Such an intrusion involved threat actors compromising a software-as-a-service user's email account to determine potentially exploitable conversations where they could deliver an email purporting to be a reply to a message about tax and payment details before establishing a new mailbox rule that would forward messages to an archive folder to conceal malicious activity.
The zero-trust security model has been billed as an ultra-safe defense against emerging, unrecognized and well-known threats. Unlike perimeter security, it doesn't assume people inside an organization are automatically safe. Instead, it requires every user and device -- inside and out -- to be authorized before any access is granted. Sounds enticin...
We've been hearing a lot lately about how the talent gap in cybersecurity is much more complex than some folks have been making it out to be. While making six figures after going through a six week boot camp might be overselling the cybersecurity job market a bit, it is definitely a complex space with lots of opportunities. Fortunately, we have fol...
While more than 80% of entities expect intrusions — particularly phishing, data theft, and zero-day malware attacks, to hold steady or increase over the next year — more than half of respondents continue to believe the non-malicious nature of email messages and attachments by default.
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