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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – A Birmingham-based medical practice is informing patients of a data breach that could have compromised personal information.
Cardiovascular Associates (CVA), a physician practice with multiple locations in and around Birmingham, discovered on December 5 that systems within CVA’s network may have been subject to unauthorized activity.
After an investigation, it was determined that a third party had gained access to personal information and removed a copy of some data between November 28 and December 5.
CVA said that some of the personal information involved may include one or more of the following:
CVA said that for a limited number of people, the information may have also included username and password information. The practice did note that “not all data elements were involved for all individuals.”
CVA takes the security of personal information seriously. As soon as the incident was discovered, a forensic investigation was launched, and steps were taken to mitigate and remediate the incident and to help prevent further unauthorized activity. In response to this incident, security and monitoring capabilities are being enhanced and systems are being hardened as appropriate to minimize the risk of any similar incident in the future.
CVA said they are offering complimentary credit monitoring and identity restoration services to those whose sensitive information may have been involved. They advise for patients to carefully review credit reports and statements from healthcare providers and financial institutions to ensure valid account activity.
CVA has set up a dedicated assistance line for anyone seeking more information about the incident. Anyone with questions over the next 90 days can call 1 (833) 753-3802 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Monday through Friday. More information is available at https://response.idx.us/cvainformation/.
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Strong cyber security measures are now essential given the speed at which businesses are going digital and the rise in cyber threats. Businesses need the help of cyber security firms to protect themselves from attacks and prevent the compromise of important data. Security has become a top priority for both individuals and businesses as a result of the rapid advancement of technology and the addition of new devices to the online world every day.
If a network or equipment is not properly safeguarded from hackers, it might be damaged and breached. According to projections, the cost of cybercrime is expected to rise to $10.5 trillion by 2025. Due to their extensive data collection and storage, businesses are particularly susceptible to cybercrime.
As the nation’s capital and a major commercial center, Delhi is home to a large number of cybersecurity firms. But, not all cyber security companies are the same, so it’s important to pick the one that best suits your needs.
We’ll talk about the leading cyber security companies in Delhi, their offerings, and their distinctive qualities in this blog. In this blog, we’ll look at a few of Delhi’s best cyber security firms, their specialties, and how they’re assisting businesses in keeping their data secure in the current digital environment. So let’s investigate the finest cyber security companies in Delhi.


Cybersecurity is the process of defending computer systems, networks, programs, and data against theft, damage, or unwanted access. In order to stop, recognize, and address attacks and threats against digital systems, a variety of strategies and procedures are used.
Due to the increase in frequency and sophistication of cyberattacks, which can take the shape of viruses, malware, phishing schemes, ransomware, and other forms of malicious software, cybersecurity is becoming an increasingly essential topic. These assaults can potentially compromise private information, result in monetary losses, interfere with commercial operations, and harm one’s reputation.
Organizations and individuals must put in place a number of security measures to maintain cybersecurity, including employing strong passwords, encrypting sensitive data, upgrading software and systems frequently, utilizing firewalls and antivirus software, and offering staff cybersecurity training.
Due to the sophistication and frequency of cyber threats, cybersecurity has emerged as one of the top concerns for both enterprises and individuals. Cyber threats are becoming more sophisticated and complex as technology develops. It should come as no surprise that businesses all around the world are investing in cyber security to safeguard themselves against potential assaults. Some businesses that focus on offering cyber security services are located in Delhi, the capital of India. The solutions provided by these businesses include threat detection and response, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, and security consultancy.


Below is the list of the Top Cyber security companies in Delhi
Numerous businesses offer various cyber security services, but it’s still unclear which is the best. One of the leading cyber security providers, Kratikal can meet all of your organizational needs.
Kratikal, one of the leading cybersecurity companies, is well known for its innovative security solutions. In addition to security auditing for PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and ISO 27001, it offers a comprehensive range of penetration testing and vulnerability assessment services.
Through security testing, Kratikal, a CERT-In Empanelled security solutions provider, offers the services required to guarantee the protection of an organization’s IT assets as well as the safety of its employees. The aim of the entire VAPT service portfolio, which includes Network Penetration Testing, Application Penetration Testing, Cloud Penetration Testing, and many others, is to locate the weaknesses in various devices and their networks so that they can be fixed in advance.
