Choose Privacy Week, first observed by the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) in 2010, is an initiative that invites the public to have a conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. The campaign gives the public the tools they need to educate and engage , and gives them resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy.

When an organization has a highly remote workforce or shifts its operations to remote working, even temporarily, they could be opening their network to many risks. One way to mitigate them is by implementing UEBA software. UEBA stands for User and Event Behavior Analytics or User and Entity Behavior Analytics, depending on who you ask.

Emergencies such as natural disasters or pandemics force organizations to take measures for establishing work-from-home procedures. One of the first security measures organizations must implement for remote work is multi-factor authentication (MFA). Multi-factor authentication is a method to protect access to corporate networks and business-critical systems, both on-premises and remotely. It requires an employee or a partner to provide at least two authentication factors to confirm his or her identity and login credentials.

In part one of our Remote Workforce Roundtable, we spoke to the larger cybersecurity trends at hand with remote working and security vulnerabilities. This time I sat down with Greg Foss from VMware Carbon Black for a more endpoint-focused discussion on remote work.

In this new remote workforce world we now find ourselves in, the threat landscape has shifted once more. For many organizations this if the first time that they find their workers outside the comfort of the office and its security safeguards and thrust into the unknown of the home office life. This shift opens new areas of vulnerability to organizations that they have not had to face before. The change to a remote workforce is stretching security professionals and requires that they are able to maintain the same level of protection remotely that they had previously been providing within the office environment for their users.

Datashield Partner Digest for the Week of May 4th, 2020 - Highlights: Changes in the MSS landscape according to Gartner plus integrated risk management solutions via RSA Archer.

By Nick Sandin, Security Analyst and contributing author Brandon Doty, SOC Manager Dealing with credential harvesters has its perks. Day in and day out I get to personally observe how sophisticated a phishing website can be. Some websites are so elaborate that only a trained analyst can identify them, while others are so obvious no one in their right mind would fall for it. Either way, if it looks suspicious just follow the “POST”.

Datashield Partner Digest for the Week of April 27th, 2020 - Highlights: VMware Carbon Black report that Ransomware attacks are up and newly discovered security threat with Zoom.

I recently interviewed leaders from a few of our partners and our Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Jeff Marshall, to talk about the recent COVID-19 quarantine and impact to a newly expanded remote workforce.

Today, a Security Operations Center (SOC) is the heart of many industry-leading organizations’ security infrastructures. While many organizations seek to stay ahead of the curve and take ownership of building a SOC from the ground up, it just isn’t cost effective.