As the cyber-crime ecosystem evolves, cyberattacks are becoming more complex, creative, and tailored to the industries and organizations they target. To do this, attackers must research, prepare and seek out information on their targets prior to an attack. While each attack may differ, the general types of information an attacker is required to have to succeed remain similar.

As digital journeys become the cornerstone of IT ecosystems, agile has become a preferred SDLC model, inviting an abundance of open source, third party solutions to the market, and making these journeys faster and smoother.

Cybersecurity Best Practices – Preparedness for a secure remote workforce, compliance, and building a cyber-resilient environment

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, organizations have deviated from their standard operations to maintain some sense of business as usual – working from home, for example, rather than on site.

In the movie ‘After Earth’, Will Smith asks his son Kitai to “take a knee” whenever he is out of ideas during a crisis.

To effectively manage business continuity, enterprises are rapidly working to support a remote workforce, which has become a "New Normal" way of working remotely.

Cyberattacks have moved on from traditional techniques and have become more targeted and sector-specific. Attackers are operating in stealth mode, making attribution of attacks more difficult.

In 2018, there were 52 significant, publicly reported breaches in the manufacturing sector, in which attackers targeted information pertaining to intellectual property.

2018 saw 485 significant, publicly reported breaches in the healthcare and life sciences sector. Attackers were after personally identifiable information (PII) and medical records, along with valuable pharmaceutical intellectual property.

In 2018, the retail and consumer goods industry faced 198 significant, publicly reported breaches. The most sought-after data in these breaches was customer card data and personally identifiable information (PII).

Reports suggest that, over the last two years, more than 33 billion documents faced security breaches due to misconfigurations of cloud-native services, costing businesses worldwide nearly $5 trillion.

Why traditional risk management practices fall short

Disruptive situations force businesses to change the way they function.

Cybersecurity Best Practices – Preparedness for a secure remote workforce, compliance, and building a cyber-resilient environment

The retail sector is currently witnessing an intense technological disruption.

With increasing technology digitization, innovation and agility have become essential ingredients for competitive advantage; regardless of industry. Technology has become the pulse of every single interaction

Today’s Cyber defenses are focused on defending unchanging (sprawling, distributed, & untrusted) infrastructure by monitoring, detecting, preventing and remediating threats.

The healthcare industry is shifting focus to personalized preventive care and an increasing number of patients are expecting healthcare to be delivered as a service.

With increasing willingness to use wearable and share personal information over the web, patients want healthcare to be delivered as a service.

Traditionally, most manufacturing industries, whether process manufacturing or discrete manufacturing

The State of Cybersecurity Report 2019 (SOCR) maintains a unique structure, building on the first two editions’ ethos to bring out new viewpoints and findings.

The ERP landscape is changing fast. Currently, most organizations use hybrid models of on premise and cloud (SaaS, private, etc.).

Do you know what end-point protection tools are running on your desktop or laptop? If not, you can hover your mouse over at the quick access task bar and see icon descriptions.

How to fight cyber threats?

DevSecOps is getting increasing popular as organizations look to tackle ever-evolving challenges in security.

Businesses need to realize the urgent need for looking at security through the IoT lens, which will guide them towards integration with their existing IT security systems.

Today global businesses depend on data for making complex decisions and for meaningful business intelligence

Security monitoring has always been critical to protecting IT ecosystems but with the rise in IoT-enabled devices and connected systems, the fear of cyberattacks has grown exponentially.

AI Technology can bridge the gaps in Security Technology, Help build next generation security teams and Introduce security culture into the Enterprise

In the highly regarded military treatise "The Art of War" written in 5th century BC, Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu proclaimed - "All war is based on deception".

APIs have established themselves as an essential part of enterprise architecture. Security plays an important role in API management.

The changes behind the screen is not visible to the customer, however the customer still gets the requested information. They automate tasks that are simple, flow based and repeatable.

In the iconic 1999 movie Matrix, Morpheus reveals the truth to Neo that our lives are not what it seems but completely made believe. Our sense of leading a normal life is what is fed to us through the computers that are connected to the end of our nerves.

The recent increase in the frequency and impact of cyber-attacks have kept Critical Infrastructure companies on their toes.

Whenever you read the words ‘Hollywood’ and ‘Security’ in the same sentence, your mind probably wanders of in the direction of movies likeDie Hard 4.0 or Swordfish where uber-cool and suave hackers like Hugh Jackman trying to hack $9.5 Billion off the government from a computer with seven screens.

The recent increase in the frequency and impact of cyber-attacks have kept Critical Infrastructure companies on their toes, fearing the worst for their organizations if an attack occurs on their critical infrastructure.

While cloud based solution has security and privacy challenges, data analytics also brings aspects of data privacy.

According to a worldwide survey, by 2020, most organization will run their information technology business on the Cloud, which will expose them to various Cloud threats and risks.

Risk based approach to data privacy can help businesses manage global risks, apply, calibrate and enforce controls based on the risk exposure.

Growing number of devices connected to the internet of things, leads organizations to examine new ways to protect their assets.

GDPR - Enterprises leverage privacy as a brand differentiator to gain competitive edge and add value to customers.

Automation in cybersecurity helps skill retention disapproving the notion that humans will be replaced by Robots

Read the State of Cybersecurity Report 2018 to gain insights into the macro, micro and meso environments of global cybersecurity ecosystem.