Insights blog.

In the cybersecurity industry we deal with news of breaches or potential threats nearly every day, but when you really think about it, it’s bizarrely rare how little these events impact our everyday lives. Yes, they impact the professional lives of many and have serious business consequences, but perhaps one reason for the lack of urgency society seems to show on the issue is that these tend to be fairly low visibility events for the average person. Even something like the Target or Capital One breaches happened at a remove for most people in the world, with little impact on our daily lives.

Did you know that the volume of attacks on cloud services more than doubled in 2019? According to the 2020 Trustwave Global Security Report, cloud environments are now the third most targeted environment for cyber attacks. While these incidents are on the rise, migrating to the cloud is no longer optional for many organizations, due to the widespread shift to remote work. In today’s ever-evolving, dynamic security landscape, mitigating risk effectively requires thorough cloud security monitoring and continued visibility into your expanding attack surface.

Did you know that 60% of breaches involve vulnerabilities for which a patch was available but not applied? Now, as business-targeted cyber attacks are on the rise, the ability to mitigate security vulnerabilities quickly and effectively is more important than ever. With malicious actors constantly on the hunt to discover any weaknesses within your infrastructure, it’s critical that you have the tools and insights you need to identify and defend against all possible exploits.

As the biomedical community rushes to develop vaccines to combat COVID-19, malicious actors are seeking to steal the sensitive intellectual property that underpins treatment.

As your attack surface grows and the threat environment becomes increasingly complex, it’s more important than ever to take a risk-based approach to cybersecurity. By doing so, you can focus your limited resources on the areas that have the biggest impact on your security performance — empowering you to save time and money. 

In our ever-evolving, dynamic cybersecurity landscape, new vulnerabilities are being exploited daily and potential threats can escalate very quickly. Expectations and standards of care are constantly in flux — and what constituted “adequate” security yesterday may not be enough today. As the attack surface continues to grow, it’s more important than ever that you can quickly identify and remediate cybersecurity gaps that exist within your infrastructure.

Working from home introduces significant cyber risk to any organization. However, recent events reveal that it’s not a case of “if” but “when” bad actors will exploit the rampant vulnerabilities on home networks.

This week the New York Times released a report warning that a group of Russian hackers going by the name “Evil Corp” has been attempting to exploit the rampant vulnerabilities presented by the US workforce shifting to working from home at remote offices, raising fears that major U.S. brands, news organizations, or even election systems could be disrupted with ransomware attacks. The research, conducted by Symantec, revealed that 31 large U.S. corporations, including Fortune 500 companies and news organizations, have fallen victim to Evil Corp, and those are just the ones we know about.

In today’s ever-evolving, increasingly complex threat landscape, it’s more important than ever to have the necessary insights and resources to make data-driven security performance management decisions. 

As cloud services increase in popularity, a worrying cybersecurity trend has emerged. According to the 2020 Trustwave Global Security Report, the volume of attacks on cloud services more than doubled in 2019 and accounted for 20% of investigated incidents. Although corporate and internal networks remain the most targeted domains, representing 54% of incidents, cloud environments are now the third most targeted environment for cyber attacks.

Over the last several years Shadow IT has grown from a minor annoyance into a major threat to business operations. While the term is often used to refer to runaway tech spending by users in marketing or dev-ops or finance, it has in fact become a much larger issue that involves the very core of organizational infrastructure with the potential to pose enormous cyber risk.

In the world of cybersecurity, there’s one ultimate truth that applies in every scenario: You can’t secure what you can’t see. Making informed, comparative decisions about your digital ecosystem requires you to understand where all your critical assets live — and any inherent risks present there. With as much as 75% of the workforce shifting to remote work in some industries, this visibility is more critical than ever.

The cornerstone of digital transformation is the migration of apps and data to the cloud. There are obvious benefits to doing this. Businesses become more nimble and agile, and the cost of maintenance and development is off-loaded to a third-party. The benefits are so profound that, as of 2019, 84% of businesses used cloud-based SAAS (software as a service) apps. 

Security leaders are increasingly making their cases through metrics. Data-driven measurement of cybersecurity performance can be used to justify spending, quantify risk, and more. 

It’s often said that our reputation precedes us. When it comes to the damage that can be done by a cybersecurity incident, that couldn’t be more true. In today’s security-focused world, a single breach can dramatically impact the public perception of your organization, ultimately leading to a loss of business and a hit to your bottom line.