Week in review: 5 popular cybersecurity exploitation techniques, new issue of (IN)SECURE Magazine
Summary
“Halfway into 2021, there have been 33 0-day exploits used in attacks that have been publicly disclosed this year — 11 more than the total number from 2020,” researchers with Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) have pointed out in a recent blog post. In fact, no single security effort can ever be considered entirely effective when facing off against threat actors that use automation to evade detection and identify an enterprise’s weak points. In 2019 alone, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) collected a massive $15.2 million in fines related to HIPAA violations. A fundamental rethink is needed by organizations to ensure they are set up to continuously adapt and evolve to meet the rapidly changing nature of threats. The real cost of MSSPs not implementing new tech Enterprises have plenty to manage as their infrastructures scale with a growing and increasingly complex cloud computing environment.