3 Tools that will Bolster your Organization’s Cybersecurity Joseph Minetto
With the majority of the current workforce working from home these days, there has been a rise in cyberattacks. While working from home, employees are constantly connecting digitally, thus increasing the attack surface. Bitdefender’s Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report 2020 found there was a “seven-fold year-on-year increase in ransomware reports.” Furthermore, it reported that “a defining characteristic of the first half of 2020 in terms of threats and malware is that they all played on the same theme: the pandemic. A spike in scams, phishing and malware across all platforms and attack vectors seems to have been a direct result of cybercriminals leveraging issues related to Covid-19 to exploit fear and misinformation,” further confirming the rising cyber risks.
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A successful cyberattack damages the reputation of the organization brings down customer trust in its products and services and incurs more losses due to legal liabilities. There are many cybersecurity products in the market, and any organization uses a combination of them to create and maintain their cybersecurity posture. The goal is to use effective cybersecurity tools to create hardened defenses.
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OSSEC OSSEC is a free and open-source yet powerful host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS). It assists in detecting intrusions in live systems, i.e., it is part of the cybersecurity posture that helps to detect, block, and filter intruders, unlike the below tools that help to assess and test the security posture. Its list of features includes alerting, checking file integrity, monitoring registry and/or system configuration, performing log analysis, and auto-responding to intruders by blocking or filtering them automatically per the defined rules. That is why OSSEC has become a standard part of any cybersecurity toolkit.
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OpenVAS OpenVAS is a free and open-source, comprehensive vulnerability scanner that finds loopholes in the security posture of organizations. It comes accompanied by a vulnerability tests feed named the Greenbone Community Feed, which includes more than 50,000 vulnerability tests for zero cost. OpenVAS is capable of performing a wide range of vulnerability tests from authenticated and unauthenticated testing to testing low- and/or highlevel Internet and industry protocols. It also tunes the performance of large-scale tests and avails its own programming language for adding new tests. 5
Cymulate Cymulate is one of the leading breach and attack simulation platforms. It is a SaaS-based cybersecurity platform that features one-click threat protection for organizations. With the mission to “empower organizations worldwide and make advanced cyber security as simple and familiar as sending an e-mail,� Cymulate simplifies the process of assessing and optimizing the security posture. Cymulate assists in testing and validating an organization’s security controls by simulating potential cyberattacks on its security posture. Its goal is to expose available security gaps (configuration errors or vulnerabilities) and suggest potential mitigation plans to close those gaps before hackers find them. 6
Thank You! Joseph Minetto