DATA SECURITY
Nuspire | June 15, 2021
A leading managed security services provider (MSSP), Nuspire, has announced its 2021 Q1 Threat Landscape Report release. The report includes techniques and procedures (TTPs) with additional insight from its threat intelligence partner, Recorded Future, and new cybercriminal activity and tactics sourced from 90 billion traffic logs.
Nuspire had a 1,527% increase in Pulse Connect Secure VPN and a 1,916% increase in attacks against Fortinet's SSL-VPN in Q1 2021. Various vulnerabilities happen to allow a threat actor to get access to a network. They exfiltrate information and install ransomware once they are in.
Due to the increase in RDP and VPN vulnerabilities, threat reports of Nuspire find out botnet, malware, and suspicious activities are down compared to Q4. But still, threat actors are on the prowl. Other significant findings included in Nuspire's 2021 Q1 Threat Landscape Report are:
• Emotet botnet activity dropped -99.96% after the announcement of Law Enforcement seizing their infrastructure.
• ZeroAccess Botnet activity rushed during one week by 619,460% before trailing down into the end of the quarter.
• SMB Login Brute Force efforts contained 69.73% of all exploit activity witnessed in Q1.
About Nuspire
Nuspire, a security services provider (MSSP), is revolutionizing cybersecurity involvement by taking a hopeful and people-first approach. Nuspire offers complete services that syndicate award-winning threat recognition with more excellent response competencies to deliver end-to-end security across the gateway, network, and endpoint ecosystem. Our customer base spans thousands of enterprises of all sizes across numerous businesses and realizes the extreme risk reduction per cyber-dollar spent. At Nuspire, we are laser-focused on bringing a fantastic cybersecurity experience that surpasses the expectations of the clients.
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Living Security | May 27, 2021
Living Security, a pioneer in Human Risk Management and a cybersecurity awareness training leader, is proud to host this year's Breaking Security Awareness Conference 2021, which will be held virtually on Thursday, June 24, 2021.
The free event will educate business, IT, and security leaders on the most recent threats emerging in our increasingly digital world, as well as explain how effective training can protect employees both at work and at home.
The conference will include a panel of industry thought leaders who will discuss topics such as:
• Human risk management
• Social engineering
• DEI in cybersecurity
• Enterprise security awareness
• Remote working security
• Ransomware
Among the speakers this year are executives from Amplitude, Cisco, CISO Series, Forrester, LARES, National CyberSecurity Alliance (NCSA), Netflix, Social Engineer, and Yass Partners.
About Living Security
The objective of Living Security, which was founded in 2017, is to help prevent cybersecurity breaches by providing a human risk management platform that does more than just meet compliance requirements. It has a real effect on behavior. Living Security believes that empowering individuals is the key to putting an end to breaches. Gamified learning and immersive experiences engage and educate users, while the science-backed, tech-enabled platform enables CISOs to measure efficacy and program ROI uniquely.
The Living Security team named one of Austin's Best Places to Work is made up of 50+ cybersecurity professionals dedicated to redefining security awareness training as we know it and transforming end-users into the enterprise's greatest asset against cybercrime. CVS Health, MasterCard, Verizon, MassMutual, Biogen, AmerisourceBergen, Hewlett Packard, JP Morgan, and Target are among the companies that rely on Living Security.
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prnewswire | January 14, 2021
PTC and Cybellum, an innovator in Automotive Cybersecurity Risk Assessment, today declare an association to convey a mix between PTC's Windchill RV&S and Cybellum's foundation. The joint arrangement will give computerized network protection checking to programming created utilizing Windchill RV&S, to guarantee consistence with all the necessary wellbeing and security guidelines.
PTC's Windchill RV&S joins prerequisites designing, thorough programming setup control and test the executives to guarantee makers assemble the correct items. The product source code and assembled executables are overseen inside Windchill RV&S, and during registration, Cybellum's complete stage flawlessly directs network protection assessments. Joint clients would now be able to characterize programming security contemplations right off the bat in the item life cycle, one next to the other with their entire item designing cycle. They would then be able to design their execution, compute and deal with the related network protection chances with regards to the entire item.
Programming engineers can likewise proactively test and fix the distinguished security or wellbeing dangers utilizing the consequently created, itemized direction. This can guarantee that basic wellbeing and security weaknesses are recognized, overseen, organized and relieved all through the designing cycle, ensuring that your items are free from any and all harm.
The joint arrangement additionally encourages clients to plan for and conform to existing and forthcoming network protection guidelines, (for example, ISO 26262 Road Vehicles Functional Safety, UN WP29 (World Forum for harmonization of Vehicle Regulation), and ISO 21434 DIS Road vehicles Cybersecurity Engineering).
"We are excited about the partnership with PTC, helping product development teams shift left by embedding cybersecurity risk assessment processes and prevent vulnerabilities early in the delivery process of software-intensive products," said Michael Engestler, co-founder and CTO of Cybellum. "Through the unique integration with PTC Windchill RV&S we empower manufacturers to control, trace and mitigate safety and security issues early on, ultimately delivering safe and secure products."
"We see this integration as a significant enhancement for PTC customers who are particularly concerned about the cybersecurity of the software they manage with Windchill RV&S," said Hedley Apperly, VP SSE Products, PTC. He continued, "This automated security scanning and remediation mentoring will be invaluable to any manufacturer building software intensive products, which are vulnerable to cyber-attack."
About Cybellum
Cybellum empowers automotive OEMs and suppliers to identify and remediate security risks at scale, throughout the entire vehicle life cycle. Our agentless solution scans embedded software components without needing access to their source code, exposing all cyber vulnerabilities. Manufacturers can then take immediate actions to eliminate any cyber risk in the development and production process, before any harm is done, while continuously monitoring for emerging threats impacting vehicles on the road.
About PTC
PTC enables global manufacturers to realize double-digit impact with software solutions that enable them to accelerate product and services innovation, improve operational efficiency, and increase workforce productivity. In combination with an extensive partner network. PTC provides customers flexibility in how its technology can be deployed and drive digital transformation – on premises, in the cloud, or via its pure SaaS platform. At PTC, we don't just imagine a better world, we enable it.
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