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The CIS Controls and Tripwire Solutions
Many organizations face the challenging threat environment by strategically choosing a security controls framework as a reference for initiating, implementing, measuring, and evaluating their security posture, as well as managing risk. While many frameworks are available, one of the most notable and commonly used is the Center for Internet Security’s CIS Controls.
This well known framework has...
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Tripwire Enterprise and Cisco AMP Threat Grid
Overview
There is mounting concern at the senior executive and board level regarding cybersecurity, driven by highly visible advanced targeted attacks. These attacks threaten precious IP, valuable customer information, company valuation and trade secrets. To truly protect valuable resources, organizations have to accept the nature of modern networked environments and devices, and start defending...
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CIS Control 14: Security Awareness and Skill Training
By Matthew Jerzewski on Wed, 11/06/2024
Users who do not have the appropriate security awareness training are considered a weak link in the security of an enterprise. These untrained users are easier to exploit than finding a flaw or vulnerability in the equipment that an enterprise uses to secure its network. Attackers could convince unsuspecting users to unintentionally provide access to the enterprise network or expose sensitive...
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What Is a Security Operations Center (SOC)?
By Kirsten Doyle on Tue, 02/04/2025
Data breaches continue to cost organizations millions of dollars each year, with costs rising steadily. According to IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average cost of a data breach has surged to $4.88 million globally, reflecting the increasing complexity and sophistication of cyberattacks. In the United States, this figure is even higher, averaging $9.8 million per breach, and the...
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CIS Control 09: Email and Web Browser Protections
By Matthew Jerzewski on Wed, 12/11/2024
Web browsers and email clients are used to interact with external and internal assets. Both applications can be used as a point of entry within an organization. Users of these applications can be manipulated using social engineering attacks. A successful social engineering attack needs to convince users to interact with malicious content. A successful attack could give an attacker an entry point...
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Common Phishing Attacks and How to Protect Against Them
By Kirsten Doyle on Wed, 09/11/2024
Phishing is a malicious attempt to deceive individuals into divulging sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, or other personal data. These attacks are typically carried out by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in electronic communications. Phishing can take many forms and has evolved to become more sophisticated, making it imperative for individuals and...
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What Is the Role of Incident Response in ICS Security?
By Guest Authors on Wed, 04/06/2022
In recent years, cyber espionage has been growing in magnitude and complexity. One of the most common targets is Industrial Control Systems (ICS) within critical infrastructure sectors. With many organizations relying more heavily on ICS networks, there has been an increase in threats and cyberattacks aimed at these systems. Not only do these...
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Shifting Left with SAST, DAST, and SCA: Advanced Best Practices
By Guest Authors on Thu, 10/20/2022
In the past, teams incorporated security testing far after the development stage of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Security testing would influence whether the application would to proceed to production, or get passed back to the developers for remediation.This process caused delays while teams worked on remediation or, worse yet, it...
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New Canadian Cyberattack Data Says 80% of SMBs Are Vulnerable
By Guest Authors on Tue, 10/25/2022
If you were to take a look at the cybersecurity news cycle, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s only large enterprises with expansive customer bases and budgets that are the most vulnerable to attacks. But that’s not entirely true. Even if it’s at a much smaller scale, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) still have stores of sensitive...
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Intrusion detection and the “kill chain”
By Guest Authors on Tue, 07/31/2012
Last week, I sat in on a briefing by a guy who calls himself “Four” who happens to be involved in intrusion detection for Facebook. He shared some interesting perspective at the Black Hat conference through a discussion of ”Intrusion Detection Along the Kill Chain.” The information Four presented is based on the work done by Eric M. Hutchins, Michael J. Cloppert, Rohan M. Amin, Ph.D of Lockheed...
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Massive Surge in Security Breaches of Pensions Prompt Questions
By Josh Breaker-Rolfe on Thu, 11/02/2023
A recent report from RPC has revealed that cybersecurity breaches in UK pension schemes increased by 4,000% from 2021/22 to 2022/23. Understandably, the announcement has raised serious concerns about the efficacy of financial service organization’s cybersecurity programmes. Although the reasons for cyberattacks on financial services are fairly...
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2023 Business Email Compromise Statistics
By Josh Breaker-Rolfe on Tue, 08/15/2023
In cybersecurity, knowledge is everything. From APT intelligence to zero-day vulnerabilities, relevant and timely information can be the difference between a thwarted attack and a total disaster. With Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks at their zenith, there has never been a better time for a comprehensive BEC report. As such, Fortra has...
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Guarding Against Fileless Malware: Types and Prevention
By Dilki Rathnayake on Thu, 09/14/2023
Fileless malware, true to its name, is malicious code that uses existing legitimate programs in a system for compromise. It operates directly in the Random Access Memory (RAM) without requiring any executable files in the hard drive. Differing from conventional malware, fileless attacks are stealthier in nature, falling under the category of low...
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Insider Risk Hits Closer to Home
By Stefanie Shank on Wed, 06/21/2023
If you’re busy securing the perimeter, mandating strong authentication practices, and restricting software downloads, you may be missing the mark.
(Just to be clear: if you are doing those things, keep it up. You’re off to a good start, and none of what follows here replaces classic and vital cybersecurity measures.)
Protecting your organization...
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Is Your MSP Taking Its Own Security Seriously?
By Guest Authors on Wed, 08/02/2023
Most small and midsized businesses trust an IT services partner to help them secure their networks.
A few years ago, high-profile cyberattacks targeting MSP vendors Kaseya and SolarWinds thrust the security risk of relying on a complex chain of vendors into the technology media and moved the Department of Homeland Security to issue a statement...
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Fighting AI Cybercrime with AI Security
By Guest Authors on Mon, 10/02/2023
On August 10th, the Pentagon introduced "Task Force Lima," a dedicated team working to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the core of the U.S. defense system. The goal is to use AI to improve business operations, healthcare, military readiness, policy-making, and warfare.
Earlier in August, the White House announced a large cash prize for...
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Understanding Cybersecurity Footprinting: Techniques and Strategies
By Dilki Rathnayake on Mon, 10/16/2023
Footprinting, also known as fingerprinting, is a methodology used by penetration testers, cybersecurity professionals, and even threat actors to gather information about a target organization to identify potential vulnerabilities. Footprinting is the first step in penetration testing. It involves scanning open ports, mapping network topologies, and...
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Information Security Risk Management (ISRM) Boosts Compliance by Undermining Configuration Drift
By Katrina Thompson on Mon, 04/07/2025
Compliance is a “ticket to entry” for businesses today, and information security risk management (ISRM) makes sure organizations hang on to their ticket. In this blog, we’ll review how ISRM helps organizations not only get compliant but stay compliant.And how Tripwire makes that process automatic.Compliance is a Core Cost of Doing Business TodayWithout adhering to industry-standard data privacy...
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Report Reveals BEC Cryptocurrency Scams Rose by 344%
By Katrina Thompson on Tue, 05/13/2025
APWG's Q4 2024 Phishing Activity Trends Report, published March 19th, revealed that more than eight in ten Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks last quarter were sent by attackers favoring Google's free webmail service. By comparison, only 10% used Microsoft's free email web app, Outlook.com.The report, published quarterly, is a product of the phishing incidents reported to the APWG annually by...