Data backup and recoverability are more than just a budget line item – they are the last line of defense for businesses and will be the most valuable asset they have when suffering from a ransomware attack.
Cyber Security
Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.
So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.
It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.
Popular collaboration tool Slack is the latest to suffer a security breach involving its GitHub repositories, with the company reporting that private source code was stolen in late December.
The CircleCI security breach leaves most of its CI/CD platform clients with a pile of time-consuming cleanup of assorted keys, tokens and variables as they are forced to immediately rotate secrets.
Layered security means using various complementary technologies, systems, and processes to ensure reactive and proactive defenses against cyber threats. For optimal security, these many systems and technologies must share information.
API security flaws on millions of vehicles from 16 car manufacturers expose them to unauthorized remote control, account takeovers, and personal information disclosure. Multiple car manufacturers using nearly identical car systems with almost similar functionality.
The resources to get past traditional MFA solutions are now available to even the most rudimentary hackers, and many MFA platforms simply aren’t designed to keep up – with either hackers or evolving guidelines.
Dark web forum posts indicate that low- or even no-skill threat actors have figured out how to manipulate ChatGPT instructions to get it to produce basic but viable malware.
Ukraine argues that Russian cyber attacks that target civilians via infrastructure impacts are coordinated with kinetic military attacks, and should be classified as war crimes.
The software supply chain attack surface is a lot more complicated now, and can be compromised at every stage. Developers are the new high-value targets and we have seen developers fall victim to stolen credentials and secrets, compromised workstations, CI/CD attacks and malicious packages that end up in source code.
The sudden announcement of an FAA system outage that grounded all flights nationwide immediately raised natural concerns about a cyber attack, but the agency is saying that the incident was a "glitch" caused by a damaged database file.










