Protecting Web Apps Protects the Company and Customers Web application security refers to the measures and practices taken to protect web applications from unauthorized access, data breaches, and other malicious activities. It involves implementing relevant...
Business Uptime Customers rely on businesses to store and share sensitive information such as customer data, financial records, and proprietary information. A data breach can disrupt business operations, causing significant financial losses. Many industries are...
Compliance is a critical aspect of security management and staying compliant can seem daunting. According to IBM's 2022 Cost of a Data Breach Report compliance failures reached an average cost of USD 5.57 million. While compliance is not an all-encompassing approach...
Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Tests It’s well known that a vulnerability assessment is not a penetration test. This is often said to point to the superiority of a penetration test (pentest). Pentests are definitely superior in that they recreate what a...
Penetration testing involves numerous tasks involving different stages. Frameworks provide penetration testers a structure to follow, keeping the details and activities from becoming chaos.
(source: pablo.buffer.com) Managed Service Providers MSPs provide invaluable services to companies with minimal or no IT staff. When prospects sign on as customers, they're expecting the experts to be ready at a moment's notice to fix any issues based on their...
The Need for Data Security Protection In March 2021, Formal Opinion 498 was release by the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility of the American Bar Association. These rules guide lawyers, when conducting virtual legal practices, as follows: "In...
Image courtesy of pixabay.com Recent Events In mid-August 2021, a major financial services giant reported a data leakage on its site and mobile app that allowed customers to view the data of other customers. For financial firms like this one, two of the highest costs...
Figure 1 - photo from pixabay.com SIM-swap fraud is an increasingly widespread means for hackers to steal access to your phone number and then your identity. We will explain how SIM-swapping works and how you can keep yourself safe. A “SIM-swap” means that a hacker...
You want to secure your T-Mobile account if you have one by changing your password and added in a passcode (or changing that too if you have one). Log into your T-Mobile account before a hacker can and change the password to something unique.
"... cloud assets deserve a seat at the grown-up security table and a piece of your budget pie." According to Verizon's 2021 DBIR, web applications are such a common target that they deserve as much attention, if not more, than on-prem assets. And the continued high...
Introduction Energy infrastructures are complex systems with physical, topographical, and digital interdependencies with other critical infrastructures, such as transport, media communications, water, horticulture, finance, and networks. These support public...
Source: Ransomware Graphic by Charlie Coombs The State of Ransomware The trend of Ransomware attacks continues to grow, inflicting damages to almost every business around the globe. According to research, a company is attacked by a cybercriminal every 11 seconds, and...
No business can ignore cybersecurity in today's risky online landscape. Your company's website, social media accounts, or servers may have never been hacked, but this doesn't mean that you should rest easy. If you're leading a large enterprise, then you've likely...