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2021 Banking and Financial Services Industry Cyber Threat Landscape Report

Banks are uniquely exposed to secondhand risk and fraud resulting from compromises of payment card information at merchants in other industries, particularly retail, hospitality, and ecommerce. A significant proportion of fraud against retail banks issuing credit cards therefore results from incidents on networks and...

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2021 Energy, Utilities, and Industrials Cyber Threat Landscape Report

2021 has more than confirmed the need to protect critical infrastructure from cyber threats. The Colonial Pipeline incident illustrated that an IT compromise of an organization that also has OT can have a disruptive impact on its industrial operations, even if the attackers fail to move laterally into the more...

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Selling Breaches: The Transfer Of Enterprise Network Access On Criminal Forums

The sale and purchase of unauthorized access to compromised enterprise networks has become a significant enabler for criminal cyberattacks, particularly ransomware infections. Some cybercriminals specialize in network compromises and sell the access that they have obtained to third parties, rather than exploiting the...

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The Evolving Ransomware Threat: What Business Leaders Should Know About Data Leakage

As is the case with many data security best practices, most organizations are already falling behind in their ransomware-related precautions. The threats that are emerging today go well beyond simply taking a company offline and demanding payment to restore operations. Now, it’s all about the data. Download this...

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Uncovering the Dark Web: A Security Professional's Framework For Conducting Effective External Threat Hunting

A necessary pillar of an effective cyber defense strategy is the capability to detect and mitigate threats at the earliest stages of the cyber kill chain. While internal and perimeter security solutions are critical to your security program, external threat intelligence gives you the ability to defend forward by...

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The 2021 Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industry Cyber Threat Landscape Report

The healthcare and pharmaceutical industry is a target for both criminal and state-sponsored threats. More large healthcare data breaches were reported in 2020 than in any other year. Additionally, 2021 has seen five consecutive months where industry data breaches have been reported at a rate of two or more per...

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Understanding the Challenges of OT Vulnerability Management and How to Tackle Them

Industrial asset owners know that protecting the integrity of their systems is critical for maintaining operations, but the challenges around cybersecurity vulnerabilities make that job much harder. As environments become more connected, and attackers become more advanced, staying a step ahead has never been more...

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An Executive’s Guide to Industrial Cybersecurity: What You Need to Know

As enterprises invest heavily in digital transformation, industrial cybersecurity will increasingly serve as the critical enabler for safely and securely advancing business goals through technological innovation. While advancing connectivity and digitalization of operational technology (OT) provides significant...

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The Top 3 Cyber Challenges for Utilities

The business benefits of digital transformation in grid operations are tremendous, but this progress increases cyber risk to Operations Technology (OT) in the areas of safety, unscheduled downtime, and negative impact on corporate brand. The good news is that there are practical steps utilities can take to enhance...

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Global Electric Cyber Threat Perspective

The number of cyber intrusions and attacks targeting the Electric sector is increasing from Activity Groups (AG), or threat groups, and from ransomware operations. In 2020, Dragos identified three new AGs targeting the Electric sector. Of the AGs we are actively tracking, two-thirds of the groups targeting...

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The Cost of OT Cybersecurity Incidents and How to Reduce Risk

The World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Risk Report ranked cyberattacks causing disruption to operations and critical infrastructure among the top five increasing global risks. Accenture estimates that the number of cyberattacks has gone up by 67% in the last five years. The increasing digital connectivity of...

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Integrating OT into IT/OT SOCs

To reduce risk, security and risk management leaders should eliminate IT and OT silos by creating a single digital security and risk management function. This function should report into IT but should have responsibility for all IT and OT security. Integrating operational technology (OT) threat monitoring into...

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OT/IoT Security Report

Ransomware threats are now a board-level topic of conversation. All organizations with OT systems need to understand how these attacks are conducted and how to defend against them. A key industry trend is that vulnerabilities solely affecting the Critical Manufacturing sector rose by 148%. This poses an additional...

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A SANS 2021 Survey: OT/ICS Cybersecurity

The OT security world continues to change to meet new challenges and threats. The 2021 SANS OT/ICS Cybersecurity survey explores how OT defenders across all industries are meeting these challenges and looks to areas where new emphasis can be placed to defend our critical infrastructure as we move forward. Explore...

Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) Competitive Performance for Distributed Enterprise and SMB Use Cases

Business networks are a hybrid of local, remote and mobile networks that each introduce their own range of threats and vulnerabilities. Administrators need to ensure the organization, and all of its users, can safely access critical resources without affecting productivity, speed or security. Read this report to...