A common challenge security teams face is ensuring their organization can continue to operate despite cyber attacks — in other words, to demonstrate their cyber resilience. Research from the Ponemon Institute acknowledges that the volume and severity of cyber attacks continues to rise, but suggests that organizations can improve their cyber resilience by…

As the recent pandemic has swept the globe, malicious hackers have quickly pivoted to leverage the confusion to their benefit in carrying out cyberattacks. On April 8, 2020, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre…

For many of us, the last few months have drastically increased our reliance on mobile capabilities. Through the increased use of corporate mobile apps, virtual private networks (VPNs), hot spots and more, mobile communications are more ubiquitous than ever. Because of this enhanced, unprecedented and sudden dependence on mobile capabilities,…

X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) has responded to multiple security incidents where multifactor authentication (MFA) was not implemented—but where implementing MFA might have significantly reduced the impact of the incident. Such incidents have even included destructive malware attacks, resulting in millions of dollars in losses and the irreversible destruction of thousands…