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Slicing through CISA’s KEV Catalog
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Slicing through CISA’s KEV Catalog
Dive into the critical insights of CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog with Bitsight’s latest blog! Discover how KEVs, which signal urgent cybersecurity risks, are being tracked and mitigated across industries. Learn why addressing these vulnerabilities quickly is vital and how it impacts organizational security.
![Content Security Policy Limits Dangerous Activity… So Why Isn’t Everyone Doing It?](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/migration/images/shutterstock_599391605_1.jpg.webp?itok=wPwcjqHV)
Online services, e-commerce sites, videoconference, delivery services, and all other kinds of services are growing exponentially, exposing users and data to new risks and threats. Users expect that the sites and services they rely on are using best practices when it comes to security. But are they?
![The Competitive Advantage of a Strong Security Program](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/migration/images/shutterstock_1712588752_1.jpg.webp?itok=NgSZhupr)
In today’s competitive marketplace, more and more companies are realizing that maintaining a good security posture is a crucial market differentiator — playing an essential role in their ability to earn customer trust and protect their brand reputation. In fact, as stated in a recent Forrester study commissioned by Bitsight, Better Security and Business Outcomes With Security Performance Management, “companies win and lose business based on both real and perceived security performance challenges — meaning security is now responsible for protecting, enabling, and even creating, revenue growth opportunities.”
![BlueKeep Continues to Plague the World a Year After Emergence](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/migration/images/shutterstock_744577681_1.jpg.webp?itok=sLWrHO0e)
Since its advent in May 2019, BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) has been observed to pose risks to information security worldwide. It is a vulnerability associated with a wide range of Microsoft operating systems that affords a bad actor leverage to remotely execute malicious code on affected devices. Remediation involves updating to the latest Microsoft security patches released to mitigate BlueKeep. Sectors that use Microsoft products extensively and persist in using outdated software are particularly susceptible to this threat.
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With the expanding perimeter companies are creating as they move more of their business into the cloud, as well the addition of work-from-home network connections, there is a greater attack surface for hackers to penetrate. Focusing on these three attack surface risk reductions best practices will help security managers protect their programs.
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I started in May 2019, so it’s been almost a year. I started as a sales development rep (SDR). As an SDR, my role and my focus was to find the best potential prospects for my representatives. I was looking in the UK market and in South Africa. Basically, my goal was to find not only the right people, but also the right companies and organizations to connect with. I didn’t want to waste my rep’s time with a call that wasn’t worth it, and it was quite a challenge in the beginning because I didn’t have a tech background and I had to learn and study a lot.
Of course you want to speak with the CISO, CTO, and CSO, but sometimes you have the ESOs who are really cool people to speak to as well. You have to balance all this when you’re doing research. In the EMEA market it’s a different approach from what you guys do here in the US. You need to be very
Of course you want to speak with the CISO, CTO, and CSO, but sometimes you have the ESOs who are really cool people to speak to as well. You have to balance all this when you’re doing research. In the EMEA market it’s a different approach from what you guys do here in the US. You need to be very
![Lessons Learned From The Garmin Cyberattack](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/migration/images/shutterstock_1211178508_1.jpg.webp?itok=PNsDPpcm)
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.
![Discover and Mitigate Cyber Risk Across Your Cloud Environment](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/migration/images/shutterstock_222190471_1.jpg.webp?itok=IQs3d9wm)
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.
![Employee Spotlight](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/2022/02/18/employee%2520spotlight%2520banner_13.png.webp?itok=WGk1kwQh)
What do you do at Bitsight and when did you start?
I started at Bitsight in May 2018.
I started at Bitsight in May 2018.
![Easy Security Wins: How Patching and Software Updates Impact Your Cybersecurity](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/migration/images/shutterstock_761462383_1.jpg.webp?itok=t2sv58gF)
As companies continue to try and manage the massive changes to work driven by COVID-19, security teams have faced immense pressure to rise to the challenge and keep companies secure. In the face of the large scale shift to work from home, expansion of the vendor ecosystem and digital attack surface, and disruptions to operations, it’s vital that security teams focus their efforts on areas of risk concentration.
![Enhance Vulnerability Mitigation With Security Performance Management](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/migration/images/shutterstock_546191650_1.jpg.webp?itok=UtrMRyeZ)
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.
![Best Practices for Managing Third-party Risk in the Energy Sector](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/migration/images/shutterstock_1521170573_1.jpg.webp?itok=JTvTJ1LU)
Back in May this year, President Trump issued an executive order banning US energy sector entities from acquiring electric equipment from foreign adversaries, citing potential cybersecurity threats.
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There are layers of uncertainty plaguing security professionals when it comes to the time, money, and energy they spend focusing on their third-party risk management systems. Without the proper tools and analysis, it is hard to know if your program is effective.
![BitSight Data Highlights Vaccine Developer Vulnerabilities](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/migration/images/shutterstock_1673968429_1.jpg.webp?itok=1bsevYza)
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.
![Take Your Threat Intelligence Insights to the Next Level](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/migration/images/shutterstock_652587526_1.jpg.webp?itok=T3A-I9wW)
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.
![How Security Performance Management Fits Into Your Tech Stack](/sites/default/files/styles/4_3_small/public/migration/images/shutterstock_1381797128_1.jpg.webp?itok=VjLn9ZXX)
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.