Resource Category: Insights

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Towerwall Supports Women and Minority Students with Donation to Lauro Garner Cybersecurity Scholarship

Michelle Drolet

This holiday season, we are proud to announce we have made a donation to a new scholarship fund aimed at supporting young women and minority students to pursue rewarding careers in cybersecurity. Long-time colleague and client, United States Air Force Veteran, Saeed Garner, Director of Information Security for Christian Care Ministry, founded the newly established

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Urgent Vulnerability Notice: Log4Shell

Michelle Drolet

What You Need to Know: Security teams are in a hurry to patch an unknown active vulnerability that was found in Apache’s Log4j and is now named Log4Shell. Log4j is a Java-based open-source library used by apps and services, and the newly found vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise millions of devices across the

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Pentesting vs. threat hunting: What’s the difference?

Michelle Drolet

Traditional cybersecurity practices relied on the age-old maxim, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. But here’s the biggest truth about modern cybersecurity: There’s no such thing as foolproof security, and bug-free software is an oxymoron. From the ’90’s script kiddies to present-day state-sponsored actors and cybercrime syndicates, attacks have grown

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6 Steps for Third-Party Cyber Risk Management

Michelle Drolet

If you have third-party partners, you need a third-party cyber risk management program. Here are six key steps to follow. Many organizations transact with hundreds of third-party partners, according to EY’s Global Third-Party Risk Management Survey 2019-2020, a trend that PwC finds shows no sign of slowing, even as the risks increase. A recent survey by security vendor Anchore found that in

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Towerwall Cybersecurity Services Now Available on AWS Marketplace

Michelle Drolet

BOSTON – August 31, 2021 – Towerwall, a 25-year provider of cybersecurity services for emerging to mid-size enterprises, today announced it has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to list its array of data and IT security services and onsite deployment of Virtual Security Officers on the AWS Marketplace. Towerwall is one of the

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Key Initiatives CISOs Should Prioritize Post-Pandemic

Michelle Drolet

According to Ponemon, 67% of respondents to a CISO survey believe hackers and cybercriminals are more likely to target their companies. In this regard, the role CISOs play in modern organizations has grown more critical, as they’re tasked with managing enterprise risk, securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices and deploying security analytics. To maximize the security of

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6 Steps To Take Before Buying Cybersecurity Insurance

#Cybersecurity Insurance

Michelle Drolet

The landscape of cybersecurity insurance is shifting in the wake of a wave of high-profile ransomware attacks. Over the last five years, the U.S. has suffered more than 4,000 ransomware attacks a day, according to a U.S. government interagency report. It’s a pandemic unto itself: Ransomware attacks happen once every eight minutes. This trend has driven greater

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Attention SMBs: Be Proactive in Outsourcing your Cybersecurity Needs

#Managed Detection & Response

Michelle Drolet

For small to mid-size businesses (SMBs), knowing what you need to remain secure and setting a resilient plan in place is half the battle. With the average cost of a security breach nearing $4 million, organizations need to detect threats early. Threat monitoring, detection and response (MDR) services offer businesses a turnkey security response. Combined

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Phishing is the worst thing for your business. Just ask Colonial Pipeline.

Michelle Drolet

For Georgia, Virgina, the Carolinas and other states, it was Jimmy Carter revisited as long lines and price spikes awaited motorists at the gas pumps. Some stations as far south as St. Petersburg, Fla. ran out entirely, worrying travelers making plans for Memorial Day weekend. We learned a few things from the Colonial Pipeline ransomware

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Webinar: Preventing the Big One: Staying Ahead of the Breach

Michelle Drolet

Over 37 billion records were exposed in breach events in 2020 – by far the most records exposed in a single year, according to a recent report by Risk Based Security. How has remote working impacted your organization’s security posture? What lessons can security professionals learn from the recent wave of breaches and what steps

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