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Fort Worth is the fifth largest city in the state of Texas and approximately the 12th largest in the United States. The city is home to over 900,000 people and maintains a staff of thousands of individuals. The state manages a substantial amount of data in its servers, including public and private information that could be harmful if taken and shared with people online. That's why we were worried when we noted the city was breached, and over 500,000 files were taken.

In an ideal world, organizations should have round-the-clock protection for their corner of cyberspace, and prompt response to cyber-attacks. For this to happen, you’llneed top talent, equipped with sophisticated tools and knowledge of up-to-date security practices. But this is hardly the case for most organizations, meaning most are left vulnerable and seeking security solutions from third parties offering MDR services.

The weaponization of digital trust involves exploiting an application or tool we use in our daily digital life to perform our business or personal tasks for malicious purposes. It is a technique increasingly used by the threat actors to carry out malicious actions such as the delivery of malware or links to phishing pages.

When you engage in a security incident investigation, you need to quickly sift through vast quantities of data. In that moment, tracking your attacker, containing the attack, and identifying the root cause are the activities that matter most. However, in an attack’s aftermath, the digital recovery process and post-incident paperwork becomes your new nightmare.

‍The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) is a cyber program and security framework used by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to measure firms’ cybersecurity maturity. All DoD contractors working with the federal government must comply with this program by 2025. CMMC compliance demands that DOD contractors pass an external CMMC assessment carried out by an approved CMMC Third Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO) for all but the lowest level of CMMC certification.

A third-party data breach refers to a data breach that has occurred through a third-party company. In a third-party data breach, the vendor or supplier’s system has been compromised and used to steal data that belongs to you. A third party can be defined as an organization with which your organization has entered into a business relationship to provide goods, access, or services for your use.