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So once again a large data breach has happened. Millions of peoples\u2019 personal data have been compromised as part of the recent Equifax data breach, and we are once again scrambling to right our personal ships. You should know that\u00a0if you are over 18 years old there is a 60% chance that your data is in the possession of someone who wants to open credit cards in your name, which has the potential to wreak significant financial harm to you.<\/p>\n

What do we know about causes of the Equifax breach? \u00a0We are learning that there was a known vulnerability in the Apache software and default passwords were still enabled on systems. \u00a0These indicators were known for some time, a patch was available to guard against the Apache Struts Framework where the vulnerability existed, yet no action was taken. \u00a0I\u2019ve been in the IT industry for 20 years, either in network\/server operations or security roles, and ignoring things like basic patching has been going on for years. \u00a0I don\u2019t understand how companies let this continue to happen. \u00a0It\u2019s possible the Equifax breach could have been avoided by simple technical blocking and tackling, or in other words PATCHing!!<\/p>\n

In this day and age, there\u2019s no excuse not to patch your systems, as soon as a security patch was available. There are multiple\u00a0tools to automate software updates\u00a0and keep systems up to date with all the latest patches. \u00a0All too often we hear that \u201cif it\u2019s not broke why fix it\u201d, or \u201cwe can\u2019t patch those systems or they won\u2019t be compliant\u201d, and sometimes even \u201cour policy is to patch only once a year\u201d. \u00a0Even worse is the idea that we may know about a vulnerability, and know that a patch exists, but simply ignore it. \u00a0This was the case in the most recent incident at Equifax.<\/p>\n

Beyond basic patching, you can take another giant step toward protection of your systems by disrupting the kill chain as it involves DNS. Nearly every piece of malware must dial home, a.k.a, command and control (C&C) servers to get instructions. If you could stop that from happening, why wouldn\u2019t you? \u00a0But IT professionals seem to be either ignoring or unaware of the fact that DNS can play a larger role in protecting their infrastructure. \u00a0Additionally,\u00a0Infrastructure Protections Systems<\/a>\u00a0can monitor and report on systems with factory default login credentials (among other things), which appears to be the case with the most recent Equifax breach.<\/p>\n

We need to take steps as a digital society to be more conscientious of the data we store on our systems, it\u2019s literally people\u2019s lives. \u00a0Take the time and care to proactively protect this precious data and push back on those who would say we have enough protection in place. \u00a0We need to be actively pushing our vendors not only for timely patching but to provide expertise on how to utilize all network security facets of the solutions they provide. \u00a0We need to ask ourselves and our vendors if issues they are seeing can be used to notify other systems of those same issues, creating a vast ecosystem of shared data that can be used to make us more efficient and secure.<\/p>\n

As the world moves toward to cloud-based services and SaaS solutions, are we doing our best to protect our data in the \u201ccloud?\u201d We should work in lock step with the vendors that are assisting us with those solutions to ensure that we have the utmost security focus in the forefront. \u00a0We cannot assume that things are secure or that we will not be targeted.<\/p>\n

In the end, if a breach does occur, are you ready for it? \u00a0Do you have the teams and processes in place to deal with such an event? \u00a0Have you worked with your vendors to come up with a cybersecurity disaster recovery gameplan? \u00a0If you are contacted by a nefarious source that threatens your business, do you know what steps you need to take to protect yourself, and who you should contact (FBI, local police, etc.)? We must be working as a community to proactively mitigate these issues, and when necessary, react with swift action.<\/p>\n

So, what can you do about this? \u00a0It\u2019s simple really, we need to monitor and protect our data and infrastructure, mitigate malware and contain threats. \u00a0There are many ways to do this; I\u2019ll break those items down in a future blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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