In the realm of cybersecurity and data protection, PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) plays a pivotal role in ensuring the secure handling of payment card transactions. As organizations strive to maintain PCI DSS compliance, they seek individuals with a deep understanding of its principles...

In today's complex business environment, it is essential for organizations to establish robust processes to manage their Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) obligations. The term GRC is widely used to describe a framework that enables companies to align their strategies, objectives, and operations with reg...

Operational Technology (OT) drives the efficiency and reliability of industrial processes, encompassing a range of components that work harmoniously to control and monitor critical operations. This blog discusses the fundamental components of OT, shedding light on their significance, specific features, and ap...

Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessment are two distinct but related methods used to evaluate the security of IT systems, networks, and applications. While they share some similarities, they have different objectives and approaches. Let us take a closer look at each of them and their differences in t...

Many organizations test their systems to ensure secure business operations with various tools and methods. Bug bounty programs and Penetration testing are some of the best practices considered to find out the vulnerabilities in the system. This blog is curated with the differences between the Bug Bounty progr...

With the rising prevalence of cybercrime, there is a growing need for penetration testing in organizations. This legitimate form of cyberattack allows organizations to proactively assess their network and system security, helping them avoid financial losses, comply with security laws, and address vulnerabilit...

Threat Hunting is a process of digging deep into the networks, servers, and systems to find out malicious activities. If the threat hunting process is weak, then the attacker can remain unidentified in the network for a long time, processing malicious activities like collecting confidential data and accessing...

Data privacy is one of the trendiest topics in the technology industry today. With the humongous amount of personal and sensitive information being stored and shared online, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure that this information is protected. Moreover, with the launch of the EU-GDPR in 2018 and...

Threat Hunting is a proactive method used by Security Analysts for identifying unfamiliar or non-remediate cyber threats in the organization's network. It includes searching iterative methods to identify indicators of compromise, threats such as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), and Hacker tactics, techniqu...

In today's fast-growing IT world, organizations use and produce enormous amounts of data for business operations. Cybersecurity plays a crucial role in securing the organization's data and assets, whereas Data Science plays a significant role in analyzing any kind of data to derive business insights. However,...

Security Controls or cyber security controls are the most important factor used to develop the actions taken to prevent the organization's security risks. IT security controls are parameters implemented to protect the organization's data and assets. In layman's terms, any measure used to identify, miti...

Cybercrimes are increasing rigorously, along with advanced approaches and tricks used to identify vulnerabilities in the system. Even conducting the necessary testing, there can be a chance of undetected vulnerability that remains in the system for a long time. Such vulnerabilities create an attack surface th...

The ever-increasing use of technology in business operations of all sizes and orientations has made information security a critical consideration. In today's digital world, businesses rely heavily on technology and the internet to conduct their operations. The increasing use of technology increases the risk o...

Organizations collect, store, and use a lot of data nowadays for various operations. Data about the workplace, inventory, clients, trade secrets, and financial and communication records can be found in almost every organization. When organizations don't keep this information safe, it can lead to data secu...

In the last few years, there has been an increase in Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors trained to perform MITRE intrusion campaigns aimed at stealing sensitive economic and national security data. Organizations require a method to safeguard systems or networks from APTs and other significant attacks. So...

What exactly is Threat Hunting? Threat hunting is the process of looking for cyber threats that are hiding in the network, datasets, and endpoints without being noticed. To find bad actors, the process involves going deep into the environment. To stop these kinds of attacks, threat hunting is very impo...

In today's IT world, organizations use and produce enormous amounts of data for business operations. Cyber Security plays a key role in securing the organization's data and assets, whereas Cloud computing plays a prominent role in integrating Cloud services to meet business requirements. However, organization...

In this digital world, we share and store our private information, making it more accessible to anyone using the internet. What if this shared information falls into the wrong hands, regardless of what information we exchange? Sometimes we take it lightly. However, today more and more severe cyberattacks are ...

(ISC)² has refreshed the set of objectives for the CISSP certification exam for security professionals to make it relevant with the latest cybersecurity terms, methods, and technologies. This new version of the CISSP certification exam was revised and modified in 2021, and the preparation for the exam will b...

Given today's cyber threat landscape, businesses must have the proper protocols, policies, and processes to keep their data safe, infrastructure strong, and, ultimately, make them resilient. The terms "Red Teamers" and "Blue Teamers" refer to two distinct groups of highly skilled security professionals who us...