A staggering 96% of ransomware victims that agree to their extorters’ demands are subsequently forced to pay additional fees amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to CrowdStrike. The security vendor’s 2021 CrowdStrike Global Security Attitude Survey was compiled from interviews with 2200 senior IT and cybersecurity decision makers in the US, EMEA and APAC. It found that two-thirds (66%) of respondents had suffered at least one ransomware attack over the past year, with…

While corporate data centers supported by managed infrastructure services were once in the background supporting business operations, they have now moved to the forefront of strategic planning and targeted investment decisions.  Infrastructure and operations (I&O) models must change to empower businesses to embrace the digital age, innovate, and integrate their cloud-first strategies. The end is coming for the traditional infrastructure support model of procuring, provisioning, and supporting in-house infrastructure that enables new and upgraded enterprise…

Authored by: Carolyn Crandall, Chief Security Advocate, Attivo Networks When it comes to predicting the future, the science fiction genre has taken some big swings over the years. Unfortunately, it’s whiffed on quite a few of them. 2001: A Space Odyssey thought we’d be traveling to Jupiter by, well, 2001. Back to the Future thought we would have hoverboards and flying cars by 2015. And Blade Runner theorized that we would have murderous robots indistinguishable…

When was the last time you thought about all of the devices running on your network? Think of your home network and how deceptively simple it appears. A full inventory of that network would probably surprise you, as it would show all of the devices that you may have forgotten about as well as a few of the neighbor’s devices that are piggy-backing off of your Wi-Fi. This visibility is often shocking to many people. Now, think…

One of the most daunting problems in cybersecurity has always been security metrics. In business, practically nothing matters in the absence of the ability to measure actionable results. Profit and loss are the drivers of all businesses. Even non-profit based businesses use metrics to plot their mission and meet their goals. The problem with security metrics is that most times, they are not measured in what was achieved but rather what was prevented. Often, prevention is unverifiable. Can you measure…