Cyber criminals focus on the easiest targets, which often are federal agencies. A recent White House Executive Order on cybersecurity puts renewed focus squarely on securing federal network infrastructure. The order promotes, among other things, modernizing federal cybersecurity, improving detection of vulnerabilities and incidents, and moving toward a Zero Trust security model.
Cyber criminals focus on the easiest targets, which often are federal agencies. A recent White House Executive Order on cybersecurity puts renewed focus squarely on securing federal network infrastructure, which means federal agencies must step up their security games, complying with both existing and emerging regulations related to information security.
Cyber attackers are often portrayed as evil masterminds, but the truth is, most attackers are looking for the simplest wins. So what’s the best way to reduce your risk against threat actors? In addition to having reactive solutions and processes in place, organizations should also take a proactive approach, placing as many obstacles in an attacker’s way to make it too labor intensive to bother pursuing.
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The phrase “you’ve got to walk before you can run” is something that we’ve all heard and rolled our eyes at least once in our lives after we’ve attempted an advanced skill before mastering the basics. The saying is unfortunately very accurate when it comes to cybersecurity.
Advancing your vulnerability management programme may be a journey, but it is a journey well worth taking and cannot be done overnight. As your programme matures the better your organisation can avoid costly attacks and breaches that may harm your business and reputation.
Once upon a time, it was often necessary to define the term “ransomware” as it was frequently met with questioning looks and the need for clarification. Nowadays, you can hardly go a day without hearing about some sort of attack. What has made ransomware such a pervasive threat, and how can organizations learn to better protect themselves?
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The F5 BIG-IP iControl REST vulnerability, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that leads to unauthenticated remote code execution, is quite simple to exploit and provides an attacker with a method to execute arbitrary system commands as root.