Read about the latest cybersecurity news and get advice on third-party vendor risk management, reporting cybersecurity to the Board, managing cyber risks, benchmarking security performance, and more.
Insights blog.
Read about the latest cybersecurity news and get advice on third-party vendor risk management, reporting cybersecurity to the Board, managing cyber risks, benchmarking security performance, and more.
Bitsight and Google collaborate to reveal global cybersecurity performance
Bitsight and Google collaborate to reveal global cybersecurity performance
This joint study between Bitsight and Google arms organizations with actionable insights, providing the current status of global cybersecurity performance by analyzing nearly 100,000 global organizations across 16 cybersecurity controls and nine industries amid heightened stakeholder demands on cybersecurity strategy.
Supplier due diligence can protect your organization from third-party risk. Here are best practices for doing it effectively.
What is continuous monitoring vs. continuous security testing and why you need both to protect your organization against third-party risk.
Traditional supply chain risk management strategies are becoming increasingly unsound amid the rise of unorthodox threats. These evolving supply chain risks require organizations to not only rethink supply chain risk but to act accordingly. Every organization should form a cyber supply chain risk management strategy for the modern era.
The modern attack surface is expanding, presenting new challenges to the status quo of cyber supply chain risk management. Let’s analyze the evolving landscape, and highlight key shifts important to your organization.
New guidance from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides important information for organizations seeking to improve their software supply chain security. NIST recommends a variety of best practices.
While all areas of risk management involve blind spots, supply chain risk management might be the murkiest. To be effective in this field, risk professionals must account for risks from a wide variety of sources, from bad password management to geopolitical upheaval. Supply chain risks can be difficult to detect, unpredictable, and fast-moving.
Vendors and third party partners are essential to helping your business grow and stay competitive. But outsourcing to third parties also dramatically increases your attack surface. A recent independent study by Opinion Matters found that 92% of U.S. organizations have experienced a breach that originated with a vendor.
Organizations remain concerned about the potential implications to their own security posture as a result of the Okta cyber attack. It's important to identify where risks are present throughout your third parties landscape.
The situation between Russia and Ukraine has been escalating since the start of January, when Russia stationed more than 100,000 troops along the Ukrainian Border. Although cyber security is not the primary concern in the current situation, there is a cyber security component that absolutely should not be overlooked.
We believe a war in the region would have a direct impact on the cyber threat landscape. Both Poland and Lithuania have recently raised their countries' alert level, just hours after Ukraine reported its defense ministry and two banks had been hacked. In the US, CISA has issued a recommendation for all organizations, regardless of size, to adopt a heightened posture when it comes to cybersecurity. Meanwhile, Russia launched a full scale attack on Ukraine territory, which is still developing, and its full reach still remains to be seen.
We believe a war in the region would have a direct impact on the cyber threat landscape. Both Poland and Lithuania have recently raised their countries' alert level, just hours after Ukraine reported its defense ministry and two banks had been hacked. In the US, CISA has issued a recommendation for all organizations, regardless of size, to adopt a heightened posture when it comes to cybersecurity. Meanwhile, Russia launched a full scale attack on Ukraine territory, which is still developing, and its full reach still remains to be seen.
Make your vendor lifecycle more efficient and less fraught with cyber risk with these three tips for supply chain risk management.
A critical vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution has been discovered in Apache Log4j 2, an open source Java logging tool. The Apache Software Foundation has identified the vulnerability as CVE-2021-44228.
“34% of companies [in portfolios] we examined had at least one exposed Java-based server. Not all of those use Log4j, but that gives a rough sense of the scale of exposure,” said Ethan Geil, Senior Director, Data and Research.
“34% of companies [in portfolios] we examined had at least one exposed Java-based server. Not all of those use Log4j, but that gives a rough sense of the scale of exposure,” said Ethan Geil, Senior Director, Data and Research.
Cyber risk management should be a priority for any organization. And while there are many measures your business can take to reduce cybersecurity risk across the enterprise, how do you discover and remediate unknown risks that may be lurking in the networks of third parties?
In light of recent significant attacks targeting the U.S. government, the Biden administration issued an Executive Order (EO) on cybersecurity on May 8, 2021.
Overall, the EO starts to fill in some critical gaps in US government cybersecurity capabilities. The EO is designed primarily to protect Federal infrastructure, but will also have significant impact on private sector service providers (e.g. software providers) who will now be required to meet new security requirements in order to do business with the U.S. government.
Overall, the EO starts to fill in some critical gaps in US government cybersecurity capabilities. The EO is designed primarily to protect Federal infrastructure, but will also have significant impact on private sector service providers (e.g. software providers) who will now be required to meet new security requirements in order to do business with the U.S. government.
The SolarWinds supply chain attack did more than just create cybersecurity problems for businesses and government agencies – it has had a strong impact on the mindset of CISOs. Already under stress, the incident further dispirited many CISOs who continually face escalating cyber threats. The SolarWinds hack was the latest – and biggest – shot across the bow.
The SolarWinds hack, discovered in late 2020 when FireEye announced it had been targeted through a third party vulnerability, has now become one of the most widespread and impactful supply chain attacks in history.