2019 was a tough year for the overall cybersecurity of state and local governments and municipal institutions. If you follow security news, there were times when not a week would go by without word of how the latest municipal cyberattacks impeded or even halted day-to-day operations. This stream of recent…
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While most large enterprises are moving to the cloud in some form, the path is never as direct as chief information officers (CIOs) and chief information security officers (CISOs) might like it to be. Most come to terms with the fact that the cloud won’t be a single offering, but…
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Everything you do in threat intelligence is about indicators or patterns. In a binary world, patterns are actually just how different indicators work together in the chain of a malicious event. Working with threat intelligence for years now, I’ve often asked myself several fundamental cyberthreat intelligence questions: What exactly is…
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The recently published IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2020 pointed out that over 8.5 billion records were compromised in 2019, a figure that’s more than 200 percent greater than the number of records lost in 2018. It also determined that scanning and exploitation of vulnerabilities have increased from just 8…
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