To prevent this, organizations should focus on developing secure hardware and firmware foundations, enabling them to manage, monitor, and remediate hardware and firmware security.
The dangerous ransomware group is targeting financial and insurance sectors using smishing and vishing against IT service desk administrators, cybersecurity teams, and other employees with top-level privileges.
The Institute for Security and Technology's UnDisruptable27 project connects technology firms with the public sector to strengthen US cyber defenses in case of attacks on critical infrastructure.
Business intelligence firm Gartner labels security orchestration, automation, and response as "obsolete," but the fight to automate and simplify security operations is here to stay.