In nearly 90% of the incidents managed by Wavestone CERT [1], the Active Directory domain was compromised: rapid rebuilding capabilities are no longer an option. However, the backup and recovery of Active Directory environments is a subject that has long…
Preparing for crisis management is now necessary for most companies and large organizations. Conscious of the risk or driven by regulations (the DORA regulation is a good example), crisis exercises and simulations have become an unmissable annual event. Even if…
How to ensure the security of your applications despite outsourcing their development? Integrating security into projects is an important process for companies to define and integrate security aspects into products as early as possible. This avoids increasing the cost…
Who would have known that locking your employees in a room for 15 minutes could become their new favorite way to learn about cybersecurity? In a never-ending quest to find innovative ways to raise awareness on cybersecurity topics, the Wavestone team…
Once again, the CERT-W 2022 report confirms that the main motivation of attackers continues to be financial gain and ransomware remains the most common means of extortion. Ransomware attacks are among the most severe cyberattacks in terms of their impact on…
The encryption of data in transit and at rest now makes it possible to ensure a good level of security. For data being processed, a solution is now emerging confidential computing. I had the opportunity to organize a round table…
Dashboards are an essential tool for CISOs to measure and control risks in their scope, to steer their projects and to inform their management of the company’s cyber health evolution. However, according to Wavestone’s Cyber benchmark results from 2022, 47%…
Introduced just over 10 years ago by Forrester, Zero Trust is a security philosophy that starts from the premise that the cyber threat is omnipresent, both outside and inside the IS, and consequently proposes an access management strategy based on…
During protests in Philadelphia towards the end of May 2020, two police vehicles were set on fire. Photos of the event posted on Instagram and cross-referencing of aliases, visible on Etsy, Poshmark and LinkedIn, will lead[1] an FBI investigator to…
The increase in cyberattacks witnessed over the last few years can be partially attributed to the evolution and spread of automation tools, which are leveraged to perform wider attacks with fewer resources. Many steps of an attack can be automated…
