Cyberbit has launched an international competition that will subject participating teams to attacks simulated through a company-built platform to determine the best defensive group of cyber professionals.
Read More »Zscaler Report Finds 260% Rise in Attacks via Encrypted Channels; Deepen Desai Quoted
A new report from Zscaler has found a 260 percent increase in encryption-based threats during the first nine months of 2020. Zscaler’s threat research team analyzed 6.6B encrypted threats delivered through Secure Sockets Layer channels between January and September and found that health care was the most targeted industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by finance and insurance, manufacturing, government and services sectors.
Read More »Red Hat’s David Egts Recommends Risk Mgmt Strategies for State & Local Gov’t Cybersecurity
David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat's North American public sector business, has offered three recommendations for state and local government agencies to strengthen cybersecurity posture amid the increasing risk of ransomware attacks.
Read More »Zscaler’s Drew Schnabel: Zero Attack Surface Could Help DoD Agencies Secure Distributed IT Environment
Drew Schnabel, vice president of federal at Zscaler, wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday on GCN that agencies within the Department of Defense looking to secure their distributed information technology environments and support telework arrangements should consider five attributes and one is having a zero attack surface.
Read More »Forcepoint’s Homayun Yaqub on Five Steps Organizations Can Take to Protect Against Ransomware
Homayun Yaqub, senior security strategist at Forcepoint, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that there are five measures organizations can consider to protect against ransomware attacks and one is creating a ransomware incident playbook
Read More »Accenture Publishes 2020 Cyber Threatspace Report; Josh Ray Quoted
Accenture announced Monday the release of its 2020 Cyber Threatscape Report. Drawing upon the company’s cyber threat intelligence (CTI) capabilities, the report has analyzed the tactics, techniques and procedures of sophisticated cyber adversaries, as well as projected how threats will evolve. we’ve seen a wide range of cyber adversaries changing their tactics to take advantage of new vulnerabilities,” said Josh Ray.
Read More »Microsoft Secures Court Order to Disrupt Botnet ‘Trickbot’
Microsoft has obtained a court order and carried out a technical action to counter Trickbot, a botnet known for distributing ransomware, to protect election infrastructure, government agencies, health care facilities, financial service institutions and businesses from ransomware attacks.
Read More »Fortinet’s Jim Richberg: Agencies Must Take Proactive Steps to Prevent Emerging Ransomware Attack
Jim Richberg, field chief information security officer at Fortinet, has said that organizations need to be proactive in protecting disparate networks against end-to-end ransomware threats based on an “as-a-service” framework.
Read More »DopplePaymer Ransomware Operators Claim Breach of DMI’s Network
A group running the DopplePaymer ransomware announced in a blog post that they hacked the network of Digital Management Inc., one of NASA’s information technology contractors, ZDNet reported Wednesday.
Read More »Pure Storage’s Gary Newgaard: Modern Data Experience Key to Maintaining Telework-Ready Environment
Gary Newgaard, vice president of public sector at Pure Storage, wrote in a GCN guest piece published Tuesday that government agencies should have the right infrastructure and a modern data experience to meet expanded telework requirements.
Read More »Fortinet’s Anthony Giandomenico on Attack Trends Agencies Should Keep in Mind
Anthony Giandomenico, senior security strategist and researcher at Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that cybersecurity teams at federal agencies should be aware of the emerging attack trends as they map out their security strategies.
Read More »Unisys Recognized for Zero-Trust Cybersecurity Software
Forrester Research has recognized Unisys as a strong performer for the latter’s zero-trust Stealth cybersecurity software suite in a recently published industry report.
Read More »IBM Report: Most US Taxpayers Prefer Higher Federal Funding for Local Cybersecurity Efforts
A new study from IBM’s security arm has found that the majority of U.S. citizens want to see increased federal funding to support local government’s efforts to fortify cybersecurity.
Read More »BlackBerry’s Jeff Davis, Scott Scheferman: Smart City Dev’t Requires Increased Ransomware Cybersecurity
Jeff Davis and Scott Scheferman, vice presidents at BlackBerry, wrote in a GCN article published published Friday that as communities develop smart cities, ransomware incidents across the globe are increasing the demand for cybersecurity.
Read More »Fortinet Report: Attack Practices of Cyber Criminals Grow More Sophisticated
A new Fortinet report shows that cyber criminals are increasingly leveraging anti-analysis and evasion techniques to prevent detection.
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