Security

As if cyber-defense wasn’t difficult enough – try battling malware that constantly changes its identifiable features in order to evade detection. Polymorphic malware isn’t new; the first polymorphic virus dates back to 1989. But fast-changing polymorphic malware now makes up 97% of the malware organizations face – updating itself with new definitions every few days, mutating faster than traditional security systems can keep up and making previous detection signatures obsolete. There are… Read More

Based on the continuously increasing and evolving threat landscape, we are excited to announce a significant enhancement to DataEndure’s SOC & MDR offerings with the addition of  eXtended Security Controls Validation & Vulnerability Scanning (eSCV). With cloud expansion at an all-time high, eSCV will afford customers the same peace of mind about the security of their external and cloud assets as they have with our internal Security Controls Validation, included… Read More

Over the course of any given year, we will have thousands of conversations with IT leaders about infrastructure and cyber-resilience. As we enter 2022, there were 3 Top Priorities organizations seemed to be talking about that we thought were important enough to share.  In fact, we discussed this same topic in our December 2021 TECH talk which you can watch here. With our unique position as a solution integrator and… Read More

As organizations look for help managing their technology, there are a wide and growing number of choices. The Managed Service Provider (MSP) market is booming as are Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP). For consumers, this is good news / bad news. The good news – you have a lot of choices. The bad news – it is very hard to differentiate between all of the choices. The focus of an MSP… Read More

Ponemon’s Cost of a Data Breach Report was recently updated for 2021, and notably, 65% of organizations said they do not have Zero Trust implemented. And of those, 43% have no plans to deploy it. Given how convoluted the topic of Zero Trust can be those statistics aren’t particularly surprising. Yet given the security threats we face today and the changing nature of the enterprise, Zero Trust is a critical… Read More

Originally posted on LinkedIn by DataEndure Cloud and Data Science Practice Manager, Scott Stephenson. More and more organizations are engaging in software development. The reasons for doing so are diverse: providing a service interface for a legacy system, creating operations scripts to automate IT tasks, or even building entire SaaS services, software tools, or products. Organizations that may have never considered software development now find they need to engage in… Read More

Originally posted by DataEndure CMO, Kirstin Burke, on linkedin.com Highlighting the news today is a  second massive LinkedIn breach that reportedly exposes the data of 700M users – over 92% of LinkedIn’s total user community.* Moreover, the hacker has published one million sample dataset on the Dark Web, with records including phone numbers, email and physical addresses, geolocation data, other social media accounts and user names as well as inferred salaries. While no passwords seem… Read More

Originally posted by DataEndure CMO, Kirstin Burke, on linkedin.com No matter how you slice it, cybersecurity is a huge issue for organizations, and it’s not getting better any time soon. The cost of cybercrime soared to over $1 trillion in 2020, according to McAfee. As a response, companies may look to increase their cybersecurity budgets. Here’s the rub – many are actually underinvesting in the solutions needed to meet today’s threat… Read More

One of the recurring themes we are hearing from organizations is that in their rush to respond to increased security threats over the past year, GRC (Governance, Risk management, and Compliance) has taken a back seat. In reality, security and compliance are intertwined, so the better organizations can manage their GRC effort, the better their security will be. The pandemic has created a scenario where organizations have had to scramble… Read More