Security teams can assess vendors’ policies on data handling, incident response, data regionalization, and privacy. They can evaluate a service-level agreement for things like availability and security metrics. They can also scrutinize the vendor’s security culture and practices, including third-party audits, and confirm features like multifactor authentication and data recovery. Ideally, companies should do real-time security…

This isn’t the kind of thing you expect to see posted on the official Twitter account of Trezor, the well-known cryptocurrency wallet manufacturer. It’s a fairly blatant attempt to dupe unwary cryptocurrency fans into transfering digital currency into the wallet of a scammer. And whoever hacked Trezor’s Twitter account didn’t limit themselves to just posting…

Step 3: Threat profiling This phase helps to identify and prioritize threats and understand how they can manifest. Threat profiling starts with the identification of potentially relevant threats through discussion with key stakeholders and analyzing available sources of threat intelligence (e.g., an internal threat intelligence team or external commercial feeds). Once the threat landscape is…