This report provides new intelligence by the NCSC on two tools used by the Turla group to target the UK. It contains IOCs and signatures for detection by network defenders.

“Many businesses and government agencies have embraced supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems or industrial control systems (ICS) in recent years, but the technologies face major security challenges. Nearly 6 in 10 organizations using SCADA or ICS that were surveyed by Forrester Consulting in a study commissioned by Fortinet indicate they experienced a breach in those systems in the past year—and many of those organizations are adding to their risk by allowing technology and other partners a high level of access into their systems. Most organizations also report connections between their traditional IT systems and their SCADA/ICS, introducing the potential for outside hackers to penetrate these control systems.”

This e-book seeks to help you understand all of the many details necessary for succesful network management.

IBM Security and Ponemon Institute are pleased to release the 2018 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Overview1. They conducted interviews with more than 2,200 IT, data protection, and compliance professionals from 477 companies that have experienced a data breach over the past 12 months. According to the findings, data breaches continue to be costlier and result in more consumer records being lost or stolen, year after year.

This paper begins with a review of data sources available for building or improving decision models for vulnerability remediation. It then discusses the vulnerability lifecycle and examine timelines and triggers surrounding key milestones. Identifying attributes of vulnerabilities that correlate with exploitation comes next on the docket. The last section measures the outcomes of several remediation strategies and develops a model that optimizes overall effectiveness.

This is a threat advisory for betFIRST mobile apps

This global study examines 383 companies in 12 countries. It finds that $4 million is the average total cost of a data breach. It sees a 29% increase in total costs of data breaches since 2013. It finds that $158 is the average cost per lost or stolen record. Finally, there has been a 15% increase in per capita cost since 2013.

In partnership with the Information Security Community, Bitglass surveyed over 570 cybersecurity and IT professionals to learn how organizations are approaching cloud security. Read on to learn about the state of traditional tools, security measures IT leaders are taking, and cloud priorities for 2018.

In this report, they examine two factors that affected the financial consequences of a data breach. The first is executive involvement in their organization’s IT security strategy and response to data breaches. The second is the purchase of cyber insurance to mitigate the cost of a data breach.

In Threat Stack Cloud Security Report 2017: Security at Speed & Scale, they set out to determine how Operations, Security, and DevOps professionals are dealing with increasingly complex environments, using limited resources, as they seek to satisfy internal and external security demands along with compliance requirements. They also wanted to see how the rise of containerization is impacting this already complex dynamic. To accomplish this, they teamed with ESG Global to survey the organizations and individuals responsible for securing cloud-based applications within their organizations.

This paper provides insight into specific fines that will occurr due to the GDPR.

The Stuxnet and Ukranian power grid attacks give us clear ideas about how much damage a determined adversary can inflict not only on the business or operation concerned, but also on the general public. This paper takes a look at critical infrastructure attacks.

This report provides information regarding events from the first half of 2018.

Under most tested scenarios, Core Impact users can expect a notable reduction in both operator time and total elapsed time when performing common penetration testing tasks. This whitepaper presents the repeatable methodology and testing protocol used in our study.

The sixth annual Allianz Risk Barometer identifies the corporate perils for 2017 and beyond, based on the responses of more than 800 risk experts from 40+ countries around the globe.

Previously published in 2010 and 2013, the purpose of this third study is to continue to analyze the cost behavior of unplanned data center outages. According to our new study, the average cost of a data center outage has steadily increased from $505,502 in 2010 to $740,357 today (or a 38 percent net change).

As its title states, this white paper provides five reasons why you need endpoint backup, specifically a centralized backup service.

In this study they characterize the extent to which cyber security incidents, such as those referenced by Verizon in its annual Data Breach Investigations Reports (DBIR), can be predicted based on externally observable prop- erties of an organization’s network.

This report takes a look at the future of the retail industry and how an organizations network can assist with customer experience.

The fifth annual Allianz Risk Barometer identifies the corporate perils for 2016 and beyond, based on the responses of more than 800 risk experts from 40+ countries around the globe.

This report is an analaysis of Article 13a annual incident reports in the telecomm sector of the EU.