown Every week our team uses ... Read More
SolarWinds: Preventing and Hunting other MSP Attacks
The SolarWinds breach has again exposed the trusted supply chain as a favored method of cyber-attack. Nation-state level threat actors compromised its software updates in order to rollout backdoor access among its customer base. The network management and monitoring powerhouse has upwards of 300,000 customers across enterprise and government, so ... Read More
Red Team vs. Blue Team: Discussing the Divide
Peter Cohen, Managing Director, EMEA Red vs Blue – most people in cybersecurity agree that the gap between the two sides of the industry remains vast. Red-teams work with potent combinations of creativity, training, research, and industry kudos. This is just as well if they are to replicate the kind ... Read More
FireEye Breach: What to Know
Who is FireEye? FireEye provides cybersecurity products (endpoint and network) to detect and prevent against advanced threats. A few years ago FireEye bought Mandiant, one of the world’s premier cybersecurity consultancies, particularly in Incident Response. Together, the product and consulting business has had success worldwide and has several government contracts ... Read More
Bringing Security into Compliance
Security teams are already overwhelmed with keeping up with threats and protecting the network and the data that flows within it. Especially when working in a highly regulated industry such as finance, healthcare, or utilities, it can be a real challenge to keep up with all the changes in regulation ... Read More
The State of the Nation: Incident Report in the U.K.
“Phishing incidents are up 56% between 2019 and 2020, and hardware/software misconfigurations are up 44%.” We are all familiar with the Verizon Data Breach Report: it’s a guidebook on where the cyber world is with incidents globally. While this is an invaluable asset to the industry each part of the ... Read More
