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Wired highlights how Microsoft, along with Bitsight and others, disrupted the remains of the Necurs botnet—in coordination with law enforcement and internet service providers across 35 countries. Dan Dahlberg, Bitsight’s head of security research, shares more insight.
Eleven Necurs botnets, which infected more than nine million computers since 2012, have been severely disrupted by Microsoft who partnered with Bitsight. Read more.
Microsoft in a recent official article has shared that it disrupted one of the most dangerous Botnets “Necurs” with help from partners across 35 countries including Bitsight. Read more about the takedown.
At RSA Conference 2020, SearchSecurity asked several experts what they considered to be the biggest cybersecurity threat this year. According to Bitsight vice president of communications and government affairs Jake Olcott, it is that companies "are still struggling with doing the basics" when it comes to cybersecurity hygiene. Read more.
Jake Rheude, of Enterprise Times, discusses the challenges of patch management and mentions how Bitsight can help organizations as well as their nth parties to reduce this burden.
At the House of Lords on March 5, CTO and co-founder of Bitsight Stephen Boyer discussed research from Bitsight that found that the UK has slipped backwards in the last year in terms of its overall cybersecurity rating and is now behind Germany, Austria and Finland among the G7. Read more about his recommendations and analysis.
Read what Bitsight vice president Jake Olcott had to say about Ransomware payments and how companies and insurance companies could look at the situation. He and other experts also discussed the impact on society as a whole.
Training is an important element of cyber resiliency, said Stephen Boyer, co-founder and chief technology officer of Boston-based cyber security firm Bitsight.
“You absolutely must be training the humans and make them aware,” he said.
Read the rest of Stephen's interview with Matthew Lerner.
Bitsight's CEO, Steve Harvey, discusses how executive boards are now spending more time on security and that because of that, there needs to be a common language between the highly technical practitioners and the less technical board so that everyone can understand what’s being discussed.
Bitsight's VP, Jake Olcott, explains that stress and burnout are “perhaps the biggest threats to corporate security” as “[l]ong hours, alert overload, and a lack of visibility into their business’ IT infrastructure have many security professionals reconsidering their chosen careers. This is contributing to a massive cybersecurity skills shortage that is creating real security threats at companies across the globe.” Read the article here.
Bitsight's Jake Olcott discusses how objective, external third party evaluation of a company’s security status is a strong method to use towards securing cyber-insurance.
Bitsight's Jake Olcott discusses how security rating services may prove to be one of the most practical cyber-security solutions now coming into play.
Bitsight's Tom Montroy discusses protection options for Window's 7 users after Microsoft ends extended support.
Jake Olcott, vice president, Bitsight, told The Hill that in order to counter potential cyberattacks from Iran, it may boil down to both government and industry paying attention to stepping up “basic” cybersecurity protections.
The Bitsight platform provides Bayer a Security Rating between 250 and 900, which is continuously updated based on the data observed; the higher the rating, the better the vendor’s security posture. This programme has now commenced and will be evaluated after six months, but the team at Bayer is convinced that they will quickly see the benefits.