Security

Spyware: What It Is, What It Does & What to Do About It

In the James Bond franchise, spies are elegant and sophisticated subversives who can climb treacherous mountains, outswim killer sharks, and even defeat enemies with a handy bagpipe flamethrower. But ...

Why Passwords Haven’t Disappeared Yet & What Organizations Should Do About It

123456. Qwerty. Iloveyou. No, these are not exercises for people who are brand new to typing. Shockingly, they are among the most common passwords that end users choose in 2021. Yes, you read that cor...

Building Your Way to DevSecOps

Once in a cafe, there was a dialogue between a waiter and a visitor: - I asked not for chicken, but beef, and not half-cooked, but fried. - Yes, that is a mistake, sorry, but everything is fresh here,...

The Evolution of Phishing: Why It’s Getting Worse & How to Fight Back

Recently, my colleague Marc-Olivier looked at some interesting and exciting IT trends in 2021. Unfortunately, technology is not only evolving to make our lives better — cyberthreats are also advancing...

Does Your Organization Have a Strategy for Employee Departures?

Until a few decades ago, it was common for people to spend their entire career working for a single employer — often starting from the bottom and working their way up through the ranks until retiring....

Should You Trust a Third Party with Your Cybersecurity?

In our last cybersecurity post on Devolutions, which explained how our MDR service works, we received a lot of great feedback. But we repeatedly got one question that surprised us: “Why would I ever t...

5 Common Cybersecurity Mistakes SMBs Make — and How to Fix Them

Legendary crooner Frank Sinatra — and a countless number of inebriated wedding guests who fancy themselves as karaoke superstars — have grabbed the mic and belted out the classic song My Way, which in...

Ransomware Rising: What’s Happening & How to Protect Your Organization

It is not malware. It is not spyware. It is not Trojans. It is not even DDoS. No, according to experts the title of the scariest beast on the cyberthreat landscape now belongs to ransomware. What is R...

20 Shocking Cybercrime Statistics: 2021 Edition

There are some horror movie franchises that get scarier and scarier with each release. Well, the cybercrime landscape is like that: just when you think that things are as frightening as they can get…t...

Supply Chain Attacks are On the Rise — Here’s How to Protect Your Organization

To say that the last 18 months have been unkind to many organizations is like saying that the sun is rather warm, or that the Himalayas are somewhat hilly. Frankly, the past year-and-a-half has been b...

What Are the Pros & Cons of Fingerprint Recognition Technology?

While UK law enforcers have been using fingerprint technology to convict people since the early 1900s, as recently as a decade ago, we would have struggled to believe we’d soon all use fingerprint rec...

4 Key Cloud Security Challenges in 2021 & How to Deal With Them

While drawing conclusions is difficult — and in many cases unwise — given how uncertain things have been over the last 18 months, one significant fact is indisputable: more organizations are rising to...

Protecting RDP Passwords from Mimikatz Using Remote Credential Guard

There was a bit of a stir recently when someone noticed that the password used to connect with RDP remained in memory and therefore could be grabbed by the popular mimikatz tool. The reality is that t...

Gartner Lists Top Security and Risk Management Trends in 2021

Gartner has revealed its list of the top security and risk management trends that will shape the business landscape in 2021. There are eight trends in total, which have been grouped into three categor...

[IMPROVED FEATURE] Increased Security of the API: Remote Desktop Manager with Devolutions Web Login

I am pleased to highlight that in the latest version of Remote Desktop Manager version 2021.1, we have increased the level of security for the API that pairs Remote Desktop Manager with Devolutions We...

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[NEW] Security Advisories

Here at Devolutions, one of our core values is to be transparent in our actions across the organization. As part of this commitment, today I am pleased to announce that going forward, we will be publi...

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Is an MDR the Right Solution for Your Organization?

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is an outsourced cybersecurity management service that provides organizations with 360-degree visibility into security and proactive detection of cyber threats. MD...

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How Remote Working Is Permanently Changing the Business Landscape

For more than a year now, people have been craving a “return to normal,” both professionally and personally. And while there is reason to be cautiously optimistic that things are stabilizing, some asp...

10 Ways to Increase VPN Security

Here is a question I get a lot: “Do virtual private networks provide effective security for businesses?” The short answer is: Yes! Now, here is the longer answer: VPNs use encryption to create a secur...

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SolarWinds & Solorigate: What Happened, Why it Matters & What Happens Next

There are so many data breaches these days, that they all seem to morph together into an endless cycle of cyber destruction. Indeed, we have gone from being shocked at stories about hacks (remember Ta...