The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) recently held its Cloud Threats and Vulnerabilities Summit, featuring prominent speakers across 20 sessions and panels. Speakers highlighted the main systemic risks within the cloud ecosystem and provided recommendations on how to best defend against malicious actors. DayBlink Consulting’s Cybersecurity Group gathered the following key takeaways and their implications for […]
Read MoreAs a result of Covid, a rapid organizational shift to a new way of working is well underway, and almost three years into this transformation, companies are still wrestling with the transition to a hybrid work environment. As we continue to learn more about the impacts of these recent organizational changes, leaders are now focused […]
IT Asset Management is often the un-owned, unwanted, and un-optimized major initiative that large technology organizations continue to struggle with — especially in a modern ecosystem of hybrid infrastructure, legacy systems, microservices, and DevOps teams. Is this simply a commonly ignored housekeeping exercise or is it a signal of a huge cybersecurity risk? The latest […]
The U.S. Department of Treasury recently released “The Financial Service’s Sector’s Adoption of Cloud Services” (“Cloud Report”), outlining key issues facing the U.S. financial services industry as it adopts cloud services. Forty-eight organizations, including global banks, participated in the “open discussion without attribution focused on the current and future state of cloud adoption, viewpoints on […]
As 2023 approaches, it is time to look into our crystal ball for trends that will define cybersecurity over the next year. With many CEOs expecting possible economic downturn in the next 12 months, it’s impossible to not consider the larger macro environment when making these predictions. While recessions typically lead to cost-cutting across companies, […]
As 2023 approaches, it is time to look into our crystal ball for trends that will define cybersecurity over the next year. With many CEOs expecting possible economic downturn in the next 12 months, it’s impossible to not consider the larger macro environment when making these predictions. While recessions typically lead to cost-cutting across companies, […]
DEFCON is an experience that covers a breadth of security topics from Lock Picking to International Cyber Policy and Security. After spending a jam-packed weekend in Las Vegas, the DayBlink Consulting Cybersecurity Group gathered key takeaways with security practitioners and IT executives in mind. Read more here: Zachary White on Medium About the Authors Zachary […]
Given the vast amount of data the United States maintains, the federal government has a unique responsibility to secure its own IT infrastructure to minimize the potential harm from a cyber intrusion. With persistent and inventive threats from bad actors in mind, the Biden Administration announced it is moving toward a Federal Zero Trust Architecture […]
In Q4 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a briefing that detailed the concept of Zero Day attacks and their recent impact on the Healthcare and Public Health sector (HPH). As one of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors designated by Presidential Policy Directive 21, implementing advanced detection and protection tactics to […]
Most sophisticated cybersecurity organizations have embraced technical controls as a management mechanism. Some organizations have even begun mandating their adoption. Forced technical controls, if integrated appropriately into the culture, can dramatically increase cyber defense capabilities as well as combat employees’ inherent resistance to change. While proactively initiating change may seem counterintuitive to creating a strong […]