In order to help you choose a top cyber security testing company in Delhi, we set out to enlighten you about them in this blog. Post your comments in the space provided below.
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As governments and organizations standardize and harmonize their responses to better mitigate the increasing number of cyber-attacks, so do cybercriminals. In Europe, security decision-makers and businesses face similar attack techniques as their global counterparts. While the methodologies employed are identical because they all rely on the same digital technologies exploiting similar vulnerabilities, the motivations vary.
The threat actors can be distinguished into two major groups according to their motivation:
Both groups follow well-known pathways to initial compromise, such as exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities, credential theft, social engineering and phishing attacks, and deploying malware with a preference for ransomware attacks.
A Forrester report found that throughout 2022, CISOs in European organizations faced four threats that differed from the global trends.
State-sponsored attacks are a valid concern for European businesses, but organized crime is booming.
While Europe is not the key target of state-sponsored activities, security leaders must be aware of this problem. Africa, the Middle East and Turkey are most targeted by politically motivated actors, followed by Northern Europe. In Europe, organizations are predominantly plagued by financially driven threat actors located in Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
Organized cybercriminals have skilled up as cybercrime goes mainstream. With the cybercrime economy growing and becoming the third-largest global economy, criminal gangs are forming collectives to exchange knowledge and trade. Organized Crime as a Service is booming, taking several forms:
Overall, we witness an increased collaboration between cybercriminal gangs, more like Crime as a Business. Cybercriminals have specializations, like any business and teams, and work together to achieve objectives ranging from petty scams to espionage.
Forrester’s data highlights that 16% of European security decision-makers treat securing OT environments as a top tactical priority. At the same time, IBM reports a 2,204% increase in reconnaissance against OT systems.
State-sponsored affiliated actors, including Electrum, Magnallium, and Xenotime, increasingly target manufacturing organizations. These actors gain initial access using credential theft, exploiting cloud vulnerabilities and malware. However, the positive sign is that security decision-makers at organizations that had experienced disruption or data ransom were more likely to prioritize ICS or OT security.
Businesses need help to integrate threat intelligence into their security programs. However, threat intelligence feeds listing initial compromise indicators must be more comprehensive. European organizations must evaluate their threat intelligence program through three lenses: tactical, operational, and strategic. This is essential because, besides recognizing the attackers’ tactics, geography and politics are vital factors to consider when building cyber threat intelligence.
Therefore, businesses should base their threat intel program on four critical considerations:
Focusing on the OT domain, security begins with knowing your environment. Therefore, the first step is to identify all your intellectual property and where it resides and consider how you can protect it with consistent data security policies.
Once you have achieved the desired level of visibility, the next step is to encrypt your critical data and implement a data loss prevention (DLP) strategy. Leveraging specialized DLP software offers multiple benefits for organizations. Finally, you should use data classification capabilities and centralized policy management to simplify detection and policy enforcement.
However, cybersecurity is not only about processes. It is also about the people and technology in your organization. European organizations should prepare their people for the possibility of a successful attack. There are several steps you can take in this direction:
Fortra has long been known for helping organizations become more secure and autonomous. To increase security maturity and decrease operational burden, we must address technology-based and people-based vulnerabilities together. That means securing infrastructure and data, consistently improving people’s awareness of security risks, and supplementing their teams with additional security operations resources.
By doing this successfully, we will significantly increase an organization’s security maturity in the areas that account for 75% of all attacks with just one cybersecurity partner while decreasing their operational burden. Fortra offers a wide range of cybersecurity solutions to help European organizations effectively protect against the evolving threat landscape.
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Global economic uncertainty hangs over everything like a dark cloud, which is triggering market volatility and risks across the cybersecurity sector too.
“Cybersecurity is not immune to recessions — research indicates that cyberattacks increase during and following economic downturns,” the think tank said in the report.
Key risk factors related to a potential recession include delayed innovation and inadequate budgets for long-term investments.
Organizations have improved corporate governance in cybersecurity, but the headway has been modest at best, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center. Distance between security professionals and the C-suite on information flow and decision making, and a lack of technical expertise on boards of directors are compounding this risk and must be addressed.
