Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

It may be the shortest month, but February brought no shortage of bad behavior by cybercriminals. In our latest cyber attack roundup of the ever-thriving world of cybercrime, we look at a disturbing theft from one of the United States’ most secretive government organizations, a long-running ransomware tie-up for a major media company, a never-ending nightmare for a security-minded internet company, and the latest of many breaches for one of the backbones of the modern web.

February’s product update includes many exciting announcements from Vanta. We announced Custom Frameworks and Controls and other improvements to the Vanta experience: ‍ ‍

The Technology Modernization Fund’s (TMF) latest awards targeting cybersecurity, zero trust, and classified cloud highlight the increasing importance of modernizing the federal government’s IT infrastructure to combat emerging cybersecurity threats.

Dish Network is one of the largest American television providers in the country today, offering television service through a direct-broadcast satellite network. The company serves more than 7.4 million customers and maintains over 16,000 employees to keep everything running properly. This huge broadcast network recently suffered from a ransomware attack that interrupted its broadcast service and may have exposed its customers as well.

In this blog we will guide you step by step through using CloudCasa to backup and restore NoSQL databases such as MongoDB operating in your Kubernetes environment. Before we begin, let’s have some basic understanding of the database under test. NoSQL databases provide a variety of benefits including flexible data models, horizontal scaling, lightning-fast queries, and ease of use for developers.

$11.5 trillion. That’s the amount predicted global cybercrime will cost in 2023. As cyber attacks continue to evolve, becoming more damaging and more devious, organizations are desperate for comprehensive, proactive solutions. For many, that means a security operations center (SOC).

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. A somewhat shocking move by Google don’t you think? However I don’t think this is shocking at all…

API security is the process of effectively securing APIs owned by the organization and external APIs used by implementing API-specific security strategies. It secures API vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and prevents their exploitation by attackers. It mitigates a wide range of API security threats and helps effectively manage risks associated with APIs.

Every federal administration for the past 20 years has issued a cybersecurity strategy, so in one sense the National Cybersecurity Strategy issued by the Biden administration on March 2, 2023 is not unexpected. The big difference, however, lies in the recommendations: For the first time, the government is pressing for regulatory mandates on key industry sectors that control wide swathes of critical infrastructure nationwide.