Just one crack. That’s all a hacker needs to find to cripple your organization.  That may sound a bit dramatic, but all you need to do is look at the headlines to see that it’s happening. It doesn’t matter how much money you’re spending or what name-brand security company you’re using; if you are like most other organizations out there, you’re potential

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a Shields Up Alert warning of the “potential for the Russian government to consider escalating its destabilizing actions in ways that may impact others outside of Ukraine.”

Long before your IT infrastructure evolved into the complex, overly complicated, perimeterless world of today, the most famous polymath of them all, Leonardo Da Vinci, shared these words of wisdom. His philosophy has never rung so true as it does today. 

The increasing frequency, sophistication and cost of cyberattacks continue to handcuff enterprise operations around the world – for businesses in every vertical industry, for government agencies, for education systems, and even for non-profit organizations. 

Yesterday, CISA launched a webpage  and community-sourced repository of information and advisories regarding the Apache Log4j vulnerability that was discovered late last week. 

While you’re home for the holidays this year, you may have some unwelcome guests…on your organization’s infrastructure.

The latest news that the notorious Nobelium hacker group flooded at least 140 resellers and technology providers worldwide with software supply chain attacks is no surprise. It is just the next generation of these rapidly rising waves of attacks that have been progressing in their sophistication for more than a decade now:

Digital transformation reached an inflection point over the past year. To meet the demands of the “New Normal” brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, enterprise organizations had to turbocharge adoption of new processes and product development far ahead of even the most ambitiously planned timelines for digital transformation.

Most organizations don’t have the time or resources to keep up with the security patches for all the products they have within their infrastructure. All it takes is one missed patch on a single product for hackers to exploit that vulnerability and gain carte blanch to your entire infrastructure.