Cyber attacks, misconfiguration, and data leaks are more common than ever before. Our news cycle is full of first and third-party data breaches that expose the protected health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII) of thousands or even hundreds of millions of people. Not only are data breaches more common, but they're also more costly. The average cost of a data breach is now nearly $4 million globally.
Are you finding it increasingly challenging to manage your organization’s regulatory submission process? The entire process of developing a drug from preclinical research to marketing takes approximately 12 to 18 years and can cost billions of dollars before a drug is even approved.
If you want to skip ahead to see the MITRE ATT&CK eval round 2 results visualized in an easy-to-configure Kibana dashboard, check it out here.
Six months ago we celebrated the joining of forces between Endgame and Elastic under the banner of Elastic Security and announced the elimination of per endpoint pricing. Simultaneously, while the newest members of Elastic Security were getting acquainted with the Elastic SIEM team, a few of our analysts were locked away in an office at MITRE HQ for round 2 of MITRE’s APT emulation.
Being able to detect and block a suspicious IP address is one of the most essential skills a cyber security specialist must have. Read our article to learn more about the detection of suspicious IP addresses.
Ransomware is a serious threat to institutions of all kinds, resulting in mounting costs for organizations that must literally pay ransom to regain access to their essential systems. A ransomware attack takes place when a cybercriminal denies an organization access to the data it needs to conduct business, usually by encrypting the data with a secret key. The attacker then offers to reveal the encryption key in exchange for a payment. The payment can vary in amount or kind.
About the time that Bitcoin was becoming a household name in the cryptocurrency business, an associated up-and-coming technology called blockchain was making waves and being hailed as the next big thing. Then it all but disappeared from the pages of the tech journals and websites. In other words, the big splash never materialized. Looking back, the problem was that it was so new and revolutionary that nobody knew what to do with it yet.
Over the past several years, telecommuting, or remote work, has gained significant traction across a wide variety of industries. According to a recent survey conducted by OWL Labs, 48 percent of employees worked from home at least once a week in 2019, and 34 percent were even willing to take a pay cut in order to work remotely.
Like many businesses today, the construction industry is in a state of transition. In recent years, construction workflows have become information-driven, just as workflows have in other industries. Many industries have risen to the challenge and made full use of digital technologies to transform themselves. However, for reasons that have a lot to do with how construction operates, the digital transformation of construction has lagged.
Potential attackers are really good at what they do. Security analysts see this firsthand with the amount of phishing emails their organizations see daily. A newly released State of the Phish report reveals that nearly 90% of organizations dealt with business email compromise (BEC) attacks in 2019. End users reported 9.2 million suspicious phishing emails globally for the year.
