Cybersecurity for the Public Sector: Partnering with Carahsoft   The public sector is on alert. Cyber breaches occur at an accelerated rate; attackers are getting more intelligent, more sophisticated, and better funded. Government agencies are hypervigilant in their cybersecurity posture response, and the Biden Administration is committed to restoring cybersecurity ... Read More

The Colonial Pipeline attack on Saturday, May 5th, 2021 represents another in a series of advanced cyber threats, and one of the most serious incidents targeting supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) networks. According to the FBI, this attack was perpetrated by Darkside, a Russian hacking group. This analysis is ... Read More

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are the foundation that support numerous industries around the world. They form the backbone of industrialized society, including energy and power grids, food and beverage plants, oil and gas refineries, recycling plants, transportation systems, water treatment plants, manufacturing facilities and many more. Critical infrastructures are so ... Read More

Almost every week we see new examples of highly sophisticated organizations and enterprises falling victim to another nation-state cyberattack or other security breach. These attacks are circumventing staple security products such as next-gen firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, web and endpoint security defenses, web application firewalls and database monitoring solutions. Breaches continue ... Read More

Well Designed, Yet Highly Vulnerable Despite being decades old, SCADA control systems remain well-designed to this day. They bring multiple moving parts together - computers, networks, data communications and user interfaces - to manage machinery and engineered components of industrial systems. These systems weren’t originally unsafe. The system developers weren’t ... Read More

We sat down with Satya Gupta, Virsec's CTO and Founder, as well as the creator of the Virsec Security Platform, to discuss the technical details of application-aware workload protection.    What Does Application-Aware Mean? Application awareness” is an important term to understand. Having effective application-aware protection on your workloads means ... Read More

One of the most pressing challenges government entities and the public sector face is how to maintain existing and outdated IT systems without the budgetary, labor or infrastructure resources required to upgrade them. Hiring freezes, layoffs, talent loss and shortages, as well as up-skilling and infrastructure modernization initiatives are made ... Read More

We are thrilled to announce the latest release of our security platform, Virsec Security Platform (VSP) 2.0, a powerful solution for container workload protection with runtime visibility and zero-dwell-time defense throughout running container images, including binaries, libraries, interpreted code and memory. What’s Different About 2.0? Our new solution enhances the ... Read More

Prestigious healthcare systems continue to be at risk for the next devastating ransomware attack or data breach.  Defending against attacks while staying compliant with patient and data security regulations is difficult, but not impossible if you have the right security tools deployed. The Impact of COVID-19 in Healthcare Security Continues ... Read More

Last week we discussed the Four Tenets of Zero Trust Workload Protection. This week we're taking a closer look at the renewed buzz around the concept of Zero Trust security. Guidelines from the NSA, NIST, and even Google, are all touting the benefits of Zero Trust. According to the NSA: “The ... Read More