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Rolling the Dice on Cybersecurity: Lessons from the MGM Breach

Posted by Jake McGreevy on Oct 18, 2023 11:17:58 AM

You may have seen it in the news, but another major company has been a victim of a nasty ransomware attack that disrupted services and customers for over ten days. This time, the victim was MGM Resorts in Las Vegas.

What separates this major incident from others is that the hackers pulled the malicious attack off using one of the oldest tricks in the book: social engineering. So, what happened, and what can we learn from this?

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Network Security, Data Breach, Data Security, security incident handling, risk, Ransomware, social engineering

Cybersecurity is a Team Sport: Peter Drucker on Cyber Attacks

Posted by Aaron R. Warner on Oct 11, 2021 10:48:44 AM

When Peter Drucker produced his seminal work, “What Makes an Effective Executive,” in the Harvard Business Review (Drucker, June, 2004), he may not have been writing with cybersecurity in mind. In fact, in 2004, the cybersecurity world had only begun to appear as the many-headed beast it’s become since then. Nonetheless, this text is an excellent guide for executives about incident response and breach management.

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Topics: Cybersecurity, budgeting, security incident handling

Ransomware Prevention: DEF CON 29 Takeaways

Posted by ProCircular Team on Sep 23, 2021 10:59:22 AM

Ransomware Prevention: DEF CON 29 Takeaways

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Topics: Information Security, Incident Rsponse, security incident handling, security incident response, DEF CON

Investigating and Responding to Ryuk Cyberattack in 2020

Posted by ProCircular Team on Nov 18, 2020 10:30:00 AM

Incident Response is a series of investigative and remedial steps that a company takes in the event of a breach or other security incident. These restoration efforts can include backtracking through log data, isolating affected machines, and even negotiating with cyberterrorists!

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Incident Response, security incident handling, security incident response

What is a SIEM Engineer?

Posted by ProCircular Team on Oct 15, 2020 10:03:08 AM

In 1974, the great Mohammed Ali said of his opponent, George Foreman, “His hands can’t hit what his eyes can’t see.” The same principle rings true in the cybersecurity world; we can't stop an attack until we know it is happening. That is why SIEM experts, like ProCircular’s Josh Resch, dedicate themselves to monitoring our clients’ networks for suspicious activity. Although each SIEM product works a little differently, they are all designed to help identify and track early signs of malicious activity on your network. A well-maintained SIEM can drastically reduce recovery time from a security incident by showing exactly where the attacker has been.

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Topics: Cybersecurity, Network Security, security incident handling, SIEM, Monitoring

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