The think tank also called out vulnerable infrastructure, particularly third- and fourth-party vendors that may lack necessary cybersecurity controls, as a top risk for 2023.
“Vulnerable software, operating systems, or other infrastructure almost always factor into consequential security incidents and data breaches,” the report said.
“Keeping pace with patching and replacing end-of-life software and hardware is a major operational burden for organizations of all sizes. When this need is ignored, the cost, complexity and likelihood of incidents multiply over time,” the think tank warned in its report.
Other top macro risks include overlapping and conflicting regulations, talent scarcity, geopolitical tension and an accelerating cyber arms race.
The report pulled from a working group assembled to identify the top cybersecurity risks confronting all stakeholders. Members include current and former officials in state and federal government and executives from banking, cloud, communications, health, energy and other sectors.
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At the most basic level, security research happens when curious people poke around data. What makes it good security research is when these people have access to good data and the right kind of skills.
That is what Rapid7 hopes to accomplish with its new partnership with the University of South Florida to create a cyber threat intelligence laboratory. The Boston company recently made a $1.5 million donation via the Rapid7 Cybersecurity Foundation to set up the Rapid7 Cyber Threat Intelligence Laboratory at the school.
Rapid7 will provide the laboratory with access to its massive data initiatives, including Metasploit, Velociraptor, and Sonar, says Corey Thomas, Rapid7’s CEO. The laboratory will support interdisciplinary research efforts by faculty experts and students and help drive a deeper understanding of the challenges defenders are currently facing.
“We are already investing in the data, and we want more people to use the data,” says Thomas, noting that people with varying experiences and backgrounds bring diverse perspectives and wind up using the data differently. “Start with the same data and get different insights,” Thomas says.
The students will have the opportunity for hands-on learning and cybersecurity skills development as well as real-world experience tracking global threat actors. Laboratory projects and research based on threat intelligence data will help students better understand the challenges security practitioners face as they protect users, Thomas says. The laboratory would play a role in helping to educate and develop the next generation of security professionals, he adds.
Through the laboratory, students and faculty will have access to real world data they can use for research and training, which is an “unprecedented opportunity,” Robert Bishop, dean of the USF College of Engineering, says in an email to Dark Reading. “Most importantly, this partnership is going to bring the campus together on cybersecurity research.”
The laboratory will launch by establishing an interdisciplinary faculty leadership foundation with a new directorship in the USF College of Engineering and endowed faculty positions created in four USF colleges: the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Behavioral and Community Sciences, College of Engineering, and the Muma College of Business. The laboratory will also work closely with the State of Florida’s Cyber Florida initiative, a program based out of the university focused on expanding and enhancing the cybersecurity workforce in the Tampa Bay region.
Rapid7 already has a history of investing in the community, Thomas says. There are many areas of collaboration in threat intelligence, incident response, and information sharing. With this partnership with the University of South Florida, the company is “escalating our commitment to open data, open research, and open threat intelligence,” Thomas says.
Thomas says he is not going to try to predict what kind of research projects will come out of the laboratory. Rapid7 is providing the data, but the university faculty and students will be pushing forward their own ideas and perspectives. “We aren’t controlling the outcome — the professors and students have their own plans,” Thomas says.
Many universities have established cybersecurity laboratories to provide students with hands-on learning opportunities to gain cybersecurity skills and real-world experience in the field. A laboratory setting makes it possible to refine techniques, get access to different resources from outside partners, and collaborate across different fields to drive research in security technology and techniques. The results of the laboratory research will help improve the industry’s understanding of attacker behavior, and those insights then flows back to practitioners to apply to their jobs.
Back in 2018, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) opened a cybersecurity laboratory at the University of Waterloo to help build advanced cybersecurity and privacy tools. The RBC investment supported researchers in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science and the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics, according to the university. Research projects included data-driven software defined security, privacy-enhancing technologies, and post-quantum cryptography. Defense contractor Northrop Grumman partnered with California Polytechnic University back in 2014 to establish the Cal Poly–Northrop Grumman Cyber Lab as a cybersecurity teaching facility. The lab gave faculty and students the opportunity to engage with experts from other higher education institutions, private businesses, defense and government agencies, and research labs.
