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Cybersecurity preparedness is one of the major obstacles facing businesses today. Despite the increased focus on making companies cybersafe, there are several common cybersecurity misconceptions that still pervade the business world.

Varonis has been singled out by Forrester as one of “the 13 providers who matter most” of data security vendors in their Forrester Wave™: Data Security Portfolio Vendors, Q2 2019.

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to crash a web server or online system by overwhelming it with data. DDoS attacks can be simple mischief, revenge, or hacktivism, and can range from a minor annoyance to long-term downtime resulting in loss of business.

Any security practitioner that has had to perform forensic analysis on a cybersecurity incident likely describes the process as “searching for a needle in a stack of needles.” Even Tony Stark’s magnet isn’t going to help. Anyone who has used a SIEM or any other monitoring system to figure out how gigabytes of data was stolen knows how difficult that task can be.

America’s literacy rate is 86% (which is not the best), but the data breach literacy is even worse. The majority of Americans don’t know what to do if they are affected by a breach. Even worse, most have never checked to see if their data was compromised during one of the many major data breaches in recent years.

Privacy is top of mind for many people these days. Unclear privacy policies, rampant data collection and high-profile data breaches can lead us to second guess our information’s safety — even when it’s guarded by respected institutions. In fact, Americans reportedly trust credit card companies more than the federal government to protect their personal information. To combat this uncertainty, security experts commonly recommend using virtual private networks (VPNs) and secure browsers to keep your browsing history and personal information off the grid. The reality, however, is that these solutions can’t completely keep your activity private and safe.

There are days where you need to move objects in a domain or forest to somewhere else, and those days require the Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT). Hopefully, any moves that you make are pre-planned and approved by change management. In reality, sometimes sysadmins have to make emergency Active Directory (AD) migrations for catastrophic hardware failures or as a part of an Incident Response plan. It’s best to know how to use ADMT before you need to make changes, so read on for all of the details.

Explaining how cybersecurity affects an entire organization can be complex. The field is filled with jargon and buzzwords that can hinder understanding for those outside of IT. What’s more, everyone in an organization views cybersecurity through a different lens, depending on what their role in the company is.

While Wi-Fi offers the convenience of a seamless, untethered data connection, it comes with security disadvantages that hackers love to exploit. Without knowing the tricks hackers use to target Wi-Fi devices, it’s hard for users to know which habits may be putting them most at risk.

At the Inside Out Security blog, we’re always preaching the importance of risk assessments. IT and the C-levels need to evaluate vulnerabilities in their corporate systems to determine risk factors. Some of our favorite examples of cyber risk factors are sensitive data that has global access, stale data that’s no longer needed, and overly generous file permission.

Like a wardrobe malfunction during a live broadcast, no one wants to be overexposed – especially when it comes to your data.

The period following a data breach is not an easy one for companies. Lots of time and money are spent to effectively manage a crisis, with even more time and money spent on the aftermath. These expenses include members of the IT and security teams upgrading their security solutions; management and HR conducting security training for employees; and the crisis communications team talking to customers, stakeholders, and the general public to earn back trust. The way a company manages a data breach directly impacts its reputation after the dust settles.