TAP Into Technology Blog: Hacks and Breaches
MSP Hacks like REvil Highlight Need for Secure Visibility
For some companies, managed services providers (MSPs) can be a godsend—a force multiplier that allows them to support more customers and more employees without the effort and expense of expanding their IT department. MSPs are vendors with...
Colonial Pipeline Hack Sounds Alarm for Greater OT Security
It’s been less than a week since Colonial Pipeline, the Georgia-based operator of a petroleum product pipeline network that runs across 13 states from Texas to New Jersey, revealed that it had been hit with a ransomware attack. The attack...
Providing Real-time Visibility to Prevent the Next Water Treatment Plant Hack
It was alarming to learn in December that multiple U.S. government agencies had experienced severe data breaches as a result of cyberattacks. But for those of us who weren’t directly involved in the matter, the alarm was somewhat abstract...
How to Defend Against DDoS Attacks and Network Downtime
Somedays, it feels like the whole internet is slowing down, or like the critical applications you use on a day-to-day basis aren’t responding. Sometimes, that feeling isn’t just you (or the result of your slow computer). Instead, it’s the...
7 Threat Hunting Best Practices to Keep Your Network Secure
Threat hunting is one of the few IT terms I've come across that probably sounds cool to people who aren't engineers. But cyber threat hunting is more than just an industry buzzword—or an edgy-sounding skill to add to your resume. It's also...
How Historical Look-back is Revolutionizing Network Forensics and Inline Deployment
As you can imagine, cyberattacks are now increasing year over year from a combination of cybercriminals, hackers, malicious insiders, unwitting insiders, nation-state attackers and hacktivists. Their attack methods include social...