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Network security monitoring tools are a critical component of any IT security toolkit. These resources monitor and manage your network for cyber risk by scanning your organization’s digital assets for security vulnerabilities and...
BitSight is committed to creating trustworthy, data-driven, and actionable measurements of organizational cybersecurity performance. As part of this commitment, BitSight periodically makes improvements to our ratings algorithm. These...
To serve your customers and realize efficiencies, your organization may work with dozens if not hundreds of third parties including partners, vendors, cloud service providers, and subcontractors.
Hospitals are under cyber attack. Are they able to defend themselves? A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) provides brand new perspectives on the state of hospital cybersecurity...
Hospitals, doctors’ networks, insurance companies, and other healthcare organizations are guardians of valuable protected health information (PHI). As such they are particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks – and these threats are...
The financial services sector is one of the highest performing in terms of cybersecurity. One factor that contributes to this performance is regulation. Laws such asFFIEC IT, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, NYDFS, GDPR, and SOC2 have...
Facebook and the apps under its umbrella, including Instagram and WhatsApp, were inaccessible for hours on Monday. The outage hamstrung the communications of billions of people, businesses, and other organizations.
Network security threats are constantly evolving, and right now we’re in the middle of a particularly challenging time. While big-name breaches like SolarWinds and others grab headlines, multitudes of smaller incidents continue to occur...
These days, we often hear the word “quarantine” in everyday conversations--but quarantining takes on a different meaning when it comes to protecting your network.
Often, when we discuss quarantining from a cyber security perspective...
