In December 2020, one headline dominated cybersecurity news: SolarWinds had been the target of a massive cyberattack. The story began over a year earlier (September 2019) when state-sponsored Russian hackers gained unauthorized access to SolarWinds’ network and inserted malicious code into SolarWinds’ Orion software. In February 2020, SolarWinds released the infected software as an update,…

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It is one of the oldest concerns of conducting business transactions: How can you be sure that the other person is who they say they are. In the past, business validation was more straightforward. Customers could visit physical stores or financial centers, visually confirming the establishment’s legitimacy. Personal interactions, such as eye contact or handshakes,…

Login credentials are your organization’s first line of defense against cybercriminals. Yet, in a surreal twist of fate, instead of providing protection, they have become one of the most powerful weapons in a threat actor’s arsenal. According to the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, stolen credentials are the top attack vector, used in 24%…

IT teams are drowning in endpoints: 45% of organizations manage between 100 to 1,000 endpoints, while 32% manage between 1,001 to 5,000, according to a recent benchmark survey. However, the lifeboats these teams have been clinging to, Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) tools, which enable them to manage hundreds of endpoints seamlessly, troubleshoot issues remotely,…

During World War I, the French Prime Minister, George Clemenceau said that “generals always prepare to fight the last war.” The problem of course is that the last war used the last war’s technology which is why each subsequent war has such devastating casualties. The new attack methodologies always seem to outflank the defenses.  The…