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Enhance Cyber Defense with 2022 Cybersecurity Trends

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Enhance Cyber Defense with 2022 Cybersecurity Trends

To modernize your cybersecurity strategy, you must understand the imminent risks. Our Midyear Roundup Report helps CISOs and security leads anticipate what’s next, enabling a stronger cyber defense strategy to recognize, assess, and mitigate cyber threats. Trend Micro Midyear 2022 Cybersecurity Roundup Report Each summer, Trend Micro analyzes and correlates attack surface intelligence from approximately 400,000 commercial customers and 20 million consumer customers, alongside data lakes and partnering with third-party research firms. We also review…

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Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Security – SASE Part 3

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Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Security – SASE Part 3

How does it all work? First, it starts out with knowing your users and environment. By deploying sensors and integrating with common SaaS apps directly such as Microsoft Office, Google Workspace and many Identity Providers (Azure AD, Active Directory, Okta, etc.), a profile is built around the user and environment. This profile, made up of user and application behavior, can determine risk to the organization and suggest access control policies. Traffic from the ZTNA is…

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CISA Gov Alert: 2023-25 Plan Focuses on Unified Cybersecurity

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CISA Gov Alert: 2023-25 Plan Focuses on Unified Cybersecurity

Breakdown of CISA Strategic Plan Goals & Objectives A strategy is a Litmus test for evaluating alternate plans or a guide for investing scare resources. This document plan does not meet those requirements. Instead, it lists a set of noble aspirations and goals. Goal 1: Cyber Defense, and Goal 2: Risk Reduction and Resilience, are core to CISA’s mission to protect critical infrastructure. Goal 3: Operational Collaboration and Goal 4: Agency Unification, speak to the…

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Incident Response Services & Playbooks Guide

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Incident Response Services & Playbooks Guide

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022 Series No matter the size of a business, it faces the risk of a cyberattack. Over 50% of organizations experienced a cyberattack. And while proactive protection is ideal, there is no silver bullet when it comes to security—meaning you should plan for incident response as well. Yet, 63% of C-level executives in the US do not have an incident response plan, according to a report by Shred-It. That’s where an incident…

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Preventing Cryptocurrency Cyber Extortion

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Preventing Cryptocurrency Cyber Extortion

High value and anonymity have made cryptocurrency the de facto currency for cybercriminals—and made preventing cyber extortion top of mind for law enforcement and enterprises. Cybercriminals are looking beyond Bitcoin to stay hidden Researchers have recently shown how address-linking techniques can be used to tie Bitcoin addresses back to unique individuals. That’s called into question the fundamental value proposition of privacy that Bitcoin has staked its name on since its early days. Cybercriminals, already one…

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022: 3 Actionable Tips

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022: 3 Actionable Tips

Decrease the Risk Assessment Time Gap Towards Continuous Assessment Semi-annual penetration tests get a box checked and keep you out of compliance jail, but cybersecurity has moved to near-real time and so too must your assessment. Continuous monitoring has been an important goal, but we need to advance it to making continuous decisions based on that continuous monitoring. Even events such as authenticating to use a VPN are too infrequent to make actionable judgements: in…

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Red Teaming to Reduce Cyber Risk

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Red Teaming to Reduce Cyber Risk

Modern organizations are primarily focused on managing complexity introduced by digital transformation as well as data privacy and compliance requirements. Along with a widening digital attack surface and the rise in a work-from-anywhere labor force, it’s clear that there’s been a crisis of perception among security teams. One faction has become overlooked—the growing sophistication of threat actors and how to stay one step ahead. What is red teaming? A red or purple team engagement simulates a…

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Pros and Cons of 5G

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Pros and Cons of 5G

With the introduction of the 5G Stand Alone (SA) method for operating a 5G base station independently by an independent 5G core network, 5G will finally be able to simultaneously support three different requirements: enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) (high speed and large capacity), ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC), and massive machine type communication (mMTC) (ultra-mass terminal). Pros and Cons of 5G According to Deloitte Insights, there were 756 private network deployments in enterprises worldwide as of…

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Biden Cybersecurity Executive Order: Ex-US Secret Service Reflects

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Biden Cybersecurity Executive Order: Ex-US Secret Service Reflects

In response to the crippling ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, President Biden signed Executive Order 14028, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” on May 12, 2021. Biden’s Executive Order aimed to protect critical infrastructure from further attacks by modernizing the nation’s cybersecurity. Reflecting on the past 15 months, I look at the effectiveness of the Executive Order, its challenges, and what CISOs from businesses of all sizes and sectors can learn to strengthen their cybersecurity strategies. Overview…

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3 Hybrid Cloud Security Challenges & Solutions

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3 Hybrid Cloud Security Challenges & Solutions

The accelerated shift to the cloud was mostly borne out of necessity due to the influx of remote workers and changing customer demands requiring more business agility. According to Forrester, 94% of US enterprise infrastructure decision makers are using at least one type of cloud deployment. While there is a push to be cloud-native, the reality is that most companies will keep their “crown jewels” or critical systems on private clouds or on-prem, while leveraging…

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