SIEM: Your Go-To Cybersecurity Solution of Choice
Introduction The digital world has made many things relatively easy to accomplish. The wide variety of apps and huge repositories of information available at one’s fingertips has made it a breeze for users in the corporate or consumer space to attain what they are looking for. Users are literally spoiled for choice by the plethora […]
The Looming Threat of Fatigue, Stress and Burnout in Cybersecurity
The March 2022 attack on communications app maker 3CX was not the first attempt by threat actors to monetize their scams. Perpetrated by the Labyrinth Chollima group based in North Korea, the attack – nicknamed Smooth Operator – has however been acknowledged as the first recorded instance of a breach that linked two separate supply […]
Managing the Risks of Generative AI and LLMs Through Technological Advances
The RSA Conference in San Francisco in April 2023 brought into sharp focus the increasing role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in shaping the digital landscape, with particular emphasis on its implications for cybersecurity. Featuring perspectives on the benefits and risks of AI, the event included presentations from a wide range of experts from the administrative, […]
Identity Fabric Immunity – IAM Redefined
Introduction At the March 2023 Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit, which brought together the Who’s Who of the cyber security world to debate the evolving world of Identity Fabric Immunity, the script could well have read ‘In the beginning there was IAM’. In a series of eye-opening presentations, Gartner’s experts led the elite audience […]
Shadow AI – The New Insider Threat
The advent of Zero Trust spawned the mantra ‘Trust no one, verify everyone.’ After a spate of serious data breaches involving their employees, organizations began to admit that insider threats were no less a danger than threats from malicious external actors. Insider threats, however, could still be categorized based on their intention. There were intentional […]
Digital Supply Chains: Under Siege in the Cyber Realm
Introduction Though the evolution of cyber threats (1) dates back to 2013 when Iranian hackers breached the Bowman Avenue Dam in New York and seized control of the dam’s floodgates, the year 2021 is generally recognized as the benchmark year for cyber attacks on digital supply chains. The month of May 2021 witnessed a series […]
The Advantages of Vendor Consolidation and Product Convergence in Cybersecurity
Introduction As with the case of every other entity, the suite of applications, platforms, and software procured over a period by an organization, can become disorganized, unmanageable, and even inoperable and redundant to an extent. The same can be said of the numerous vendors who provide/service them. Once ‘best-in-breed’ solution/s, they were most probably procured […]
Cyberbullying: The Real and Present Danger
Introduction From time immemorial, human beings have tried, with varying degrees of success, to impose themselves on others, with a view to profit from the reactions that their offensive and slanderous overtures result in. Face-to-face bullying can be traced back to ancient civilizations when both kings and paupers alike resorted to domineering ways to further […]
Enhancing Productivity and Security: The Case for a Clean Desk Policy in Organizations
In a corporate world seemingly already overwhelmed with a variety of policies – HR, Safety, Infotech, HSE, to name just a few – it may seem the addition of the Clean Desk Policy (CDP) is one more in a long list of policies that employees in an organization are required to follow. Not so, especially […]
Exploring the Synergy: Big Data, AI, and the Human Interface
Think about the future and the John Lennon hit Imagine comes readily to mind. Though the iconic singer-songwriter alluded to a non-material world in the song, its central theme, so aptly represented by its title, could easily refer to the times in which we live. As the cyber world takes quantum strides with the introduction […]
