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As phishing email attacks become more sophisticated and more businesses and educational institutions continue to support remote work options, having a fast phishing alert system is critical to avoid data breaches. Phish AIR is a free email add-in developed by DTonomy, which provides users an easy-to-use tool for acquiring important information about suspicious and potentially malicious phishing

Phishing emails are a type of online scam where criminals send an email that appears to be from a legitimate company and ask you to provide sensitive information. This is usually done by including a link that will appear to take you to the company’s website to fill in your information – but the website

Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is both a strategy as well as software products and technologies that are designed to prevent critical information from being leaked by end users – either inadvertently or deliberately – outside of an organization’s network. The impact of data loss and leaks is staggering – the Ponemon Institute’s Cost of a Data Breach report puts

Root Cause Analysis is a Highly Time-Consuming Process  Due to the high volume of alerts that security analysts face every day, many alerts are investigated and resolved without understanding the root cause, especially for alerts with weak signals, leaving organizations at risk.  In resolving alerts, it may take ½ second to mark something as false

Managed Detection and Response companies that augment in house security teams with unique skills to improve their threat detection, incident response and monitoring of assets are facing increasing challenges:  With COVID19 and more people working from home on personal devices and potentially unsecured networks, the attack surface that MDR vendors are now responsible for securing

Running a SOC center with many customers relying on analysts to quickly detect, investigate and resolve security incidents requires the best and most advanced tools on the market today. As a result, many SOC operators are deploying Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR). This is a good first step, but not

Hackers Increasingly Exploiting Cloud Misconfigurations When Covid-19 exploded on the scene, companies rushed to send employees to work from home. In order to make essential business systems and applications available to remote workers, they also in some cases moved quickly to cloud based deployments. To support these legions of remote workers and give them access

According to a study last year by Capgemini Research Institute titled Reinventing Cybersecurity with Artificial Intelligence: The New Frontier in Digital Security, they stated that before 2019 only about one in five cybersecurity organizations used AI in their technology stacks. But Capgemini researchers said “adoption is poised to skyrocket,” with about 63% of organizations planning

Fleming Shi, Chief Technology Officer at Barracuda, an email security company, shared highlights from a recent survey that found that almost half (46%) of global businesses have encountered at least one cybersecurity scare since shifting to a remote working model during the COVID-19 lockdown. And that 49 percent say they expect to see a data

These are highly challenging times in Cyber Security. The volume, complexity and sophistication of threats continues to increase at an alarming and exponential rate. Today, manually intensive and repeatable tasks and processes can’t scale, leaving security analysts overwhelmed and fatigued. In some cases, serious threats are potentially overlooked or not handled in a timely fashion;