4 ways to stay cyber safe, what Zero Trust means for federal agencies, and how to maintain a strong security posture in hybrid cloud environments

Cybersecurity: 4 ways to see yourself as part of the solution

Individual hackers have been replaced with highly trained organizations as the primary perpetrators of attacks that increasingly employ “sophisticated tools, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and automation,” according to a recent?McKinsey trends report, “to expedite the attack life cycle, from reconnaissance through exploitation.” Here are four things organizations that are fighting back can learn from bad actors’ inventiveness.

What Zero Trust means for federal agencies

Using compromising attack vectors, hackers have stepped up their focus on social engineering and the growing number of endpoints active in an environment to great and lucrative effect.?Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) addresses this by essentially treating all entities as threats until proven otherwise.?What is ZTA and what does it mean for federal agencies and organizations?

How to maintain a strong security posture in hybrid cloud environments

With cloud-based systems, organizations are extending their attack surface beyond where they have direct responsibility for the execution of security controls. Brian Spanswick, our Chief Information Security Officer, shares a few best practices for organizations looking to benefit from a hybrid cloud environment while maintaining a strong security posture in Forbes.

Cohesity selected to join Sheltered Harbor Alliance Partner Program to further cyber resilience in financial services

In the financial services sector, failure of critical IT systems is not an option. Cohesity is pleased to have been selected to join the?Sheltered Harbor?Alliance Partner Program to help boost cyber resiliency in the U.S. financial system. In concert with a vast ecosystem of subject matter experts, industry associations, core service providers, and select partners—including Cohesity—Sheltered Harbor is dedicated to developing and refining resilience standards for the protection and recovery of isolated data.

Livestream replay: Spotlight on Security

Our CEO and President, Sanjay Poonen sat down with cybersecurity expert Kevin Mandia to chat about the need for resilience because you “can’t pitch a perfect game all the time.”

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