Enhancing Cyber Resilience through Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
by Bogdan Carlescu, from Business Insights , on 22.10.2021
Summary Advanced attacks represent a challenge for organizations that are getting breached due to architectural misfits and resource challenges Enlarging the width and depth of threat detection and response helps improve the cyber resilience of enterprise environments The Forrester New Wave™: Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Providers, Q4 2021 report, helps cybersecurity professionals to navigate the new XDR space Top reasons for cybersecurity breaches Breaches like this one keep repeating like a sad song – with an undiscovered cyber-attack for a staggering… 17 months. Security incidents are not only hurting business’ reputation and bottom lines but also customers in ways not always easy to foresee. We at Bitdefender, are sympathetic to these challenges. With increasing digitalization of business and an underinvestment in cybersecurity across many organizations, these stories are likely to continue. While businesses have to shoulder responsibility for their strategy and execution of it, the cybersecurity industry needs to help as well. We now live in a time when cyber risk requires cyber resilience – the ability of an organization to prevent cyber-attacks from causing incidents or to detect and respond to them in a manner which limits the impact to a pre-defined risk tolerance – is a duty for any organization. read more
Why Third-Party Testing is Critical for Informed Customer Decisions
by Business Insights , on 21.10.2021
With 400+ new threats discovered each minute and 30 billion threat queries validated daily; it is fair to say that 2021 is a banner year for cybercrime. While some cybercriminals engage in high-profile attacks that are planned for months; other are more opportunistic and go after easy targets. read more
Foiling Cybercrime Around the World - An Interview with a Cybercrime Investigator
by Business Insights , on 20.10.2021
The threat of ransomware has grown dramatically in recent years. The recent emergence of ransomware as a service (RaaS) has made it possible for those with little technical know-how to purchase pre-made ransomware kits on the Dark Web, which they can easily push out to countless targets. According to our own global telemetry, ransomware incidents spiked nearly 500% last year and show no signs of slowing, with numerous ransomware attacks to critical infrastructure and supply chains having already occurred in 2021. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reports that the collective costs of ransomware attacks reached $29.1 million in 2020, up more than 200% from the year prior. read more
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Other Cybersecurity Must-haves
by Business Insights , on 18.10.2021
Building up a robust security department and having a strong security posture doesn’t happen overnight. Between ever-evolving threats, new vulnerabilities, increasing attack surfaces, and resource management, a cybersecurity leader has quite the hill to climb to ensure their organization is properly protected. read more
How Quantum Computing Will Impact Cybersecurity
by Business Insights , on 13.10.2021
The field of quantum computing is still in its early stages, but the technology will be impacting many industries much sooner than most people realize. Quantum computers are able to process much larger data sets and perform much more complex computations than even the world’s most powerful supercomputers relying on classical computing. They can solve problems previously considered impossible due to their complexity – and they do it almost instantaneously. When Google developed its first quantum computer in 2019, the machine was able to solve a calculation in just over 3 minutes that would have taken the world’s fastest supercomputer at the time 10,000 years to solve. read more
Pitfalls To Avoid With Your Security Awareness Training (SAT) Program
by Business Insights , on 11.10.2021
If you’re tasked with securing your organization, your employees are usually one of the first priorities. Malicious actors know that employees are often an easy way to break into a company and many of the most common types of attacks target employees. These can include: read more
Top SMB Security Tips for Cybersecurity Awareness Month
by Business Insights , on 08.10.2021
October is CyberSecurity Awareness Month. Many CISOs might argue that every month should be so designated, given the importance of cybersecurity. But in any case the campaign serves as a good reminder that organizations need to enhance employees’ awareness of the multitude of threats and vulnerabilities that can lead to damaging attacks. This is true not only for large, global enterprises, but for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) as well. read more
Advanced Threat Protection in the Modern Age: An Interview with a Threat Hunter
by Business Insights , on 06.10.2021
These days, the line between our online and offline lives has become indistinguishable. Our home lives, professional work, community services, economic prosperity and even national security are all connected to and impacted by the internet. This is why cybersecurity must be everyone’s priority. To help people understand what they can do to better protect themselves or their organizations, we sat down with one of Bitdefender’s own cybersecurity experts, Tyler Baker for a QandA. read more
Why healthcare IoT requires stronger healthcare cybersecurity
by Business Insights , on 04.10.2021
The healthcare industry has gone through a dramatic technological transformation, one that has been accelerated by COVID. read more
