However, sometimes the answer to this question cannot be so clear-cut. Much depends on how valuable the information being held for ransom is for the organization and on how much downtime an organization can afford.

Like antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria give nightmares to medical epidemiologists, modular malware systems are doing the same to cyber defenders. New variations of modular malware are appearing weekly, if not daily. They are designed to target Linux and Windows Servers. Xbash, AdvisorsBot, and Marap are a few examples of a modular malware that doubled in […]

One of today’s most widespread cybersecurity principles seems prudent on the surface but has made the enterprise cyber program a bloated, lumbering beast of burden. Defense in depth is simple to intuit; it is as obvious as two heads are better than one. Reality demands, however, that the enterprise optimize. How many are too many? […]