Login credentials are your organization’s first line of defense against cybercriminals. Yet, in a surreal twist of fate, instead of providing protection, they have become one of the most powerful weapons in a threat actor’s arsenal. According to the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, stolen credentials are the top attack vector, used in 24%…

IT teams are drowning in endpoints: 45% of organizations manage between 100 to 1,000 endpoints, while 32% manage between 1,001 to 5,000, according to a recent benchmark survey. However, the lifeboats these teams have been clinging to, Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) tools, which enable them to manage hundreds of endpoints seamlessly, troubleshoot issues remotely,…

During World War I, the French Prime Minister, George Clemenceau said that “generals always prepare to fight the last war.” The problem of course is that the last war used the last war’s technology which is why each subsequent war has such devastating casualties. The new attack methodologies always seem to outflank the defenses.  The…

Logs play a vital role in cybersecurity. As we explained in a previous post, How Comprehensive Logging Can Stop the Next Big Cyberattack, logs act as digital breadcrumbs, recording every action and interaction, including who, when, and how a system was accessed and what actions were taken. However, their value extends far beyond being mere…

How do these cyberattacks keep occurring? It’s an honest question that any business has a right to ask. We hear of new advanced security tools being released regularly from some of the world’s top security vendors, and yet cyberattacks continue to capture headlines.   Reasons for Perpetual Cyberattacks  The persistent threat landscape of today stems from…

Imagine logging into your organization’s system one morning only to discover threat actors had exfiltrated all of your current and past customers’ data. Or picture trying to log on and realizing hackers have locked you out of your systems.   Although these two situations are hypothetical, the story is all too familiar. In the last few…