What is Managed Detection and Response (MDR)?

As the threat landscape, cybersecurity has become a vital business priority for enterprises everywhere. Organizations understand that they are vulnerable to cyberattacks and data breaches. This understanding drives their cybersecurity decisions and investments.

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What is Shadow IT? – The Risks and Benefits of Shadow IT

What is Shadow IT?

Shadow IT refers to any information technology used within an organization without the knowledge or formal approval of its IT or information security department. Shadow IT includes hardware and endpoint devices, software and applications, and cloud services. Typical shadow IT found in organizations include:

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What is Data Loss Prevention? (DLP) Definition & Best Practices

2021 was a bumper year for data breaches, with a whopping 22 billion records exposed in 4,145 publicly-disclosed breaches. Hackers and data thieves have continued to make merry in 2022, successfully breaching a staggering 108.9 million accounts in just the third quarter. The average cost of a breach has also gone up from $4.24 million in 2021 to $4.35 million in 2022.

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What is Spear Phishing?

In the post-COVID era, hybrid work has become commonplace along with the use of personal mobile devices for work. These two trends have created numerous security blind spots in enterprise IT environments. Cybercriminals take advantage of these blind spots to attack organizations in many ways. In recent years, many cybercriminals are leveraging one particular method to attack organizations and give their leaders sleepless nights. This method is phishing.

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What is Attack Surface Management?

What is Attack Surface Management?

Attack Surface Management (ASM) is the continuous discovery, classification, and monitoring of all an organization’s IT assets to detect, understand, prioritize, and remediate security risks. The goal of ASM is to discover and remediate security risks before they are exploited by malicious actors to launch cyber-attacks. Attack Surface Management is achieved using dedicated ASM solutions or security tools that have ASM capabilities.

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What is Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)?

In the present-day cyberthreat landscape, threat actors can come from anywhere, and attack an organization at any time. One effective way to keep these adversaries is to monitor the enterprise network and analyze its traffic. Such monitoring and analysis enables cybersecurity teams to spot anomalous or suspicious activities and act early to protect the network and organization. Here’s where network traffic analysis (NTA) comes in.

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