Tales From the Road: What Effective Endpoint Security Looks Like
04.20.22Well-configured endpoint security is critical to protect against a ransomware attack or a security breach, and requires some extra attention.
04.20.2204.20.22Author: Bethany Kozal
04.20.22
Tales from the Road: The Anatomy of Password Attacks
03.16.22It’s time to rethink your password policy to prevent modern password attacks. If you think your company’s policy of requiring passwords to have a minimum length of eight characters, in addition to other complexity requirements, is sufficient to effectively prevent modern password attacks, think again. Our client, a global corporation with business units in more… Read more »
Tales From the Road: Got Critical Infrastructure?
03.08.22Avoid these three pitfalls that are inherent to most SCADA systems that manage critical infrastructure. A multinational corporation enlisted the services of DirectDefense to perform a security assessment of the organization’s newly-developed battery energy storage control (BESS) that would enable the company’s vendors and integrators to manage the voltage and power output for massive batteries.… Read more »
Tales From the Road: If Your SCADA Network Isn’t Segmented, It’s Not Secure
07.26.21Newsflash: Most networks utilized for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) were not designed to be secure. Yes, you read that correctly. Kind of a scary thought, especially when your municipal water utility is reliant on this SCADA network to ensure the availability and safety of the drinking water supply! This is why the management… Read more »
Tales From the Road: A Wake-Up Call to the Food Production Industry
07.01.21Tighten Cybersecurity Controls Before the Next Ransomware Attack Comes to You Food production is highly regulated by the Federal Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to ensure food safety. However, the computer systems that are used to accomplish and maintain food safety processes don’t fall under the purview of those… Read more »
Tales From the Road: Think Your Web App is Hacker-Proof? Think again…
06.17.21How we identified serious vulnerabilities in a client’s web app that would allow bad actors to view confidential information.
Tales From The Road: PCI Compliance 101: Don’t Keep your Network in the Housekeeping Storage Room
05.18.21How a recent DirectDefense physical penetration test to test PCI compliance demonstrated how credit card data could be easily stolen.
Tales From The Road: Gone Phishin’!
05.11.21How DirectDefense leveraged the pandemic to exploit remote access security for a large corporate network through an email phishing campaign While most of the world was busy adapting to the Work from Anywhere #WFA movement that the pandemic suddenly brought on, a certain segment of the population saw a unique opportunity to get into an… Read more »
Your Detailed Out-of-Office Autoresponder Could be Putting Your Organization’s Email Security at Risk
05.10.21When it comes to email security, did you know your out-of-office autoresponder could be making your organization more vulnerable to attack?
Tales from the Road: Taking Control of Access Controls to Protect Sensitive Data from Unauthorized Users
04.29.21How a recent DirectDefense security assessment revealed a common application vulnerability through commandeering access controls.
