I recount a case from one of my previous CISO positions, at a bank network with 1000+ employees. A serious exploit was experienced in the branch network, affecting certain accounts’ balance data. During the tedious and complex investigation, my team and I discovered that a member of our workforce was able to carry out the …
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Every piece of information has value for somebody. Credit card data, personal data, business information, legal documents… Cybercriminals still compose complicated attacks today but there is one thing in common in all of them: they all do intelligence gathering which includes not only the technological circumstances but the organization too. To succeed they have …
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As Salesforce’s Chief Trust Officer, Jim Alkove put it in the World Economic Forum: “Cyber resilience starts with nailing the cyber security basics. At Salesforce, we call it ´doing the common uncommonly well.´… Business resources are often still allocated to defensive cyber security, which is focused on protecting the confidentiality and integrity of data. But …
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Cyber security threats are often overlooked by SMBs, thinking “they’re not big enough” to be an actual target. This attitude leaves open doors for attackers, because not all cyber criminals go after the big fish, there are other levels on the food chain and attackers are ready to devour your company data or even more …
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Phishing attacks are the most common cause for data theft, so the goal of this article is to teach you some self-defense strategies. Just like in martial arts, the key to self-defense relies on two factors: know the enemy: raise cyber security awareness in your company know yourself: identify access risk in your company and …
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We are proud to announce that XS MATRIX is listed in the latest 2020 release of ECSO CYBERSECURITY MARKET RADAR which collects significant vendors on the European cybersecurity market and deployment-ready cybersecurity solutions. With more than 100 European cybersecurity companies the 3rd ECSO Cybersecurity Market Radar release presents rich European cybersecurity industry landscape. Our solutions …
Nowadays, employees can start working usefully at different organizations once they have got the necessary access rights in the system. There are several ways to obtain these: 1. The simplest, and for the smaller companies the most common, is that the manager calls/writes an email to their IT staff and asks them to create a new user, …
Continuous growth of unnecessary access rights, called ‘privilege creep’, have both technical and human causes. The technical reason is that in different software products, entitlements can usually be set very finely and in many ways, but in order to manage them easily and efficiently, they aggregate them into different groups. This means that the access objects, belonged to some software functions and …
Assigning unnecessary permissions to users puts both the organization and the user at risk. These cases can be so complex that I will demonstrate them in a series of articles later, for now, I present only the most common dangers. It can be dangerous for an organization that different kind of misuse can happen on behalf of a user: …
I’m starting a series of articles that will cover a significant topic: The Principle Of Least Privilege (PoLP). This extremely important topic is rarely mentioned in IT sphere. In my experience, the industry neglects the problem. The failure to comply with this challenging issue multiplies problems in many areas of IT security. My primary goal is to …
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| Company name: | XS Matrix Global Co. |
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| Address: | Suite # 300, 5966 South Dixie HWY, Miami, FL. 33143 |
