Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

In recent years, many business and IT decision-makers have missed key opportunities when it comes to essential organizational cybersecurity practices - from not properly segmenting networks and not deactivating unused accounts (or protecting them with multi-factor authentication), to not implementing proper password security controls. As a result, organizations are increasingly falling victim to costly and damaging data breaches, replete with the associated disruption to operations and issues with both legal and public relations departments.

As a CIO, you know that your business faces cyber threats daily. While you may have robust security measures in place, it's impossible to protect your organization from every possible attack. That's where cyber threat intelligence comes in. By incorporating this valuable resource into your security strategy, you can dramatically reduce your risk of a breach.

In cloud-native organizations and software as a service (SaaS) businesses, cloud security automation is becoming a must-have feature. You can't stay ahead of threats across several levels of your cloud environment using manual procedures alone, and you can't rely exclusively on cloud providers' security technology, which doesn't operate across different clouds and lacks advanced automation features. Managing these infrastructures and apps in multi-cloud settings becomes increasingly difficult and compounds the operational issues that you face today. Automation is the way to go if you want to stay ahead of the game and meet the expectations of your customers.

Rajesh Ganesan, president of ManageEngine, highlights the top three security risks employers should be aware of as more staff seek a hybrid holiday this summer.

Contributing to a legacy software development project, as a security-aware developer, is a bit like inheriting an old house. In my old house, the roof is missing tiles, the bathroom taps are dripping, the front door doesn't lock properly, the hallway needs redecorating and there are worrying cracks in the foundations. I don't know where to start. The security problems with the application I've recently (hypothetically) joined are similarly vexing and diverse. It has deprecated dependencies to older versions of software libraries. It could be misconfigured using insecure protocols.

No one can completely avoid risk when it comes to their network security, but there are steps that you can take to minimize your organization's vulnerability. In this blog post, we will discuss 10 ways to reduce your network security risk.