Tag: Infrastructure

March 2, 2021

Shipping and logistics is, in many ways, the backbone of our lives and businesses. What business doesn’t benefit from fresh food or a timely delivery? Unfortunately, this industry is open to cyberattacks just like anyone else. Luckily, groups in the […]

August 5, 2020

As your organization embraces the cloud, you may find that the dynamism and scale of the cloud-native stack requires a far more complicated security and compliance landscape. For instance, with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes gaining traction, developers and devops […]

November 7, 2019

Cyberattacks are on the rise and threatening our digital life and our most intimate information — but also our operational realities. Attacks on critical infrastructure such as power plants, water works, airports and the like (transportation ranks among the highest-value […]

October 11, 2019

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in charge of leading national cybersecurity and infrastructure resilience programs, wants a change to federal law that would allow it to inspect systems behind ISPs and notify them to fix problems. The […]

August 27, 2019

Researchers have identified a never-before-seen threat group targeting Middle East critical infrastructure organizations with novel malware, sent via spearphishing emails. The threat group, LYCEUM, was observed in 2019 sending spear phishing emails harboring malicious Microsoft Excel attachments to oil and […]

June 5, 2019

Netflix is a champion of using chaos engineering to improve the resilience of its cloud infrastructure. That’s how it ensures its customers don’t have their Stranger Things binge-watching sessions interrupted. Netflix is one of a growing number of companies including […]

March 29, 2019

Who doesn’t love new technology, especially when it promises to make tasks easier and improve productivity? That eagerness to add new technology — something IT staff often encourages security leadership to do — has led to the digital transformation, the […]

February 22, 2019

Cisco released security patches that address more than a dozen issues in its products, including high severity vulnerabilities affecting HyperFlex, Prime Infrastructure, and Prime Collaboration Assurance. Security updates fix two High-risk security flaws in HyperFlex software. The first one is […]

January 22, 2019

Organizations must strengthen their security posture in cloud environments. That means considering five critical elements about their infrastructure, especially when it operates as an IaaS. Shadow IT, the use of technology outside the IT purview, is becoming a tacitly approved […]

November 30, 2018

Infrastructure and network security The two fundamental building blocks to ensuring that your data is secure are physical infrastructure and network security. Understanding and protecting your information from threats and human error require meticulously layered security protocols. Physical infrastructure Last […]

November 12, 2018

Critical infrastructures are radically transforming on an unprecedented scale, boosted by a rapid adoption of ‘smart’ operational technologies. Cybersecurity is a growing part of that evolution. ABI Research forecasts security spending for the protection of critical infrastructures will hit US$125 […]

November 1, 2018

While you likely don’t stop to think about water or energy industries when you grab a drink of water or flip on the lights, you would definitely notice if your electricity or water stopped working. You might not know why […]

October 29, 2018

Russian hackers have recently been linked to cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure in other countries, raising concerns about the nation’s ability to target U.S. utilities. Security firm FireEye this week said a Russian-linked research institute likely helped develop malicious software that […]

September 26, 2018

The issue for cloud adopters is no longer where your data sits in AWS, on-premises, Azure, Salesforce, or what have you. The important questions are: Who has access to it, and how is it protected? Cloud adoption is becoming more […]

September 12, 2018

It’s more critical than ever for states to protect our democratic system and voting infrastructure from foreign cyber espionage. In the past, a midterm election season would pass without much fanfare. These have been torpid affairs with low voter turnout […]

June 4, 2018

The Industrial Internet of Things allows organizations to address both physical and digital security concerns. With more than 327,000 robberies occurring last year in the United States, and with firearms used in roughly 40% of those incidents, security continues to […]

June 1, 2018

A report from the Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security provides five goals for protecting infrastructure from botnets and other automated threats. In May 2017, the Trump administration issued Executive Order 13800, “Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical […]

April 24, 2018

.bit domains are increasingly being used to hide payloads, stolen data, and command and control servers, FireEye says. In a troubling trend for enterprises and law enforcement, threat actors are ramping up their use of blockchain domains to hide malicious […]

April 10, 2018

Last October the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) published a technical alert on advanced persistent threat (APT) activity targeting energy and other critical infrastructure sectors. Recently, it was updated with new information uncovered since the original report, and […]

September 13, 2017

The United States Department of Energy announced on Tuesday its intention to invest up to $50 million in the research and development of tools and technologies that would make the country’s energy infrastructure more resilient and secure. Over $20 million […]