What’s More Dangerous Than Ransomware? Jackware.

In Sunday’s full-page editorial, The New York Times dissects the state of cyber crime today — citing the rise in ransomware and referencing the recent Colonial Pipeline attack that triggered a fuel shortage (and widespread panic) across the southeastern U.S. The ability of cyber criminals to “seriously disrupt economies” and “breach strategically critical enterprises or […]

With Blue Ridge Networks releasing an upgraded version of LinkGuard, eliminating cyber threats is all set to become easier for enterprises. LinkGuard, an advanced cybersecurity solution from security enabler Blue Ridge, works seamlessly in a variety of environments to protect and prevent networks and assets by reducing exposure to cyberattacks and lending an unmatched level […]

Providing remote access to anyone—vendors, contractors or the most valued customers—can be very risky business, yet it’s often promoted as a way to help shorten unplanned downtime with remote troubleshooting. One means of risk reduction is two-factor authentication technology, which is designed to enable secure connectivity and future-proof breach prevention across an organization.

Cyber-attacks on industrial control systems (ICSs) are no longer a hypothetical. As pieced together by the Wall Street Journal, in 2017, Russian hackers attacked a small construction company, exploiting the organization’s connections with utilities and government agencies. Through an integrator, the hackers accessed computer-network credentials, giving them the ability to get into computer systems that monitor […]

Cyber-attacks are a relentless threat facing your business. According to McAfee Lab’s Threat Report, nearly 500 new cyber threats emerged every minute in Q4 of last year. Considering the increasingly risky cyber environment, is it ever possible to truly know which devices, applications and users you can trust?

What do the city of Atlanta, the Port of Barcelona, Spain and the Port of San Diego have in common? They all have been victims of ransomware attacks this year.

Do you remember the days when OT (operational technology) and IT (information technology) departments operated independently? Both groups would go about their individual business operations, without any interaction or crossover.

When you hold the keys to the money, you become a prime target for cyberthieves. Malicious acts of cybercrime continue to plague financial institutions, with the Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report revealing that ransomware was found in 39 percent of cases where malware was identified.

We continue to see state, local and municipal agencies fall victim to malicious acts of cyber crime that bring operations to a grinding halt. In March 2018, Atlanta fell victim to a ransomware attack that caused unexpected outages on computers used for day-to-day operations and customer-facing applications, forcing employees to resort to old-school, manual processes.

The new paradigm emerging for cybersecurity is to never trust anyone at any time, at least for some federal agencies. “We’re in the process of implementing zero trust or near-zero trust,” said Andrew Orndorff, CISO and associate CIO for cybersecurity, Department of Transportation, during a panel at MeriTalk’s Zero Trust Cyber conference in June. “In the […]