The holiday shopping season is well underway and it’s often one of the busiest for retailers, eCommerce companies, and others who seek to use the holiday as an opportunity to offer discounted prices on their most popular products. Online shopping reached $8.9B on Black Friday and $10.7B on Cyber Monday and Google estimates that, on […]
Much to the chagrin of security professionals, cybersecurity best practices are often seen as a nuisance by employees outside of the security and IT teams. The consensus is that security slows down processes, and limits autonomy and training is one more thing to check off the list. But employees are ultimately your biggest vulnerability, so […]
Managing cybersecurity vendors wasn’t the daunting task it is these days. Not too long ago, organizations were bound by a perimeter, and it was simpler to piece together a set of capabilities to stay safe and secure. Businesses of all sizes followed a surefire formula that kept most of them safe. With the introduction of […]
Endpoint security looks quite a bit different than it did several years ago. Organizations these days are much more disparate and disconnected. In many ways, the perimeter has dissolved and organizations have less control over what aspects of their environment they can secure. This results in endpoints becoming the most important element for an organization’s […]
In a recent Right Hand Security, Front Lines event, SolCyber Chief Technology Officer David Emerson interviewed cybersecurity expert and friend of SolCyber, Scot Hutton, on how cyber leaders can more effectively communicate with boards to make positive changes that will increase a company’s security posture. Below are key takeaways from their conversation. You can also […]
Ransomware is quickly becoming the number one threat for nearly all organizations. Over the last few years, ransomware attacks have skyrocketed with COVID fueling the number of incidents levied on various organizations. In 2020, ransomware attacks rose 485% and payouts also hit a record high, reaching an average of $312,000 in 2020. This trend isn’t […]
For those of you who are just joining us, I’m retired Marine and security expert Scot Hutton and I’ve been invited by my friends at SolCyber to write a blog series on security that matters. So far, I’ve covered why ransomware has forever changed the security landscape for small and mid-sized businesses (SMEs) and explained […]
‘Hi Scott, nice talking with you. We’ve got AV, some firewalls and spam filters for email…isn’t that enough? I think we are pretty secure” This is probably the most consistent interaction I have with customers in the mid-market. But what is ‘enough’ security? It’s a question I get asked almost every day because it’s becoming […]
Today’s threat landscape is advancing dramatically, putting more and more businesses at risk. And as new threats and vulnerabilities emerge, new cybersecurity products hit the market claiming to protect against them. Though this might sound like a positive thing, the reality is a bit more complicated. The cybersecurity space is already extremely saturated with more […]
Up until recently, it was thought that companies only needed a detailed security program if they were handling sensitive data. If you weren’t collecting customers’ credit card information, data related to their personal health or wealth, or other private data, you were likely safe from the most persistent cyberattacks, specifically ransomware attacks. With ransomware, an […]
Interview with Nakia Matthews, SolCyber’s Director of Global Security Operations Nakia Matthews is SolCyber’s Manager of Global Security Operations, who transitioned from a career in media, marketing, and communications to security engineering. We spoke to Nakia to get an understanding of how someone can make a mid-career shift into cybersecurity, the lessons she’s learned, and […]
Nothing is more enjoyable than standing on the side of a helicopter while flying fast and aggressively. To this day, the work I accomplished during my time in the Marines is some of the most rewarding in my career. It takes discipline and calculated risk to jump into a helicopter whirling around thousands of parts […]
Read the ForgePoint Capital story explaining their journey from bringing SolCyber from incubation to a $20 million Series A round. https://medium.com/forgepoint/solcyber-building-the-modern-mssp-from-incubation-to-investment-88f5bcb703fc
Why you need the minimum effective dose of security When it comes to cybersecurity, companies large and small are up against the same adversaries. While the most advanced hackers would once target only large companies, hackers have started to use the same advanced techniques as part of larger campaigns. In many cases, attacks on SMBs […]
Why SMBs need to think like a major corporation when it comes to cybersecurity Cybercrime is the fastest growing criminal activity in the U.S. and it’s predicted to cause damages totaling $6 trillion USD globally in 2021. This growing trend was only exacerbated by the 2020 pandemic where more people were working remotely and taking […]
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