Successful mitigation of today’s security threats requires an approach that is both on the offensive and on the defensive. Here, we give our take on how to approach and handle specific security challenges, as well as our reaction to some of the latest industry topics.
12.06.22How We Used A Vishing Test to Attack an Internal Corporate Network We are back with the third and final write-up of our social engineering blog series to add to previous posts about an email phishing campaign and target phishing scenarios using social media. This post is all about a vishing call! Vishing or Voice… Read more »
10.06.22DirectDefense conducted cyber penetration tests for a municipality and found some significant gaps within the SCADA network.
09.21.22Breaking Down an Email Phishing Campaign Based on Relationships We are back, with a new blog in our social engineering series – all about target phishing. In my previous post, we discussed a phishing campaign engagement where an email is sent to multiple targets, and the attackers wait for replies. Target phishing, however, depends more… Read more »
07.27.22DirectDefense conducted a physical security test at a utility company and was able to have their run of the business – and a Tesla.
03.31.22Navigating the 5 Stages of Grief Following an Incident Response Event Are you a victim of a data breach and are you feeling signs of grief? You’re not alone. As an incident response professional, I have met many different types of corporate staff, from the IT staff to the C-suite. Unfortunately, it was probably on… Read more »
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 »
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 »
01.26.22Security company Qualys has uncovered a dangerous PolicyKit vulnerability. Learn how to remediate and patch Linux.
12.09.21What to Know, How to Prepare, and How We Got Here When 2021 began, everything from the pandemic to the economy felt uncertain. Security threats increased both as a result of those uncertainties and the ever-growing sophistication of the threat landscape. In this post, we’ll review the events that created security threats in 2021 and… Read more »
01.12.21Keep Your Organization Safe Around the Clock with a Cybersecurity Operations Center from an MSSP Here’s a projection that’s hard to ignore: the cost of cybercrime is expected to exceed $8 billion by 2022. The reality of that amount of financial fallout from cyber attacks is staggering. Driving up the cost of cybercrime is the… Read more »
