Navigate Aftermath of SolarWinds Attack With On-Demand ResourcesÂ
The SolarWinds cybersecurity breach, also known as Sunburst, has made global headlines for its duration, impact, and high-profile targets. After going undetected for months, the news in December 2020 of the nation–state attack was the holiday surprise no ...
Data Privacy Program from Zero to HeroÂ
By Cecil Pineda | Senior Director of GRC vCISO at CRITICALSTART As I promised last week, here’s a short article on Developing and Implementing a Data Privacy Program. I hope you will like it ...
Balancing Act: How MOBILESOC can Ensure Cybersecurity while Protecting Time with Family
  By Tommy Scott, Senior Security Consultant | CRITICALSTART Closing the laptop and mentally disconnecting from work is a critical component of work-life balance. But there’s one problem: There are no ...
Windows Security Event Logs – What to Monitor?
The following is a table of event codes that I’ve found to be extremely valuable to log and monitor in an environment. Some trend more towards general environment health and activity monitoring, ...
How To Reverse Engineer the SolarWinds Hack
While there is a lot more functionality to this malware, we hope this basic reverse engineering overview and examples can help you get started reversing the binaries. These techniques are not unique ...
Second Round of Stimulus Provides New Opportunity for Online Scams
This week, Americans nationwide will begin receiving their second round of COVID-related stimulus checks. And just like with the first round, online scammers and malicious actors will no doubt be attempting to ...
Sunburst: A Week in Review
2020 isn’t going down quietly, and what an awful week it has been for the security community. If you were lucky enough to be on vacation, let’s catch up. Recap Heading into ...
Weighing the Value of Managed Security
 A shortage of skilled personnel is one of the most serious issues affecting security managers today. Add in challenges in maintaining a complete Security Operations Center (SOC) and the result can ...
Death to Vulnerability Management As We Know It
Vulnerability Management concepts are changing. The idea that vulnerability management is limited to scanning alone is being replaced with a wider and more comprehensive view. [...] Read More... The post Death to ...
Steps Educational Institutions Are Taking to Defend Their Infrastructures from Cyber Attackers
Just when we thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse, cyber attackers are finding new ways to capitalize on our highly technology-dependent society. They’ve always looked to industries like medical and manufacturing as ...
