The cyber landscape is rapidly evolving, and schools, institutions entrusted with nurturing the future of the nation, are finding themselves at the crosshairs of malicious actors. A recent cybersecurity summit held at the White House cast a spotlight on the pressing issue of ransomware attacks plaguing U.S. schools.
Unmasking the hidden threat: when a leading Magic Quadrant EDR solution overlooked a malicious hash, a leading SOCaaS provider with its next-generation IDS stepped in to fortify the defense. Intercepting Threats Mid-Journey Picture this: A global transportation company is bustling with activity, its networks buzzing as goods are ferried across continents. On a particular day, something sinister...
What are access keys? Access keys are the credentials that AWS uses to identify and authenticate the user or programmatic access to AWS services. Access keys consist of an access key ID and a secret access key. The access key ID is a publicly available identifier that associates the key with the AWS account, while the secret access key is a private key that is used to sign requests to AWS.
What is GuardDuty? GuardDuty is a threat detection service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that continuously monitors and analyzes network activities, account behaviors, and AWS infrastructure configurations for potential security threats and violations. It uses machine learning algorithms, anomaly detection, and integrated threat intelligence to identify suspicious activities and behaviors...
In today's interconnected digital landscape, organizations face an ever-growing range of cybersecurity challenges.
The root user credential is a powerful tool that grants users U N R E S T R I C T E D access to Amazon AWS resources. Because of the unlimited access it possesses, it also poses a massive security risk as the loss or theft of the root user credentials can result in unauthorized access to your AWS account.
In today's digital landscape, security is paramount for any organization, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are no exception. With its vast array of features and services, AWS offers multiple layers of security to help safeguard your infrastructure and data. One such security measure is multi-factor authentication (MFA), which plays a critical role in strengthening the security of your AWS account.
Microsoft 365 is a cloud-based service designed to increase productivity and provide enterprise level services without having to invest into physical infrastructure such as servers. Since this is entirely online, this makes attacks on your tenant possible from anyone with internet access. Typically, attackers target accounts and use multiple techniques to attempt gaining access such as brute...
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Why is it in your best interest to monitor failed authentications?
Microsoft 365 has a wealth of security features and settings you can configure and implement to harden the security of your tenant. Among these are the alerts that are part of Microsoft’s Compliance center. This area houses the policies and reporting features of 365. Microsoft includes some alerting that can be managed here, including several pre-built default alerts you may not be aware of, but...
Ever since 2007 when the first samples were observed in the wild, QBot (also known as Qakbot or Pinkslipbot) suffered multiple transformations and mutations making it the most submitted malware family on multiple platforms that offer hosting for artifacts available to analyze.
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Microsoft 365, formerly known as Office 365, is a line of subscription services offered by Microsoft which adds to and includes the Microsoft Office product line.