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Driving a Security First Culture: Start by Focusing on the Basics
Cyberattacks aren’t going away any time soon. Rather, we should expect such attacks to only increase in frequency. That means the real question is how do organizations provide more effective protections for their employees, partners, and customers? We need to...
Securing IT-OT Environments: Why IT Security Professionals Struggle
When providing cybersecurity in converged IT and operational technology environments, it’s critical for infosec pros to understand the differences between the two and utilize a toolset that delivers a comprehensive picture of both in a single view.
Why Defense-in-Depth is Key to Defeating Ransomware
Ransomware – Still Going Strong and No End in Sight Preventing ransomware attacks is top of mind for everyone from IT admins, CISOs, CEOs to governments. And while it’s not a new problem, an unrelenting series of successful and devastating ransomware attacks has...
How to Strengthen Active Directory and Prevent Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware attacks do not always follow the same steps, but addressing these three trends will allow you to secure Active Directory and disrupt attacks. Attacks are plaguing organizations around the world every day. New ransomware variants, new exploits, more...
How to Discover and Continuously Assess Your Entire Attack Surface
To eliminate network blind spots and fully understand your entire attack surface, it's essential to determine which discovery and assessment tools are required for each asset type. If you've been in security for more than a few years, you've undoubtedly watched...
Mobile Communications: The Right Gear at the Right Time
by Dan Morris, Director of Solutions Engineering at Klas Government You can’t take it with you. We’ve all heard that before. It’s come to mean many things to different people. One thing we can’t take with us is the fixed infrastructure and massive data centers that...
Busting 5 Common Myths About Vulnerability Assessment
Don't let misconceptions stand in your way – get the facts on five common myths about vulnerability assessment. The simple truth of vulnerability assessment is that it's not always an easy task to accomplish, especially if you're new to it. Complications arise, and...
The Future of P2P IoT Botnets
The internet of things (IoT) has created a new domain for botnet developers to compete and thrive in. Already, there they battle one another for devices while their victims contend with persisting infections. But the involvement of a well-known file-sharing...
Backdoors Are Hard to Spot, But Not Who Is Using Them
Cybersecurity people have been generally outspoken that backdoors are bad. When governments or intelligence agencies suggest that a phone, cryptography tool, or product have a backdoor installed, both blue and red teams agree that it’s a very bad idea....
Cyber Hygiene: 5 Advanced Tactics to Maximize Your Risk Reduction
All businesses can significantly boost their information security by implementing fundamental elements of cybersecurity – vulnerability scanning, patch application, antivirus and anti-malware tools, firewalls and companywide security policies featuring...