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Data breach at medical billing firm MCBS affects 1.26 million people
Healthcare billing company Medical Computer Business Services (MCBS) has disclosed that a 2025 network breach exposed the sensitive information of more than 1.2 million people. Commenting, Deborah Galea Senior Manager at Filigran, said: “PEAR is a clear signal of where extortion is heading: attackers no longer need to encrypt a single file to bring an organisation to its knees.
Orca Security: A Strong Performer in the 2024 Forrester Wave™ for Cloud Workload Security
At Orca Security, we’re on a mission to make it fast, easy, and cost effective for organizations to address the most critical cloud security issues so they can operate in the cloud with confidence. As a purpose-built cloud native platform, we aim to address a wide-range of cloud security requirements, spanning cloud infrastructure, workloads and applications, data and storage, APIs, and more.
TAG Cyber Report Shows 207% ROI on the Orca Cloud Security Platform
When making business purchasing decisions, quantifiable metrics such as return on investment (ROI) can be very helpful when determining to what extent an expenditure will help drive organizational goals such as increased efficiency, reduced costs, and improved processes. ROI calculations can also be valuable when presenting proposals to different stakeholders, and is often something that C-level executives and board members will ask for when making significant purchasing decisions.
5 Best Practices for PCI DSS Compliance in the Cloud
Originally published by Orca Security. Written by Vini Mostovoy and Deborah Galea. If your organization processes credit card payments, you are probably familiar with PCI DSS, a compliance mandate that was initially established in 2004. However, with the increasing adoption of cloud computing, more organizations are storing and processing credit card information in the cloud.
Five Best Practices for PCI DSS Compliance in the Cloud
If your organization processes credit card payments, you are probably familiar with PCI DSS, a compliance mandate that was initially established in 2004. However, with the increasing adoption of cloud computing, more organizations are storing and processing credit card information in the cloud. This presents new compliance challenges since securing cloud environments requires a totally different approach than on-premise environments.
Five Things You Need to Know About Malware on Storage Buckets
Cloud storage buckets, such as Amazon S3 Buckets, Azure Blob storage and GCP storage buckets, are a popular storage solution for many organizations. In fact, we found that nearly all (99%) of Orca customers are using at least one type of storage bucket. Given the many advantages storage buckets offer, this is not surprising: these cloud repositories are highly scalable and cost-effective, and they simplify sharing for remote collaboration purposes.
Track Specific Events and Behaviors with Custom Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) Alerts
One of the offerings in the Orca Cloud Security Platform is Cloud Detection and Response (CDR), which allows organizations to detect active attacks in their cloud environments, quickly understand the context and potential severity, and respond as effectively as possible. A new feature that we recently added to our CDR capabilities is the ability for organizations to create their own alerts on specific events and behaviors they want to track.
Orca Announces Support for India Cloud Data Center Further Demonstrating Commitment to Multi-National and APAC organizations
In addition to supporting existing cloud data center locations in North America, Europe, and Australia, Orca Security today announced support of a cloud data center location in India, demonstrating our long-term commitment to support the cloud security needs of global organizations as well as our growing customer base in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
Orca’s Cloud Security Platform Achieves FedRAMP Ready Status
Orca Security is excited to announce that our Cloud Security Platform has achieved the FedRAMP Ready designation, which indicates the offering has the capability to serve the US Federal Government, its agencies and contractors with a fully agentless cloud security platform for Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) environments.
2022 State of Public Cloud Security Report
Originally published by Orca Security here. Written by Bar Kaduri and Deborah Galea, Orca Security. Orca Security has released the 2022 State of the Public Cloud Security report, which provides important insights into the current state of public cloud security and where the most critical security gaps are found. The report further provides recommendations on what actions organizations can take to reduce their attack surface and improve cloud security postures.
Elevate Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) with Analytics & Guided Remediation
Due to the common use of default policies, AWS cloud identities tend to have overly permissive policies which in most cases are unnecessary and significantly weaken an organization’s cloud security posture. Therefore, it is always recommended to follow the least-privilege principle, which entails limiting permissions to those that are strictly needed by the user or application to perform a task.
Why Agent-based Security Fails in Rapid Response Scenarios
Cloud platform and security teams are well-aware of the challenges in swiftly responding to new vulnerabilities and zero-day threats. There are countless examples just in the past year of major threats that impacted cloud environments and applications and required rapid responses, including: Log4Shell: Multiple critical CVEs and attack vectors were identified in the popular Log4j framework, requiring teams to identify all vulnerable applications and apply patches to several updated versions.
Orca Security Named SC Award Finalist in CSPM and CWPP Categories
We are excited to announce that the Orca Cloud Security Platform has been recognized as a Trust Award finalist in the Best Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) and Best Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) categories for the 2022 SC Media Awards. Now in its 25th year, the SC Awards are cybersecurity’s most prestigious and competitive program. Finalists are recognized for outstanding solutions, organizations, and people driving innovation and success in information security.
Seven Excellent Ways to Celebrate Employee Appreciation Day
By Deborah Galea Employee Appreciation Day is celebrated each year on the first Friday in March. On this day, employers around the world make the extra effort to appreciate their employees’ hard work and dedication. Over the past 20 years, an increasing number of companies have embraced this occasion to recognize the achievements and contributions of their employees. Why is Employee Appreciation Day important?
10 Tips for Being a Happy and Successful Remote Worker
According to the State of the Remote Job Marketplace report from FlexJobs, 3.9 million U.S. employees, or 2.9% of the total U.S. workforce, now work from home at least half of the time. With hiring managers predicting that in the next 10 years, more than one third of their employees will work remotely, this number is only set to grow.
Don't Underestimate the Marketing Power of Your Email Signature
The average worker sends out about 34 emails a day, according to the Radicati Group. Those emails are exchanged with prospects, customers, suppliers, and business partners, creating a great opportunity to educate and inform contacts by means of a small, yet useful marketing tool: the email signature. Email signatures include the sender's contact information, job title, and company information.
The ILoveYou legacy -- how malware has changed in the past 15 years
Where were you when the 'ILoveYou' bug started spreading on 4 May 2000? Was your computer one of the tens of millions of PCs the Love Letter attacked? Fifteen years ago, email messages with the subject line 'ILoveYou' and the message 'Kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me' started propagating to millions of inboxes. The malware-laced attachment was named LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs.
SCADA Security: How Britain can reinforce its nuclear and weapons control systems against cyber threats
The word SCADA may mean little to you at first glance, but this apparently innocuous acronym denotes one of the UK's most crucial analytics tools, one which keeps the country moving by ensuring our nuclear power plants, our airports and our weapons caches continue to run smoothly.
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