MSSP articles

Organizational risk is no longer limited to the office. It has spread to the cloud, third parties, and employee devices. We discuss why mobile device security needs to be made a priority.

New HIPAA regulations now demand adherence. Find out what’s required.

As the cybersecurity vendor market matures, it’s hard to know what’s best for your organization.

We know what you’re thinking. Should the word “beachhead” be “breachhead”?

Seasonal fun – with a gently serious side.

Organizations are becoming more aware of the need for MDR (managed detection and response) services to achieve real cyber resiliency. The increase in the quantity and sophistication of cyberattacks means that other, siloed solutions, fall short of fully protecting your organization. Whereas no one can guarantee that you won’t fall victim to a cyberattack, the use of MDR significantly decreases that risk and its overall impact. Implementing MDR also gives you the greatest chance of effectively and rapidly recovering from […]

As cyber threats became more evolved and sophisticated, the cybersecurity industry responded by developing more complex technologies. These technologies included the ability to detect intrusions through behavioral analysis, as well as advanced technologies for determining patterns from numerous data sources that indicate a compromise or that an unauthorized user is lurking in an organization’s network. Each advancement improved the ability of cybersecurity professionals to combat cyber threats, but it also started siloing cybersecurity solutions. Eventually, multiple technologies and tools existed […]

You’ve put a lock on your door. Why not add eight more, just to be sure? The cybersecurity industry will sell you as many tools as you are willing to buy, so why not run them all?

The cybersecurity vendor market is quite complicated and it’s easy to get lost in the acronym soup. Whether it’s to make their product sound different or just the proclivity of the tech industry to abbreviate everything, it can be incredibly challenging for non-security people to understand what’s important and what isn’t. Making matters worse, many of the services overlap, meaning that you can invest in two “different” services or platforms and end up getting the same thing in both. One […]

Enterprises are juicy cyberattack targets for several reasons. They provide an enormous quantity of user data that hackers can exfiltrate; and, equally important, enterprises have the budget to pay large sums in ransomware attacks. Additionally, many enterprises deal with government contracts and house sensitive information that hostile nations are interested in. Enterprise security monitoring is essential when the stakes are this high. Let’s dive into what those stakes are, and how security monitoring can help. How can enterprise security monitoring […]

Some cybercriminals don’t probe your network to unleash a ransomware attack. Some of them just want login secrets to sell on for the next wave of cybercriminality.

Vulnerability management is an essential element of every cybersecurity plan. It involves the ongoing monitoring of a company’s digital footprint to find and fix any vulnerabilities in devices, systems, and applications that bad actors could exploit. It decreases a company’s risk exposure and is a proactive way of ensuring threat actors can’t gain access to a company’s private data. It’s also a huge undertaking. Many applications, including those that are cloud-based, that companies use need to be checked and patched […]

The manufacturing sector has suffered the highest percentage of cyberattacks of any sector for three years in a row, according to IBM’s latest X-Force Threat Intelligence Report. Of the top 10 attacked sectors, manufacturing suffered 25.7% of all attacks, followed by finance and insurance at 18.2%. The highest “action on objective”—meaning “the cyber attacker’s end goal”—was malware. Ransomware represented 17% of actions on objective. The same report reveals that 85% of attacks on critical infrastructure could have been prevented with […]

The financial services industry has historically been one of the most targeted industries for cyberattacks, and it’s not difficult to imagine why. Roughly 95% of attacks are financially motivated, and hackers are going directly to the source by targeting the financial services sector. Not only do these financial institutions have direct access to cash, they also tend to be high-revenue businesses that can’t afford to be disrupted or take a reputational hit, so they’re more likely to pay a ransom.  […]