Author: Tony DeGonia

A security firm recently hired a software engineer for its internal AI team who turned out to be a North Korean threat actor who immediately began loading malware onto his company-issued workstation.

Ticketmaster owner Live Nation confirmed “unauthorised activity” on its database after a group of hackers said they had stolen the personal details of 560 million customers.

A cybersecurity sales engineer is a crucial link between the technical aspects of cybersecurity solutions and the sales process. Here are some key components that make up a successful cybersecurity sales engineer:

DNS is a global system for translating IP addresses to human-readable domain names. When a user tries to access a web address like “example.com,” their web browser or application performs a DNS Query against a DNS server, supplying the hostname. The DNS server takes the hostname and resolves it into a numeric IP address to which the web browser can connect.

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical infrastructure that is used to translate domain names into IP addresses, and it plays a key role in the functioning of the internet. As such, DNS is a common target for cyber-attacks, and there are several different types of threat vectors that are commonly associated with it.

What, you might ask, are industries and domains within cybersecurity?  Simply put, industries are groups of related companies based on their primary business activities.

Our network is always moving. Data flows from place to place, between all the endpoints that require rapid internet access. But like any traffic, this data can become congested – and some of it can be dangerous. 

Cybersecurity is time- and resource-intensive. The threat landscape continues to evolve, and security analysts are feeling burnt out. According to research, 54% of security operation center (SOC) teams say that they are drowning in alerts, and 55% are not confident that they can prioritize alerts or respond effectively.

Phishing is one of the most common and effective cybersecurity attack vectors, accounting for roughly a quarter of all ransomware attacks between 2019 and 2021, according to research from Cloudian.

In the day and age of COVID-19, we have witnessed a transformation of the way we work. If I were asked before March of 2020 how long it would take to make the progress in digital and security transformation that we as a society have made in the last 9 months, I would have guessed at least 5 years.