Mitiga in the News

The combination of ever-changing emerging technology and extremely fast adoption creates an enormous challenge for security departments trying to keep an organization secure

With the recent Okta and Microsoft breaches, the commentary from Ofer Maor, current Co-Founder and CTO of Mitiga, a cloud incident readiness and response company.

While there have been no specific cyber threats to the U.S. to date from the invasion, Russia’s attack on Ukraine — which has involved cyberattacks on Ukraine’s government and critical infrastructure organizations — may impact organizations beyond the region, the national Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said.

Technology is constantly changing, and while that might be a good thing as a whole, it does present new challenges. Many of those challenges are security-related, especially when it comes to the cloud. In fact, with many companies relying on cloud storage and solutions, the demand for cloud security is rising.

Finding and retaining security talent is an ongoing challenge, one that exposes organizations to increased risk because there simply aren’t enough security experts available. The Great Resignation has amplified that problem.

Mitiga, the cloud incident response company, announced today that it has achieved Advanced Technology Partner status in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). The Advanced tier is the highest designation APN Technology Partners can achieve, which is awarded to industry leaders that demonstrate investments in technical proficiency as well as experience with building software solutions on AWS and delivering excellent customer experiences.

Experts have sounded mixed security warnings in the wake of the pullout from Russia by Microsoft and other tech giants, with some playing down the impact on ordinary citizens there and others predicting a return to ‘pen and paper.’ More worryingly, others still are warning of a ‘ripple effect’ that could hurt Western businesses further down the digital supply chain.

In the hours before Russia invaded Ukraine, a destructive malware campaign used HermeticWiper to attack several Ukrainian organizations and, just a day after the invasion began, another wiper, dubbed IsaacWiper by ESET, was pressed into service against a Ukraine government network.

Ukraine spent years trying to push out Russian telecommunications providers to stymie surveillance and cyber espionage. The war is highlighting what stymied some of those attempts.