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Improving the Overall Cyber Defense Posture of the Manufacturing Supply Chain
Tommy McDowell, General Manager and Thought LeaderAs hard as businesses have worked to enhance security for hybrid operations, cybercriminals have worked just as diligently to find innovative ways of infiltrating and holding major ransom players in the supply chain. However, more work needs to be done. With the candle burning at both ends, it is time organizations shed the traditional measures to secure their environment and come up with alternative solutions.
This is where Celerium casts its magic. Leveraging its strong history in building threat intelligence sharing solutions, which include secure collaboration capabilities with automated distribution and routing capabilities, the firm transforms cyber defense for both companies and industry sectors. From enabling the largest cybersecurity teams to work effectively with cyberthreat intelligence to empowering even the smallest suppliers to stay current on threats they may be facing, Celerium’s cybersecurity solutions empower supply chains and enterprises of all sizes to stay one step ahead of bad actors. Their tailored solutions help improve supply chain cyber defense within critical infrastructure industries, including defense, heavy equipment manufacturing, and automotive.
At the heart of ransomware crisis is a common theme: the lack of robust processes to identify and successfully manage growing supply-chain risks. The supply chain is a critical place for a prime or hub organization that has many downstream suppliers, all working together pursuant to a contract or a mission. Even if one of those suppliers is compromised, or there is a threat targeting someone in the supply chain or an ongoing activity, there needs to be a way for the stakeholders within the supply chain to collaborate and respond collectively. Celerium’s crown jewel, the Cyber Defense Network (CDN), serves as an alternate means for an enterprise to facilitate cyber and ransomware readiness among its core suppliers and the small-and-medium-sized businesses it relies on. “There are communities inside of and among organizations that share threat intelligence. These communities need to be able to detect, respond, and collaborate, if there is an ongoing event and other similar kinds of activity,” informs Tommy McDowell, general manager and thought leader, Celerium. Historically, that hasn’t been the case. Usually, there is a prime, there are subcontractors, and each individual company has its own cybersecurity program. Nobody has really thought about one key question: How do we respond collectively for the supply chain as if it was an entity? CDN offers that capability.
In essence, CDN is a family of solutions that helps strengthen the overall defense of an enterprise supply chain
In essence, CDN is a family of solutions that helps strengthen the overall defense of an enterprise supply chain. These solutions provide mechanisms for industrial organizations to share cyber threat intelligence information among their suppliers. In addition to empowering cyber defenders to learn, engage, and collaborate, CDN provides community dashboards to enable cyber threat situational awareness and actions such as automation bots that allow suppliers to respond quickly to ever-changing threats. Some of the significant benefits offered by CDN are: it enables communities to create, share, and receive threat information easily and rapidly; enterprises can quickly assess and prioritize the most relevant data to determine a course of action; and lastly, it feeds high-quality intelligence into technology already in use, enhancing its value and responsiveness. Moreover, with CDN, both large and mid-sized cyber defenders can identify responses to and actions on threat data by other community members to determine their response.
Celerium has a special focus on helping the small and medium-sized businesses within a supply chain, as they often lack the resources and skills needed. A part of CDN’s cyber threat intelligence solution “enables small suppliers to stay current on new threats, even if they don’t have dedicated cybersecurity staff,” adds McDowell.
Highlighting the efficacy of Celerium’s solutions is its success story with an international manufacturing company that was being targeted. They were looking for answers to questions that included: ‘how are we being targeted?’ ‘What vulnerabilities are cyber criminals trying to exploit?’ ‘Are they successful in getting it?’ and so on. With Celerium’s CDN, the manufacturing company was able to obtain answers to all of the questions. “Their security operations center can now send alerts and possesses the necessary key detection capabilities. With our help, the client was also able to reduce the time their people spent in detecting, responding, limiting, and potentially stopping the escalation of an attack through one of their internationally distributed supply chains,” reveals McDowell.
Such accomplishments and contributions have helped Celerium grow exponentially over the years. In order to further optimize the outcome of its offerings, the company is working on evolving its solutions and capabilities to make them interoperable. Alongside, the team is looking to move its long history of creating collaboration capabilities and finding solutions to very complex, operational, and technical issues into the supply chain as well as every other sector. “We also offer educational training to the Department of Defense through our CMMC Insights courses, which we created to provide comprehensive training material on the CMMC practices in a given level and help those companies that need to implement CMMC,” states McDowell.
Managing cyber threats within the supply chain doesn’t have to be a daunting task. However, it is crucial organizations take responsibility for their own risk and maintain consistent standards for cybersecurity. With a partner like Celerium, there is no doubt that companies can fortify and improve the overall cyber defense posture of their supply chain seamlessly.
Company
Celerium
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Tommy McDowell, General Manager and Thought Leader
Description
From enabling the largest cybersecurity teams to work effectively with cyberthreat intelligence to empowering even the smallest suppliers to stay current on threats they may be facing, Celerium’s cybersecurity solutions empower supply chains, and enterprises of all sizes stay one step ahead of bad actors. Their tailored solutions help improve supply chain cyber defense within critical infrastructure industries, including defense, aviation, and automotive
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Celerium Releases White Paper on Data Breach Challenges Facing Healthcare Executives
The white paper highlights the business issues related to data breaches that are becoming bigger challenges for healthcare executives and boards of directors.
