As a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), you have the responsibility of not only directing your organization’s security but also conveying your risk status to leadership. The stakes are high. According to Cybersecurity Magazine, 60% of small businesses go out of business within six months of falling victim to a data breach or cyber attack.
Read More >A data breach can have extremely negative impacts on businesses, including financial losses as well as harm to their reputation with clients, customers, and workers.
Read More »According to Forbes, “every company is now a reachable target” for threat actors. Advanced measures — such as penetration testing — have become a valuable component of cybersecurity for many organizations worldwide that seek to harden their security posture and stop threat actors in their tracks.
Read More »Password cracking is a popular method used by hackers worldwide to ultimately gain access to sensitive data, making it vital for organizations to ensure their passwords are strong enough to withstand the most advanced password-cracking hacks.
Read More »Companies are producing an exponential amount of data every day and by 2025, it’s estimated that there will be about 181 zettabytes of data. As your organization grows, so will the amount of data it requires to operate, opening up more opportunities for hackers to exploit your organization.
Read More »If you want to see how your organization would stack up against threat actors, there is a way to do so without risking a data breach. Red Team vs. Blue Team penetration testing is a safe way to identify vulnerabilities within your systems, networks, and internal infrastructure. But it doesn’t stop there. This elite form of a pentest can show you what a threat actor accomplishes even if your cybersecurity posture is well established. Below, we’ll tackle the three differences between the Red Team and the Blue Team for this engagement.
Read More »Cyberattacks have posed a significant threat to organizations across the world, creating an urgency to take the necessary measures to shore up your network security to prevent catastrophic damage to your business.
Read More »Data breaches in 2022 were abundant and sophisticated. Realistically, it’s expected that this year we will continue to see threat actors test their limits and find new ways to infiltrate cybersecurity defenses and steal or exploit private data — potentially costing organizations billions of dollars in damages. But how do threat actors do it? Pivoting is the name of the technique that many threat actors would consider their number one weapon.
Read More »Even if your business has a mature cybersecurity program, there may be one vulnerability that threat actors can still use to steal your company data: your employees. Social engineering has evolved over the years as threat actors deploy new methods of fooling their targets — untrained employees — into granting access to the inner workings of your organization.
Read More »Although threat actors are constantly utilizing new tradecraft and tools to pose a real threat against organizations, cybersecurity experts — including white hat hackers — stand against these threats with innovative techniques and tools of their own. Penetration testing is one such tool used to find the weaknesses in an organization’s cybersecurity measures. These cyber-attack simulations can either be done by software (automated penetration testing) or by cybersecurity experts known as pentesters (manual penetration testing).
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