Enterprise Phishing Attacks & the Need to Defend Mobile Endpoints

Security organizations are overworked and constrained. As more systems and users come online, it becomes more difficult to manage alerts and administer access to sometimes hundreds of applications for thousands of employees.

Open source software (OSS) has had a tremendous impact on the development and distribution of the software we depend on today. Through its collaborative and open way of both developing and sharing software components, OSS has served as a key engine for innovation and encouraged the widespread reuse and sharing of core software components. Organizations of all sizes are heavily reliant on software, and much of that software supply chain consists of open source software components. Because of this, open source software has cybersecurity implications.

In the era of globalization, as the international division of labor goes deeper, the industrial development shifts from “manufacturing economy to service economy” and “from hardware manufacturing to soft manufacturing.” The manufacturing industry aims to enhance its international competitiveness with the added value created by the service industry. As a major producer of global ICT products, Taiwan plays an important role in the security industry supply chain during the China-U.S. trade war. It is high time Taiwan develops “Internet of Things Security” and “Secure Internet of Things” with its complete semiconductor industry supply chain. To grasp this opportunity, Taiwanese manufacturers are striving to become not only product suppliers but also cyber security solution providers by taking advantage of the global cyber security research and development. By offering products with distinguishing cyber security functions to customers based on their needs, Taiwanese manufacturers are expecting to create higher added value.

Newly discovered vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICS) are targeted more than ever. In fact, the number of ICS-CERT advisories increased by 56.2% from 2020 to 2021 according to the TXOne Networks 2021 Cybersecurity Report. Many of these systems include legacy devices that were designed before cybersecurity became a serious concern, leaving them highly susceptible to emerging threats.