TORRANCE - Celerium Inc. today released a new white paper on data breach challenges facing healthcare executives.
Titled "Data Breaches: Major Challenges for Healthcare Executives," the white paper highlights the business issues related to data breaches and specific considerations that healthcare executives need to weigh as the data breach epidemic in healthcare continues to worsen.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) tracks data breach activity within the healthcare sector. This "wall of shame," as it is often called, shows an alarming rate of data breaches impacting healthcare organizations. Over the first four months of 2024, there were an average of 60 data breaches per month – that's two per day.
Given the rising threat of data breaches in the healthcare industry, the white paper from Celerium tells the story of how Pandora's box of new challenges facing business executives and board members is starting to open. Specific topics addressed in the white paper include:
• The regulatory landscape and how various regulatory bodies (HSS, SEC, FTC, FCC, DHS, and the FHA) are increasing pressure on executives and board members regarding data breaches.
• The 2024 challenges confronting health care, such as patient data privacy and safety, cybersecurity staffing, and others.
• The challenges of data breach detection. It takes an average of 255 days to detect a data breach in the healthcare sector.
• Executive challenges in early data breach detection and the growing executive challenges of data breach response, along with a primer on the importance of early response and containment.
• Legal peril for business executives and boards.
"Data Breaches: Major Challenges for Healthcare Executives" is available for free on the Celerium website. Visit Celerium.com to access and download the white paper.
TORRANCE - Celerium Inc. today released a new white paper on data breach challenges facing healthcare executives.
Titled "Data Breaches: Major Challenges for Healthcare Executives," the white paper highlights the business issues related to data breaches and specific considerations that healthcare executives need to weigh as the data breach epidemic in healthcare continues to worsen.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) tracks data breach activity within the healthcare sector. This "wall of shame," as it is often called, shows an alarming rate of data breaches impacting healthcare organizations. Over the first four months of 2024, there were an average of 60 data breaches per month – that's two per day.
Given the rising threat of data breaches in the healthcare industry, the white paper from Celerium tells the story of how Pandora's box of new challenges facing business executives and board members is starting to open. Specific topics addressed in the white paper include:
• The regulatory landscape and how various regulatory bodies (HSS, SEC, FTC, FCC, DHS, and the FHA) are increasing pressure on executives and board members regarding data breaches.
• The 2024 challenges confronting health care, such as patient data privacy and safety, cybersecurity staffing, and others.
• The challenges of data breach detection. It takes an average of 255 days to detect a data breach in the healthcare sector.
• Executive challenges in early data breach detection and the growing executive challenges of data breach response, along with a primer on the importance of early response and containment.
• Legal peril for business executives and boards.
"Data Breaches: Major Challenges for Healthcare Executives" is available for free on the Celerium website. Visit Celerium.com to access and download the white paper.
Jon posits:
“Landscape threats aren’t just the realm of those hacky types hiding away in their hoodies, looking at glowing screens, whispering ‘I’m in.’ Notice where he is sitting. He’s at home ... using an infrastructure that is all up in the cloud, accessible by anyone and everyone, and cheap to get running. This is the same infrastructure you’ve been using for your own stacks, your own apps, and your own video streaming and cloud storage.”
“We are not just seeing this come out of the individual shady types. We’re also seeing this pop up with nation-state actors. No longer needing the massive programs to exploit what you have, but instead buying exploits, or even the stolen data on the dark web they use day in and day out to fill their coffers.”
In this video, Jon prescribes how to combat these threats and threat actors.
For starters, Jon recommends securing your own MSP organization, starting with its firewall as the first line of protection. You need that extra technology to ensure nothing and no one are sneaking in.
Jon reports that threat actors are targeting your IT organization because they know you have access to all of your customer’s infrastructure. Jon shares: “Look at the vast majority of big hacks that are out there. These are the ones against companies that are massive, have large IT departments, have people constantly focused on this kind of stuff. And the way people get around that is by people ... the infamous Target hack ... where an HVAC guy’s passwords let him into the system.”
A second prescription Jon shares is the use of automatic threat detection and blocking to help you secure your and your customer’s business. As an example, Jon depicts how smaller businesses – like dentist and doctor’s offices – engage MSPs to secure the safety of their patients’ records. He highlights Celerium’s CDN Network Defender as a viable way to identify the threats coming into your customer’s network and automatically block them to stop bad actors from gaining access. He explains how Network Defender grabs threat intelligence from across the Internet, including intelligence from high-end threat feeds. It then correlates, compares and scores all that intelligence, enabling you to determine if a threat is a false positive or something you need to act upon.
In this video, Jon also prescribes Celerium’s CMMC Insights Courses as a productive way to prepare for your Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) assessment.
Watching this information-packed video will be time well spent.