These private sector partnerships with educational institutions also focus on developing a cybersecurity workforce. For example, IBM partnered with Historically Black College & Universities to establish Cybersecurity Leadership Centers. As part of the partnership, IBM provides a customized security curriculum and learning platform to complement the university’s cybersecurity education offerings. Faculty and students also have access to IBM Security’s Command Center, an immersive training experience on how to respond to cyberattacks.
The Rapid7 Cyber Threat Intelligence Laboratory fits in with ongoing cybersecurity initiatives at the University of South Florida because of the focus on developing the skills needed to enter the cybersecurity workforce. The university recently received a $3.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish the Cybersecurity Research and Education for Service in Government (CREST) program. The NSF grant would provide scholarships for over two dozen graduate and undergraduate students to prepare them for in-demand and high-paying jobs with the federal government and other public institutions, according to a university press release. The funds will also be used to bolster educational and research resources at the Florida Center for Cybersecurity, or Cyber Florida, which is housed at USF and gives students access to classroom simulations and experiential learning opportunities. There is also a program to help professionals without a computer science background enter a master’s program in the field, according to Dr. Sudeep Sarkar, distinguished university professor and department chair of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida.
“By focusing on both continuing education for professionals and enhancing current cybersecurity education efforts, USF is working to fill the talent pipeline for one of the fastest growing and most lucrative fields in the United States,” Sarkar tells Dark Reading in an email exchange.
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HUBC stock is bouncing back from recent dips
Hub Cyber Security (NASDAQ:HUBC) stock is on the rise shortly after the company went public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with Mount Rainier Acquisition Corp.
That merger took place on Wednesday and saw the company’s shares change over to the new HUBC stock ticker. However, the company didn’t go public without its own drama, as certain issues caused the stock to fall with its debut.
That negative momentum continued into Thursday as shares saw a 21.4% decline in normal trading hours on Thursday. That came alongside more than 11 million shares changing hands.
Now, it seems like shares of HUBC stock are finally done falling as they rally this morning. The company’s shares are climbing 62.4% in pre-market trading on Friday. That comes as 10 million shares of the stock change hands.
Hub Cyber Security is a cybersecurity company that’s targeting a different form of data protection. The company seeks to protect data when it’s in use, rather than just in storage or in transit. The company seeks commercial customers as well as contracts with large businesses and governments for cloud data protection.
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High Street retailer WH Smith has been hit by a cyber-attack, with hackers accessing some of its workers' data.
Data that may have been breached includes names, addresses, National Insurance numbers and dates of birth of the firm's current and former UK staff.
However, its website, customer accounts and customer databases are not affected, WH Smith said.
The company said it had launched an investigation and had told the relevant authorities of the incident.
"WH Smith takes the issue of cyber-security extremely seriously and investigations into the incident are ongoing," it said.
"We are notifying all affected colleagues and have put measures in place to support them."
It added: "There has been no impact on the trading activities of the group. Our website, customer accounts and underlying customer databases are on separate systems that are unaffected by this incident."
WH Smith did not say how many of its current and former employees had been affected by the breach, which took place earlier this week. The company employs about 10,000 people in the UK across its High Street stores and outlets at railway stations and airports.
The Information Commissioner's Office, a watchdog which investigates data breaches, said it was aware of the incident and was investigating.
Lauren Wills-Dixon, an expert in data privacy law at law firm Gordons, said retailers were at a higher risk of cyber-attack because of the large amount of data they hold on their customers and employees.
"There is also enhanced reputational risk and potential for disruption because retailers are so reliant on public trust and confidence, which cyber incidents threaten to undermine. This makes the retail sector an attractive target."
She added that attacks on employees' data could be more damaging than others because the type of data companies hold about their staff means a leak can lead to a greater risk of identity theft for the affected individuals.
This year has already seen two cyber-attacks on high-profile UK companies.
In January, Royal Mail was hit by a Russian linked ransomware attack that caused severe disruption to overseas deliveries for several weeks.
That same month sportswear chain JD Sports said that it had been targeted by a cyber-attack which could have put data relating to 10 million customers at risk.
In April last year, online greeting card company Funky Pigeon, which is owned by WH Smith, was hit by a cyber-attack that left it unable to process orders for several days.
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