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GRF Chosen by FDIC to Showcase Operational Resilience Framework
GRF and its team creating the multi-sector Operational Resilience Framework are pleased to have been selected by The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) for its “tech sprint” to help identify solutions to measure and test operational resilience to major disruptions.
Partner Program Provides “Ghost” Sensors for Hunting and Sharing Threat Intel
Global Resilience Federation (GRF) has partnered with RiskAnalytics and ICE Security to offer a free “Ghost” Sensor for members to deploy, providing automated, near real-time threat hunting and sharing of threat actor activity.
LS-ISAO Launches Cyber Incident Response Committee
According to IBM, the average cost of a data breach has risen to $4.24 million in 2021, with the average cost of a ransomware breach at $4.62 million and business email compromise at $5.01 million. LS-ISAO, a non-profit, assists firms by providing intelligence, analysis, infrastructure, and resources that law firms leverage to defend their practice.
Global Resilience Federation Releases Multi-Sector Ransomware Impact Report: Manufacturing Most Heavily Targeted Sector
The nonprofit Global Resilience Federation (GRF) has created a semiannual report detailing ransomware attacks across sectors, based on incident data gathered directly from threat actor chatter on the Dark Web.
Kaseya VSA Supply-Chain Ransomware Attack
One of Kaseya’s tools, the Virtual System Administrator (VSA), was subverted on Friday, July 2nd, allowing ransomware actors to paralyze hundreds of businesses on five continents.
GRF Singapore Team Work with World Economic Forum to Design Oil and Gas Cyber Playbook for Boards
Global Resilience Federation (GRF) is pleased to share the World Economic Forum white paper “Cyber Resilience in the Oil and Gas Industry: Playbook for Boards and Corporate Officers”
K12 SIX Threat Information Sharing Community Develops Recommendations in Ransomware Task Force to Combat Growing Menace
K12 SIX provided open source, aggregated impact data from ransomware attacks on primary and secondary education in the United States.
Global Resilience Federation Partners with F-Secure to Provide Managed Detection and Response to Members
Global Resilience Federation (GRF) has joined with F-Secure to offer visibility into threat actor behavior to GRF’s worldwide network of organizations.
K12 SIX Launched to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Primary and Secondary Education
K12 SIX provided open source, aggregated impact data from ransomware attacks on primary and secondary education in the United States.
GRF Partners with Agari for Phishing Defense Against Cybercriminals, Nation-States and Hacktivists
Global Resilience Federation (GRF), a network for cross-sector intelligence exchange, announced today that is has selected email security firm Agari as its vendor partner to enhance phishing defense solutions for GRF’s threat information headquarters as it manages and facilitates cyber warning and mitigation for industries around the world.
Vulnerability Management in the Work from Home Era
A Stanford study estimates that nearly half the U.S. labor force is working remotely due to COVID-19. While readers of this post are likely very cyber-aware, such a standard probably can't be applied to the millions of American employees logging in from factory setting or unsecured WiFi networks.