How to prepare against attacks from the dark web

The Domain Name System (DNS) plays a critical role in modern network connectivity. Unfortunately, it is also a central part of many cyber-attacks as DNS is involved in more than 90% of malware/ransomware and nearly half of all data exfiltration incidents. So how exactly how do cyber-criminals use DNS to carry out attacks? In this webinar we will examine the many ways cybercriminals exploit the unique properties of DNS.

Securing the cloud comes with many challenges, which have further been compounded with the pandemic and the increased attack surface the cloud brings. As part of a global research project, Vectra surveyed security professionals to find out the impact the past 12 months have had on their organisation’s corporate risk profiles and their own jobs.

Cloud is the dominant computing trend of our time, and Linux is the power behind it. As enterprises continue to adopt more cloud native infrastructure, we see accelerated adoption of Linux in the form of both migrations of existing infrastructure and greenfield application deployment. Unfortunately the approach to securing this growing fleet of production servers has not evolved at the same pace.

While compromised passwords remain the top cause of breaches and attacks, working from home and leveraging new tools has resulted in an explosion of new, decentralized employee passwords outside of the enterprise applications onboarded to your identity and privileged access management program. This shadow IT creates significant cybersecurity risk for your company with hundreds of employee passwords, secrets, and files shared in chats and texts, stored in spreadsheets, and saved on sticky notes. Or worse, passwords are reused across personal and corporate accounts on the internet.