NIS Investments 2024 (ENISA)

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This report aims at providing policy makers with evidence to assess the effectiveness of the existing EU cybersecurity framework specifically through data on how the NIS Directive has influenced cybersecurity investments and overall maturity of organisations in scope. As 2024 is the year of the transposition of NIS 2, this report also intends to capture a pre-implementation snapshot of the relevant metrics for new sectors and entities in scope of NIS 2 to help future assessments of the impact of NIS 2. This fifth iteration of the report presents data from 1350 organisations from all 27 EU Member States covering all NIS 2 sectors of high criticality, as well as the manufacturing sector.
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10 Most Impactful PAM Use Cases for Enhancing Organizational Security

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Privileged access management (PAM) plays a pivotal role in building a strong security strategy. PAM empowers you to significantly reduce cybersecurity risks, gain tighter control over privileged access, achieve regulatory compliance, and reduce the burden on your IT team.  As an established provider of a PAM solution, we’ve witnessed firsthand how PAM transforms organizational security. In
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North Korean Front Companies Impersonate U.S. IT Firms to Fund Missile Programs

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Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are impersonating U.S.-based software and technology consulting businesses in order to further their financial objectives as part of a broader information technology (IT) worker scheme. "Front companies, often based in China, Russia, Southeast Asia, and Africa, play a key role in masking the workers' true origins and
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Cyber Story Time: The Boy Who Cried « Secure! »

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As a relatively new security category, many security operators and executives I’ve met have asked us “What are these Automated Security Validation (ASV) tools?” We’ve covered that pretty extensively in the past, so today, instead of covering the “What is ASV?” I wanted to address the “Why ASV?” question. In this article, we’ll cover some common use cases and misconceptions of how people misuse
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Over 145,000 Industrial Control Systems Across 175 Countries Found Exposed Online

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New research has uncovered more than 145,000 internet-exposed Industrial Control Systems (ICS) across 175 countries, with the U.S. alone accounting for over one-third of the total exposures. The analysis, which comes from attack surface management company Censys, found that 38% of the devices are located in North America, 35.4% in Europe, 22.9% in Asia, 1.7% in Oceania, 1.2% in South America,
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5 Scattered Spider Gang Members Indicted in Multi-Million Dollar Cybercrime Scheme

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Five alleged members of the infamous Scattered Spider cybercrime crew have been indicted in the U.S. for targeting employees of companies across the country using social engineering techniques to harvest credentials and using them to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and break into crypto accounts to steal digital assets worth millions of dollars. All of the accused parties have been
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