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Cybersecurity Best Practices for Business Resilience Series

According to a recent Gartner research, organisational resilience continues to mark its importance. It remains an imperative for cybersecurity leaders to anticipate and adapt as the world moves focus from efficiency to resiliency. What are the priorities for businesses to stay resilient in the face of known & unknown...

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4 Steps to Prove the Value of Your Vulnerability Management Program

It is estimated that 60% of security professionals believe they are underfunded to carry out their work. This may arise from the fact that most cybersecurity teams are understaffed & underbudgeted, within the organisations. Building and delivering the contextualised information for leaders who assess the value of a...

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Financial Services Industry -How the Rapid7 Insight Cloud Can Help

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) responded to 2,266 cyber security incidents at a rate of almost six per day from July 2019 to June 2020. These attacks not only disrupt the businesses but translate to costing the economy up to $29 billion per year which is 1.9% of Australia’s gross domestic product (GDP)....

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Legal Industry - Transforming your Practice Securely with Cloud Security

The Australian Cyber Security Centre's (ACSC) inaugural cyber threat shows it responded to 2,266 cyber security incidents in 2019-20. Operating in a world, where pandemic has affected everything is challenging. This is especially true for industries like legal services where there is wealth of confidential data. ...

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The Four Pillars of Modern Vulnerability Management

The older vision of vulnerability management of addressing vulnerabilities in silos is too inefficient and expensive for today’s enterprise. IT and security groups of today must monitor a much larger attack surface. Infrastructures and applications can change on a daily, even hourly basis. As cybercriminals are...

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Technology Industry - How Rapid7 Insight Cloud Helps Technology Organisations

Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report found that technology sector is particularly susceptible to both internal (56%) and external (44%) threats; with financial motives (67%) and industrial espionage (29%) being the major drivers. The technology industry is also particularly vulnerable to DDoS attacks....

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Manufacturing Industry I How Rapid7 Insight Cloud Helps Your Organisation

Manufacturing industry is a valuable target for cyber criminals as it has a plethora of data related to customer private data, financial information, intellectual property etc. The Australian manufacturing sector has seen nearly a threefold increase in the numbers of cyberattacks since the start of COVID-19. Read...

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The Application Security Testing Imperative

The central role of applications is such that they represent business-critical infrastructure and thus a prominent feature of every company’s attack surface. For organizations that build and deploy internally developed applications, the accelerated rate of innovation has challenged cybersecurity objectives,...

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A Modern Approach to Developer AppSec Awareness and Training

Security is increasingly becoming integrated and automated into software development initiatives, and application security (AppSec) specialists often work closely within cross-functional software development teams to improve the security that software organizations create. However, there is still confusion about...

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Software Composition Analysis The Ultimate Guide to SCA

To detect potentially exploitable security vulnerabilities, organizations that create software tend to use solutions such as static, dynamic, and interactive application security testing (AST), to scan their custom and compiled code. While such solutions are effective at what they are designed for (scanning...

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Driving Immediate Value with a Cloud SIEM

Gartner predicts that in less than 5 years, 80% of SIEM solutions will have capabilities that are only delivered via the cloud—up from 20% previously. Detection and response is a critical piece in an ongoing journey to improve your security posture. As the threat landscape grows increasingly complex, an effective...

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5 Reasons to Prioritize Software Security

The pace of digital transformation has reached a speed never before seen, forcing organizations into an “adapt or die” situation. Software is at the center of it all, placing increased pressure on DevOps leaders, AppSec managers, and developers to develop and deploy software faster to keep their organizations...

Securing Dynamic Cloud Environments

Cloud computing has transformed how we consume and deploy IT solutions. Compute power is rapidly evolving to a utility model, with shared infrastructure at its core. This shared infrastructure underpinning the cloud revolution has also driven a fundamental shift in how we design and deploy technology within the data...

Adaptive Cloud Security

Today’s organizations rely heavily on cloud applications in order to be at the forefront of digital innovations, and to keep their users connected and their businesses thriving. Cloud innovations help keep organizations competitive in the ever-changing and demanding digital marketplace, with new applications and...

Dynamic Cloud Security Provides Seamless, Flexible Protection

As much as public cloud use is growing, both in total volume and in diversification of services, it is not a one-way trend. To meet evolving business needs, organizations are moving applications and workloads back and forth between cloud and on-premises environments.