Ransomware attacks are among the largest incidents added to the federal tally of major health data breaches in recent weeks. Attacks on a variety of clinics affected a total of more than 1 million individuals.
Organizations must take a number of critical steps to prepare a response to ransomware attacks before they hit, says Caleb Barlow, the new president and CEO of security consulting firm CynergisTek, who offers a guide.
The cybersecurity industry is sizzling. Venture Capital (VC) investment continues to be deployed at an unprecedented pace - yet, the number of security breaches has grown exponentially and the amount of exposed data has resulted in a crisis of global scale.
This whitepaper compares the level of VC investment with the...
In today's security environment, organizations have to realize that attackers are likely inside a company's environment already - no matter how well they're protected. As a result, security programs are now more proactive with analysts actively searching for the hackers that defeated their defenses.
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The ransomware blitz against the healthcare sector continues: A Utah clinic has reported an attack that potentially affected 320,000 patients, making it one of the largest breaches of its kind so far this year.
Even the most sophisticated cyber security strategy is not foolproof. You need to be ready for a cyber attack with a proactive, coordinated incident response plan. Use this resource to launch your own incident response strategy. With your incident response plan documented and tested, you can respond swiftly and...
Password isn't a four-letter word, but for security leaders it is just as cringe-worthy. Single-factor authentication is putting organizations both large and small at risk of data breaches daily - and two-factor authentication can be just as risky, especially if access codes are delivered via text message. The best...
When we look at many of the biggest healthcare data breaches reported so far this summer, two big culprits pop out: ransomware attacks and vendor mishaps. What other trends will emerge?
The experiences of two healthcare organizations that are still recovering from recent ransomware attacks after they refused to pay a ransom illustrate the challenges these incidents pose long after the initial attack.
Internal threat activities (privilege escalation, lateral movement, etc.) are difficult if not impossible to detect using endpoint and perimeter protection alone. ExtraHop Reveal(x) provides network traffic analysis that helps security analysts efficiently detect and investigate these late-stage threats, as well as...
Choice Hotels says about 700,000 guest records were exposed after one of its vendors copied data from its systems. Fraudsters discovered the unsecured database and tried to hold the hotel chain to ransom, which it ignored.
With limited in-house resources, a growing cybersecurity skills gap, and the rapidly growing number and sophistication of threats, more IT teams are turning to Managed Detection and Response solutions to combat cyberthreats.
The Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Buyer's Guide helps IT leaders cut through the...
The Gartner 2019 Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response provides a comprehensive overview of the evolving MDR landscape. According to Gartner, "By 2024, 25% of organizations will be using MDR services, up from less than 5% today. By 2024, 40% of midsize enterprises will use MDR as their only managed security...
Increasingly, cyberattackers are molding
technology and human intelligence
into blended threats that prey upon
vulnerable defenses. Chester Wisniewski
of Sophos lays out how organizations can
become more mature in preparedness
and response.
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Attack trends he's...
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