The HIPAA Journal reported that “2020 was the worst ever year for healthcare industry data breaches.” In the US alone, there were 642 reported data...
Operation panopticon: How a weak IAM strategy led to the security camera hack across organizations
On March 9, 2021, Verkada, a software company that specializes in making security cameras for monitoring physical access control, was subject to a security hack....
The road ahead: McKinsey’s top 5 cybersecurity predictions for 2021 and beyond
What is a bigger threat to mankind: nuclear weapons or cybercrime? While most would say nuclear weapons, Warren Buffett says cybercrime would take the cake....
Azure security 101: Security essentials, logs, authentication, and more
“Where necessity speaks, it demands”. This old saying seems particularly apt right now with the pandemic forcing organizations to completely change the way they think...
Windows logon auditing: Everything you need to know in only 10 minutes [Free e-book]
User logon activity needs to be audited to meet various security, operational, and compliance requirements of an IT environment, such as: Detecting suspicious activities like...
Ransomware in 2021: What has changed? Detection and mitigation strategy
A ransomware attack is a bug that we can’t shake off. Or perhaps, it can even be called a shape-shifter that somehow finds a way into...
Security operations center, Part 3: Finding your weakest link
Any organization with data assets is a possible target for an attacker. Hackers use various forms of advanced cyberattack techniques to obtain valuable company data;...
Dangerous defaults that put your IT environment at risk: IT security under attack
In this blog in the “IT security under attack” series, we wanted to shed some light on an unfamiliar and seldom discussed topic in IT security:...
Free Active Directory management tools: Part 5 – Replication, domain controller roles, and monitoring
Replicate information between domain controllers (DCs), identify the roles assigned to the domain controllers in your Active Directory (AD) environment, and monitor your domain controllers...