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February 15, 2023
Preparing for Your 'Big Game' with a Cyber Range
Originally published at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/preparing-your-big-game-cyber-range-jordan-wigley/
February 7, 2023
5 Steps to SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure and Transparency
With the rapidly increasing number of cyber threats, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released new guidelines to help public companies protect their data and investors. The new guidelines would require public companies to file periodic disclosures about their cybersecurity practices and notify the SEC within 96 hours of a material breach. Let's look at how these regulations can help protect companies from cybercrime.
February 1, 2023
5 Ways Elite Cybersecurity Training Drives the Bottomline
Cybersecurity threats are rising, costing businesses billions of dollars annually. With the proper cybersecurity training, CEOs can protect their stock prices from dropping and lower the operational impacts and costs of cyber breaches. Cybersecurity training helps CEOs safeguard their business information and maintain trust in their brands. Investing in training to have a skilled cyber workforce seems obvious. The ROI is simple to quantify based on the average cost of $4.35 million for cyber breaches based on the joint report from IBM and Ponemon Group.
January 9, 2023
Cyber Security Predictions for 2023
Every year, we can point to events, breaches, and trends that will drive actions and behaviors in the cybersecurity space for the following year. As I look at 2022, several events and trends stand out to me that will have a material effect on security practice in 2023.
November 8, 2022
Xtreme Solutions Stays Competitive Using Cyber Range
The challenges of building and maintaining its home-grown cyber range were putting Xtreme Solutions at a competitive disadvantage. And although their solution worked, the time, money, and energy needed to keep their range operational were holding back their business – especially as they began to expand their suite of cybersecurity solutions. We recently sat down with their director of cybersecurity to get an insider's perspective on why they chose the SimSpace cyber range to meet their challenges.
October 20, 2022
Threat Alert – Emotet: A Dangerous Real-World Example of an Advanced Persistent Threat
Identified initially in 2014, Emotet malware has persisted in disrupting many industries. This resilient malware program delivers different malicious payloads to unsuspecting users. It has continued to push our cybersecurity posture, hunting capabilities, and response mechanisms to (hopefully) new limits in all sectors. First introduced as a banking trojan (disguised as something innocuous), Emotet has exhibited rapid growth, agility, and resilience. In fact, Emotet has continually evolved and honed its nefarious capabilities to become a MaaS (Malware-as-a-Service) offering in 2017.
October 6, 2022
ACSC-SimSpace Cyber Range Program: Live Fire Red Team
Collaborative Defense Collaborative Defense is a core principle for the Advanced Cyber Security Center (ACSC) and the Cyber Range program puts front line cyber defenders, our Blue Teamers, up against a live adversary – the SimSpace Red Team.
October 4, 2022
The Importance of Privileged Access Management
Recently, I received a call from a former colleague. They were concerned about some odd alerts they repeatedly saw across the enterprise. These alerts suggested that an outside actor may have obtained a service account credential in hopes of gaining access to other accounts. They were having issues hunting down the offending origin of the account authentication requests due to some gaps in their auditing capabilities and asked for my view. I’m not sure how others spend their Saturdays, but this challenge is right up my alley!
September 16, 2022
How User Emulation Brings Cybersecurity Training to Life
When it comes to preparing your organization to defend against advanced cyber threats, there’s no substitute for hands-on experience. But how can your team gain familiarity with real-world cyberattacks without putting your company’s digital assets in jeopardy?
August 30, 2022
SimSpace Operator Awarded Coveted Black Badge at DEF CON 30
Every August, about 25,000 programmers descend upon Las Vegas to attend DEF CON, one of the world’s most well-known hacking conventions. Apart from building relationships with industry peers and putting their skills to the test, virtually everyone in attendance has one goal in mind — winning the Black Badge.
August 9, 2022
The SimSpace Partner Network Program - Partner with Confidence
The increasing prevalence of cybercrime and the ingenuity of these threat actors is something your clients cannot handle alone. There is no single person or company who knows everything and turning a blind eye to this bitter truth is an exercise in futility. According to a recent report by PWC1, nearly half of all businesses are being hit by economic crime, with cybercrime being the gravest threat.
August 8, 2022
Launch of SkillWise at Black Hat USA
This week at Black Hat USA in not-hot-at-all Las Vegas, Nevada, SimSpace unveiled the SkillWise training and readiness solution. Powered by the SimSpace cyber range platform, SkillWise provides realistic individual and team training environments, hands-on team experiences, advanced training content, detailed threat intelligence, and more. Essentially, it delivers everything cybersecurity leaders need to develop their teams.
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