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What is a vCISO? Understanding the role of virtual CISO

What is a vCISO, what they do, and why the virtual CISO model is growing fast among companies and cybersecurity consultants.

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12.6.2025

What is a modular cyber security framework and why they are essential for consultants

Modular cyber security frameworks make compliance management easier, and helps consultants scale faster, win more deals, and build recurring revenue.

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12.6.2025

Cyberday app outage on Tuesday 10/6/2025: Explanation and follow-up

This message goes through the details of the recent incident that produced downtime in Cyberday during 10.6.2025, and related early mitigation.

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11.6.2025

Kicking Off a Summer of Innovation at Cyberday

This summer, Cyberday is proud to launch an ambitious and inspiring project centered on deep regulatory research and international collaboration. We’ve welcomed 12 talented information security students, who will work together to simplify compliance.

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10.6.2025

What is CRA? Introduction to Cyber Resilience Act requirements

What is CRA (Cyber Resilience Act)? Learn CRA requirements, who it applies to, and how to prepare for CRA compliance with this complete, practical guide.

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2.6.2025

NIS2 delays, healthcare breaches & improved Trust Center: Cyberday product and news summary 5/2025 🛡️

This is the May news and product review from Cyberday and also a summary of the latest admin webinar. Read about NIS2 delays, recent cyberattacks as well as recent and future development on Cyberday.

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30.5.2025

End of hourly billing: why value-based pricing works for compliance consultants

Hourly billing is fading fast in compliance consulting. Learn why value-based pricing better aligns incentives, boosts earnings, and how compliance consultants can transition effectively.

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26.5.2025

What is an ISMS? A guide to information security management systems

Learn what ISMS is, why it matters, and how to implement an ISMS step-by-step. See how ISO 27001 and NIS2 fit into your information security management system.

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14.5.2025

How Much Can a Phishing Scam Cost a Small Organization? For a Texas School District, the Bill Was $2.3 Million

Phishing scam perpetrated by attackers posing as vendors cheated the school district of approximately $2.3 million before the business compromise scheme was discovered about a month later.

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15.5.2020
Phishing

UN hacked: Attackers got in via SharePoint vulnerability

In summer 2019, hackers broke into over 40 (and possibly more) UN servers in offices in Geneva and Vienna and downloaded “sensitive data that could have far-reaching repercussions for staff, individuals, and organizations communicating with and doing business with the UN,” The New Humanitarian reported on Wednesday. The UN, unfortunately, did not share that discovery with the authorities, the public, or even the potentially affected staff, and we now know about it only because TNH … More → The post UN hacked: Attackers got in via SharePoint vulnerability appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Users still engaging in risky password, authentication practices

IT security practitioners are aware of good habits when it comes to strong authentication and password management, yet often fail to implement them due to poor usability or inconvenience, according to Yubico and Ponemon Institute. The conclusion is that IT security practitioners and individuals are both engaging in risky password and authentication practices, yet expectation and reality are often misaligned when it comes to the implementation of usable and desirable security solutions. The tools and … More → The post Users still engaging in risky password, authentication practices appeared first on Help Net Security.

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15.5.2020
Password Attacks

How to Use NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework to Foster a Culture of Cybersecurity

Faced with increasing volume and sophistication of cyber threats, CISOs and security teams need to find ways to ... Read More The post How to Use NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework to Foster a Culture of Cybersecurity appeared first on Hyperproof. The post How to Use NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework to Foster a Culture of Cybersecurity appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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15.5.2020
Employee Negligence

MAZE Relaunches “Name and Shame” Website, Continues Dumping Data from Reluctant Victims

Sarah Coble reports: A threat group has once again taken to the internet to publish data stolen from alleged victims who...

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

New York state wants to ban government agencies from paying ransomware demands

Another NY Senate bill would create a cyber security enhancement fund and restricting the use of taxpayer moneys in paying ransoms

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

Picks of 2019 malware - the large, the small and the one full of null bytes, (Thu, Jan 16th)

Although less than two days have gone by since the latest release of MSFT patches, I find that it would actually be hard to add anything interesting to them that hasn&#x27t been discussed before, as the most important vulnerabilities (couple of RCEs and an interesting vulnerability in CryptoAPI) seemed to be all anyone talked about for the last 24 hours. If you didn&#x27t hear anything about it, I suggest you take a look at the ISC coverage of the CryptoAPI vulnerability[1] as well as the Patch Tuesday overview[2]. But for the rest of us, I thought today might be a good day to take a short break from this topic and take a look at what the last year brought us instead.

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15.5.2020
Malware

Clop Ransomware Now Kills Windows 10 Apps and 3rd Party Tools

The Clop Ransomware continues to evolve with a new and integrated process killer that targets some interesting processes belonging to Windows 10 apps, text editors, programming IDEs and languages, and office applications. [...]

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15.5.2020
Ransomware

On Authorization and Implementation of Access Control Models

There are dozens of implementations of authorization mechanisms. When there are complex requirements dictated by business processes, authorization mechanisms may often be implemented incorrectly or, at least, not optimally. The reason for that, in my opinion, is the low attention of both the customer and developers to this aspect in the initial stages of the […]… Read More The post On Authorization and Implementation of Access Control Models appeared first on The State of Security.

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15.5.2020
Outdated Access Rights