Your organization has fallen prey to an advanced persistent threat (APT) after being targeted by a state-sponsored crime collective. Six million records were lost over 18 months of undetected presence on your network. While your security operations center (SOC) is fully staffed with analysts, your threat hunting capabilities failed to…

Terms like “privacy,” “personally identifiable information (PII)” or “educational technology (EdTech)” often sound abstract and far from the responsibility of the average person, meant primarily for security and IT professionals. But when schools are forced to close after parents and kids receive ominous, personalized messages, as they did recently in…

Recently, leading up to a major U.S. holiday, cybercriminals targeted a number of payment and credit card companies. These companies received notice that if they didn’t each pay a ransom in bitcoin, a cyberattack would be launched against the payment industry on the holiday, which happens to be a major…

As security professionals, we all understand the importance of protecting data and the need for proper encryption. It’s no surprise, then, that more and more traffic crossing our networks is encrypted. This is a good thing from both a security and privacy perspective, but what if the encryption is being…