2022 Cyber Security Report

whitePaper | March 5, 2020

Held Hostage in Hollywood: In February 2016 the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, in Los Angeles, paid a ransom of about US$17,000 to hackers who infiltrated and disabled its computer network with ransomware. The hospital paid the ransom of 40 Bitcoins (currently worth about $16,664) after a “network infiltration” began on February 5, when employees reported being unable to access the hospital’s network and electronic medical records system. “The malware locked access to certain computer systems and prevented us from sharing communications electronically,” said hospital CEO Allen Stefanek.

whitePaper | October 18, 2022

The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) is a NATO-accredited knowledge hub offering a unique interdisciplinary approach to the most relevant issues in cyber defence.

whitePaper | October 26, 2022

To address the impacts of climate change, the U.S. electric grid will be undergoing significant changes by integrating clean energy resources such as solar and wind. These efforts will be accelerated with the recent passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act1 and the Inflation Reduction Act.

whitePaper | March 14, 2023

This document describes data that is exchanged between the Hardware Management Console (HMC) and the IBM Service Delivery Center (SDC). In addition, it also covers the methods and protocols for this exchange. This includes the configuration of “Call Home” (Electronic Service Agent) on the HMC for automatic hardware error reporting. All the functionality that is described herein refers to Power Systems HMC and the HMC that is used for the IBM Storage System DS8000.

whitePaper | October 22, 2021

Are you confident that only the right people are getting access to your sensitive business assets? Organizations have to be concerned about privileged insiders compromising security and about outsiders posing as authorized users but who really aren't. Putting effective defenses into place, as a result, requires organizations to look both ways.

whitePaper | June 6, 2023

API Security: Best Practices for Vulnerability Mitigation provides a hands-on approach to mitigate security vulnerabilities in APIs. The paper emphasizes the importance of implementing security measures that protect the API and underlying infrastructure. The paper identifies various security vulnerabilities that can arise in APIs and provides detailed guidelines for securing them. These guidelines cover authentication, authorization, input validation, output encoding, error handling, logging, and auditing.