Over the years, pen tests have increasingly become a mandated component of regulatory and compliance standards. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requiring pentests be performed in card data environments (CDEs) grew this need for compliance-based pen testing.
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about How to Get the Most out of Pen Tests
Despite the best efforts of automation and AI, we will always need people to prevent hackers from stealing data and wreaking havoc on computer networks essential for most businesses today. In essence, a domino effect over the last two years of Covid-19 has led to the “Great Resignation” and the “Great Retirement.”
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about The Great Resignation Isn’t Going Away. Here’s How to Retain Your Cybersecurity Employees.
Exploit Intelligence offers an end-to-end solution that prioritizes which risks to remediate immediately, before they are exploited, by proactively discovering external assets, testing vulnerabilities, and providing expert threat- plus risk-based insight.
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about Empowering Security Operations To Know Which Risks to Remediate First
Equipping defenders with exploit intelligence is a way CyCognito helps defenders learn the offensive security side of things.
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about Exploit Intelligence: It’s Not Just for Offensive Security Pros Anymore
Imagine a cybersecurity team that is working hard with the usual tools and best practices. All seems on course for protecting the enterprise attack surface.
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about Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Discover Everything
Business risks lurk in many places. For cybersecurity, the worst risks are often the ones you never saw coming. A Real World Example To illustrate, consider this real example: A manufacturing conglomerate has an engineer build a Javascript connector for remote access to a mainframe but inadvertently exposes it to the internet. How do you discover this risk and its potential damage? A penetration test will not help unless you happen to be testing that particular machine among hundreds or thousands of servers. A vulnerability scan also will not help, as the risk will be invisible because it is not…
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about Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Assess All Assets to Detect All Risks
With a global pandemic affecting everyone, prioritization has determined Covid-19 vaccination eligibility and in what order people receive their vaccine.
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about Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Prioritize Risks that Endanger Your Business
Risk remediation is a wildly unequal race between attackers with advanced processes and attack tools and defenders struggling to keep afloat with tedious, manual processes and 20-year-old technology.
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about Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Winning the Remediation Race
Every time a new security gap is created, it is an all-out race between attackers and defenders, with the winner taking all.
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about Principles of Attack Surface Protection: Time Crowns the Winner in Security
Over the last 16 months, the statistics show a consistent increase in breaches and a rise in insurance payouts and loss ratios. The cyber insurance industry urgently needs to adopt practices that align with the reality of cybercrime.
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about The Shifting World of Cyber Insurance