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Operational Resilience: More than Disaster Recovery
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, Americas
To contend with the explosion of cybercrime and its impact on business operations, many organizations are updating their disaster recovery plans to include cyber incident response. Many of the processes and guidelines in traditional disaster recovery plans have changed little in years, sometimes even in over a decade—making them ill-suited…
Organizations Prioritize ITDR Solutions That Protect Active Directory Before, During, and After a Cyberattack
- Itay Nachum
The word is out that identity systems—and Active Directory in particular—are prime targets for cyberattacks. As a company that pioneered solutions purpose-built for protecting and recovering Active Directory from cyberattacks, we were happy to see multiple research firms recently confirm the criticality of AD-specific cybersecurity solutions. Gartner not only named…
Achieving Operational Resilience with Simon Hodgkinson
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, Americas
Does your cybersecurity plan take your organization's goals for operational resilience into account? In a recent episode of the Hybrid Identity Podcast (HIP), I spoke with Semperis strategic advisor, former bp CISO, and HIP London panel speaker Simon Hodgkinson. Simon is an expert in operational resilience and how it relates…
Revisiting the Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack, One Year Later
- Semperis Team
The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack in May 2021 ranks as one of the top critical infrastructure attacks to date. At the time, Semperis Director of Services Sean Deuby predicted that the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) attack was an “implication of what is to come … open season on infrastructure providers.” One year later,…
Why 86% of Organizations Are Increasing Their Investment in Active Directory Security
- Michele Crockett
New EMA Research Highlights the Rise of Active Directory Exploits Active Directory is getting a lot of buzz in business and tech news outlets lately—but not in a good way. AD continues to be a prime target for cybercriminals: Just a few recent examples include AD-related attacks on Sinclair Broadcast…
Now’s the Time to Rethink Active Directory Security
- Guido Grillenmeier | Principal Technologist, EMEA
Note: This article was first published in the July 2021 issue of the monthly newsletter Network Security, and appears here with the permission of the publisher. Winding back the clock 21 years to the turn of the millennium would be astrange experience, given the world we live in today. Even…
Leading CISOs Discuss Shifting Priorities Amidst Increased Security Threats
- Semperis Team
What keeps CISOs up at night? And where should CISOs focus to bring value to the business? How should priorities shift given the proliferation of cyberattacks that threaten to disrupt businesses worldwide? To help cut through some of the noise, we partnered with Redmond Magazine to convene leading CISOs in a discussion…
The Stakes Are Higher in Healthcare: Fighting Cybercrime During a Pandemic
- Gil Kirkpatrick
In the healthcare industry, cybersecurity issues have consequences that go well beyond the loss of data. Recently, the FBI and other federal agencies warned of a credible threat of "increased and imminent cybercrime" to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers. Criminal groups target the healthcare sector to carry out "data theft…
