Cybersecurity for Political Campaigns Like businesses that increasingly rely on technology, political campaigns are vulnerable to cyberattacks and cyberespionage. All Internet connected organizations including political campaigns are the target of cybercriminals, nation-states, hacktivists, and even their election rivals. Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are just a few of the political candidates and entities that have been the victim of a cyberbreach. Read more...
Protecting Okta with ThreatInsight Okta has defensive features collectively known as ThreatInsight to protect customers from credential-based attacks like these. By aggregating data about potentially malicious sign-in activity across all Okta customers, ThreatInsight helps prevent attacks such as password spraying, credential stuffing, and brute-force cryptographic attacks. Read more...
What is DNS Sinkholing? DNS sinkholing is a cyber security technique used to protect computer networks from malicious websites and other online threats. It works by redirecting traffic from known malicious domains to a sinkhole, which is essentially a dead end that prevents the traffic from reaching its intended destination. Read more...
Should GitHub Be Blocked in Your Network? Due to the cybersecurity risks associated with GitHub, should your organization restrict access to the online collaboration development platform? Read more...
Blocking Hostile Geolocations with Cisco Firepower - With billions of IPv4 addresses and a seemingly unlimited number of IPv6 addresses, there are many dangerous locations on the Internet. Although geolocating IP addresses is an inexact science, Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) can block hostile Internet traffic based upon the location of the address. Read more...
Is the Government Scanning Your Network? If you are in the UK, the answer will soon be yes. On November 1, 2022, the United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the government agency that leads the country's cyber security mission, announced that they are going to begin scanning all Internet-exposed devices hosted in their home country for vulnerabilities. Read more...