To ensure the proper functioning and protection of cybersecurity systems within a company, periodic monitoring and evaluation are of utmost importance. Evaluating the organization's IT systems and infrastructure is crucial to understanding their level of cybersecurity.

The MITRE ATT&CK matrix, designed by the MITRE Corporation, is used to describe and catalog fraudulent behaviors in cybersecurity. To do this, it relies on tactics and techniques commonly used by cybercriminals to prevent users from such attacks.

Cybersecurity has become one of the most important aspects for companies to carry out their activities safely and ensure the privacy of their data and internal and confidential information.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a variant of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks and aim to disable a server, a service, or an infrastructure.

To give us a little context on the current state of ransomware attacks, the annual Sophos report, "The State of Ransomware 2023," reveals that cybercriminals successfully encrypted data in 76% of all ransomware attacks against the surveyed companies in the report. In 30% of the cases where the data was encrypted, it was also successfully exfiltrated."

While Industry 4.0 has focused on driving technologies like IoT, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence over the past decade, the arrival of Industry 5.0 marks a new evolution in this approach.

One of the most common cyberattacks is phishing and email account hacking. These attacks, increasingly sophisticated, are becoming harder to detect, resulting in a higher success rate compared to other types of attacks.

In a previous article, we talked about Petam.io, the automatic online scanner we have developed to detect security breaches as a tool to democratize cybersecurity.

How to know if you've been cyber-attacked? Surely, after this question, you might think, what a silly question, detecting a cyber attack is very easy and obvious. However, as cybersecurity specialists, we can tell you that this is not always the case. It all depends on your technical knowledge and the type of cyber attack.

MDR (Managed Detection and Response) is a managed cybersecurity service, which means it provides real-time monitoring, threat detection, and incident response autonomously. It's a solution that continuously monitors a client's network, identifies potential threats, and takes actions to contain and mitigate them.

In the realm of cybercrime, new methods of cybercriminals violating our rights and taking advantage of them are constantly being detected.

The technology company ABB was attacked with ransomware in May 2023 by the Black Basta group, which operates as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS).