There is an increasing reliance on managed service providers and online IT management solutions—tools that have significant authority and privileged access inside the networks of other organizations. While these solutions have essential roles in how companies operate and compete, they are being weaponized by cybercriminals to implement devastating and far-reaching cyberattacks. Consider the recent high-profile attacks involving Kaseya, Codecov, Microsoft Exchange Server and S

Zero-day attacks can present a unique challenge to cybersecurity experts. How does an organization protect itself against unknown vulnerabilities within its IT system? As with other types of cyberthreats, presenting the best defense entails having a well-developed cybersecurity infrastructure in place, one that includes sound policies and effective solutions, including hardened encryption and cryptography technology that ensures data remains protected. ZERO-DAY ATTACKS TAKE A

There have always been problems with implicit trust in network security, but these problems are magnified in the current digital landscape in which network perimeters are no longer clearly defined. With implicit trust, monitoring and verification are often not prioritized and internal threats do not receive the same high level of emphasis as external threats. For modern digital environments, the protection of networks and their resources require modern approaches and technolo

Cyberattacks have crossed a threshold. Nation-state entities routinely engage in bold, malicious cyber activities against the United States. China, which has engaged in data harvesting for some years, has been recognized as a major cybersecurity threat to the United States. Hackers backed by the Chinese government exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server to hack 30,000 victims, including local governments and small businesses. The U.S. government has also rece

Despite enormous efforts and sums of money spent on cybersecurity, threat detection, and education, the breaches and hacks just keep coming. The recent high-profile compromise in supply chain illuminates (if only briefly) a problem we’ve known about for a long time… The software tools! Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) are software-based tools that are a necessary and critical aspect of the Managed Service Provider (MSP) infrastructure. To effectively service their cust

Public key infrastructure, or PKI, is widely used because it can both encrypt data and confirm that the party with whom a user, device or application is exchanging encrypted messages is who they say they are. Many organizations are relying on PKI to serve as the mechanism to verify and securely exchange data between servers and users and create a trusted and secure business environment. It is used a matter of routine for a wide range of use cases, from securing emails and dig