Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The months leading up to audits can be some of the most stressful for security and privacy teams. Some audits can take up to 9 months to prepare for and another 3 months to complete, with security and privacy teams spearheading the evidence collection. Collecting evidence used to be a walk in the park, but that was before multi-cloud environments, new standards, and emerging regional privacy requirements.

The 2024 CrowdStrike Incident blue-screened Microsoft computers worldwide, causing significant disruptions to high-profile industries such as transportation, healthcare, and financial services. Now that the world has largely recovered, the most forward-minded chief information security officers (CISOs) are focusing on using the incident as an opportunity for continuous improvement. How can they prevent similar incidents from having such a disastrous impact on their organization in the future?

The 2024 CrowdStrike incident caused blue screens of death (BSOD) on Microsoft Windows devices worldwide, severely disrupting operations across essential industry sectors.

You may not know it, but much of your daily life depends on Industrial Control Systems(ICSs). From the power you're using right now to the water you drink, it all depends on Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and other ICS tech to be delivered. In fact, nearly any time something in the physical world needs to be automated, there will be an ICS involved.

‍Over the past few decades, money has steadily transformed from a material entity to a digital one. Worldwide, people rely on the cyber realm to pay their bills, shop for food, and perform many other everyday activities. Corporations, too, particularly following the 2020 pandemic, are largely dependent on cloud-based operations, utilizing various management platforms and storing massive amounts of data online.

As global network infrastructure expands to include devices without traditional compute power, every organization’s attack surface becomes increasingly complex. Parallel to the increased complexity in the threat landscape is the increased scale and complexity of the signals and data necessary to produce meaningful cybersecurity insights. At its core, cybersecurity is a big data problem, requiring centralization of disparate data sources in uniform structure to enable continuous analytics.

Organizations increasingly rely on third parties for business operations, and as a result are working with more digital suppliers than ever. According to Gartner, 60% of organizations work with more than 1,000 third parties and this number will grow. High-profile vulnerabilities such as Log4Shell are a constant reminder of the risks posed by a breakdown in the software supply chain. This has spurred enterprises to increase the rigor of software risk assessments to ensure supply chain security.

Safeguarding critical infrastructure is crucial for national security and economic stability in the digital age. The National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) plays a key role in protecting India's vital assets and critical infrastructure. Tasked with the monumental duty of protecting the nation's most vital assets—such as power grids and financial systems—the NCIIPC stands as a stronghold against the constantly evolving landscape of cyber threats.

Is cyber risk insurable? That question is often at the heart of the debate about the future of the cyber insurance industry. One of the primary drivers of that question is the insurance industry’s challenges when managing systemic cyber risk since many believe that systemic cyber risk has the potential to bankrupt the industry. While there hasn’t been a catastrophic cyber incident that has proven the skeptics right, there have been several close calls.

Modern organisations today are increasingly adopting cloud operations to enhance their agility, scalability, and efficiency. By moving to cloud-based platforms, businesses can leverage powerful computing resources without the need to invest heavily in physical infrastructure. This shift not only reduces capital expenditure but also allows organisations to quickly scale operations in response to demand fluctuations.