Category: Security
Untrained end users are the biggest threat to cybersecurity
What is the biggest threat to IT infrastructure right now? According to one of Canada’s premier cybersecurity experts, if you answered malware or ransomware or crypto, you’d be wrong. According to Calgary-based cybersecurity leader Sonya Goulet, the most significant risk...
Cybersecurity service providers need to band together
Managed security service providers (MSSPs) along with global systems integrators that focus on security have a unique marketing and sales challenge. A recent global survey of 2,404 business decision makers conducted by B2B International on behalf of STANLEY Security, a...
Zero-Tolerance: Cheap cybersecurity is always a bad bargain
Cybercriminals have discovered a simple trick for multiplying their effectiveness: target MSPs themselves. If breaching one business’ systems is like slipping past a security guard unnoticed, infiltrating an MSP is like stealing that guard’s whole key ring. A successful MSP...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: SolarWinds Orion Backdoor
Advisory Overview SolarWinds Orion, a prominent IT monitoring and management solution, has been compromised with a backdoor by a sophisticated state-sponsored threat actor. The application has been discovered communicating with unknown third-party servers through traffic deliberately designed to mimic normal...
AI poised to make a comeback in 2021
After much fanfare and promise in 2018 and 2019, AI’s role in cybersecurity seemed to fly under the radar in 2020. But AI didn’t go anywhere, and we expect to hear much more about it in 2021. A couple of factors...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: FireEye Breach
Advisory Overview FireEye, a major cybersecurity organization, has reported a compromise that resulted in the theft of their suite of Red Team tools. While these tools do not contain any zero-day vulnerabilities, only widely known and documented methods, the theft...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Egregor Ransomware
Advisory Overview The Ransomware as a Service variant “Egregor” is spiking across the Cybersecurity and IT landscape after the shutdown of the notorious Maze ransomware campaign. Some major organizations have fallen victim to the malware including Kmart, Cencosud (a retail...
Tech Time Warp: FBI MoneyPak ransomware packs a punch
Imagine you’re mindlessly surfing the internet, when suddenly your screen locks and displays an ominous message: The FBI has “seized and frozen access” to your device because of online activities violating federal law. This convincing message would take even savvy...
Rethinking personally identifiable information in 2021
In a year full of data breaches, ransomware, and phishing, now is a good time to put things into perspective and perhaps rethink data security for the coming year. The fact is, all cybersecurity is created equal, and not all...
Five steps to building a managed security services offering
The turn of the new decade has been eventful. The global pandemic, the shift to a remote workforce, and the ever-growing number of cyberthreats and cyberattacks has made cybersecurity top of mind for businesses of all sizes. Our Evolving Landscape...
