By Carol Hildebrand, Senior Writer, Security, NETSCOUT The COVID-19 pandemic handed some Herculean tasks to many enterprise IT and cybersecurity teams.  First, IT had to adjust architectures and practices to support a massive, unplanned shift to remote work for those who were able to work at home. Many companies implemented large-scale remote-access architectures, as well… View Article

On Friday, 2 July, CTA members became aware of a ransomware campaign targeting Kaseya’s VSA product. VSA is used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to monitor and manage information technology for their clients, provide automation, and assist with software patch management. In this incident, an affiliate of REvil leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in VSA to… View Article

By: Yongjia Chen, Dathan Duplichen, Andrew Shu, Anna Nguyen Yip   Although the ransomware threat currently gets the most attention, botnets remain a significant problem in the digital ecosystem. As part of our capstone project in the Master’s in International Policy degree program at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, our team reviewed the… View Article