is not a black-and-white issue.” Cybersecurity standards change regularly. Plus, they vary based on industry, applications, and client resources. And the expectations of an MSP and its customers may vary too. So, what’s to be done?
Testing is a reliable way to increase physical security. Companies that have strong security protocols test their policies to see if they need to be updated or changed. Such tests can includered teaming, where a group of ethical hackers try to infiltrate a company's cybersecurity protocols. Fin...
Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity is a key component of protecting the uptime, security and safety of industrial environments and critical infrastructure.
SHA-1 is another popular hashing algorithm that generates a 160-bit hash value. The NSA (National Security Agency) developed it as a successor to MD5. The increased hash length makes it less prone to collisions where two different inputs generate the same hash. This algorithm is expressed as...
A common cryptography definition is the practice of coding information to ensure only the person that a message was written for can read and process the information. Thiscybersecuritypractice, also known as cryptology, combines various disciplines like computer science, engineering, and mathematics to ...
Brute force attacks. In these cyber security attacks, hackers gain unauthorized access to sensitive data or a system by guessing usernames and passwords. Malicious code/Malware. Any software, file, or program that is harmful to a computer user such as worms, Trojan horses, computer viruses, spy...
The U.S. Department of Stateonly grantssecurity clearance to U.S. citizens. Lack of U.S. citizenship is an automatic disqualifier from the process. However, foreign national employees might get restricted access to classified information in some cases. ...
Defense in depth comes from the National Security Agency (NSA). It was conceived as a comprehensive approach to information security and cyber security. The term was inspired by a military strategy with the same name. In practice, the military strategy and the information assurance strategy diffe...
The cybersecurity landscape is evolving every day, with rising AI driven threats and changing regulatory demands. Business need to master the foundational practices, embrace zero trust principles and prepare for new regulation and compliance requirements
The U.S. and China are beginning the cybersecurity dialogue fromvery disparate standpoints. The U.S. has charged China with being a cyber aggressor and a thief. China refers to these charges as “groundless” and maintains the stance that the U.S. is seeking “Internet hegemony,” or co...