Crisis averted: A recap of the OpenSSH and XZ/liblzma incident

Apr 18, 2024 | Articles, Articles, Articles, Articles

A novel backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)  was recently discovered from a widely used xz-utils ‘liblzma’ data compression library build system. This backdoor reportedly targets the OpenSSH server but has the potential to target any application that integrates with...

3 Tips on Securing Your OT Environment in the Age of Digital Transformation

Apr 18, 2024 | Uncategorized

Operational Technology (OT) and manufacturing businesses are prime targets for cybercriminals. Why? Because OT security is lacking behind the IT sector, such as banking and retail.  For example, ransomware attacks on OT systems are on the rise with twice as many...

A Tale of the Three *ishings: Part 1 – What is Phishing?

Apr 11, 2024 | Articles

Phishing has been and will continue to be one of the primary attack methods used by cyber attackers today. For the past twenty years, those of us in the cybersecurity industry have focused on how to use technology to secure technology, and we are getting pretty good...

Business Intelligence and Log management – Opportunities and challenges

Apr 11, 2024 | Uncategorized

Business intelligence (BI) is all about making sense of huge amounts of data to extract meaningful and actionable insights out of it. Log management tools such as Graylog, instead, are the perfect solution to streamline data collection and analysis, so it’s easy to...

Data replication: What is it and what are the advantages of using it?

Apr 11, 2024 | Uncategorized

Data replication has moved from “nice to have” to “mainstream” for use cases such as High Availability and Disaster Recovery. At the same time, companies are discovering the need to replicate or move data for other reasons, including performance and translating...