Category: Security

Security is more important than ever. Cybersecurity has been a problem from the start of IT and it will be till the end. It all started with endpoint and network security, but today, we are also facing with cloudsecurity and managing employees to incorporate good security practices.

All these new technologies that help us innovate also helps cybercriminals and state sponsored hackers to get new tools they can use to get access to our systems, and in a worst case scenario, access to our most valuable data and business secrets. Also, with new legislation in place like GDPR, you need to make sure everything is secure, otherwise you just don’t lose your reputation, but you can also be fined by the government. Protecting IT-environments is more important than ever.

Endpoint Security

Your first line of defense is usually endpoint protection. The devices your employees work with need to be protected against ransomware and other malware which can bring lots and lots of trouble. This nowadays the most basic form of protection and many of the bigger vendors and suites can help you achieve this.

Network security

Network security is a bit more advanced, where you can manage which traffic goes across your network. You can also connect different networks together with e.g. SD-WAN. So, you can run protection software and share data between multiple locations. The trend we see in network protection on the datacenter side is to lock down the traffic by only allowing known, benevolent traffic sources. Regarding office networking, we see new initiatives like ZScaler coming up, where you tunnel all your staff over the network of ZScaler so they can analyse the traffic and block patterns that they marked as malicious. Especially for companies with employees that travel a lot, this is a smart solution.

Cloud security

Many thought that bringing workloads to the cloud would reduce their responsibility of doing security. It is now clear that this is not the case. Most cloud vendors practice the “shared responsibility” approach. This means that big hyperscalers can offer a first line of defense against well known threats and port scanners. For the more sophisticated attacks that are directly pointed at your servers, you need to have your protection in place.

Lapsus$ cybercriminals claim major cyberattack on Samsung

Lapsus$ cybercriminals claim major cyberattack on Samsung

Hacker group Lapsus$ claims to have stolen 190GB of confidential data from Samsung. This mainly involves source code for Samsung devices. Last week, Lapsus$ claimed to have stolen 1TB of confidential data from Nvidia. In an attempt to back the claim, the criminal group published 20GB of the alle... Read more

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Dutch government bans Kaspersky software without evidence of abuse

Dutch government bans Kaspersky software without evidence of abuse

The Dutch government continues to ban Kaspersky's antivirus software despite a lack of evidence for alleged sabotage and espionage. In 2018, Kaspersky was investigated on behalf of the former administration of the Netherlands. The government feared that Kaspersky was complicit in espionage and s... Read more

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‘Number of API attacks rose by nearly 700 percent’

‘Number of API attacks rose by nearly 700 percent’

Over the past twelve months, the number of API attacks increased by 681 percent. "It's no surprise that attackers continue to be successful", states Michael Isbitski, Technical Evangelist at Salt Security. "Traditional security measures are unable to protect against sophisticated attacks." Salt ... Read more

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CrowdStrike launches Falcon Identity Threat Protection Complete

CrowdStrike launches Falcon Identity Threat Protection Complete

CrowdStrike introduces Falcon Identity Threat Protection Complete. The managed security service protects organizations against attackers using stolen login credentials, also known as identity-based attacks. Falcon Identity Threat Protection Complete is an extension of Falcon Identity Threat Prot... Read more

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Nvidia confirms: malware group Lapsus$ has personal company data

Nvidia confirms: malware group Lapsus$ has personal company data

Nvidia acknowledges that trade secrets and personal data have been stolen by ransomware group Lapsus$. According to Nvidia, ransomware is not involved. The organization refuses to cooperate with the cybercriminals' demands. Ransomware group Lapsus$ claims to possess over 1TB of private Nvidia da... Read more

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‘Cyberattacks are developed more quickly, damage is rising’

‘Cyberattacks are developed more quickly, damage is rising’

The development cycle and damage of cyberattacks is ramping up. This is concluded by Fortinet in a security analysis of the second half of 2021. The research shows that hackers are developing attacks at an increasing pace. The damage of attacks is growing along. An important example of the in... Read more

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