Background Thousands of wide-eyed spectators around the world were getting ready to watch the Olympics, one of the largest events in the world. Suddenly the main website for the Olympic games goes down. The website was not only informational, but it was...
WRAL Interviewed Jon Sternstein, Founder & CEO of Stern Security on January 29th, 2025 about recent cyber attacks on local utilities. The initial incident that the story focused on was the cyber attack on the town of Apex, NC which affected the local utilities...
On November 8th, 2024, the Raleigh ISSA Chapter hosted the Triangle InfoSeCon event, the largest cybersecurity event in North Carolina. Stern Security's Founder & CEO, Jon Sternstein gave a presentation titled "Effective Cyber Risk Quantification". Cyber risk...
Background In 2023, Progress Software’s MOVEit file transfer application was the source of a dangerous zero-day vulnerability. Criminals that exploited this vulnerability were able to gain full access to the files on MOVEit servers. The research from Stern...
In its third annual healthcare data breach report, Stern Security has critically analyzed over 5,900 data breaches since the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began tracking the information in 2009. Stern Security utilized data from their...
On Friday, July 19th, 2024, the WRAL News team interviewed Stern Security's CEO, Jon Sternstein, about the massive CrowdStrike outage that blue-screened Windows devices around the world. Sternstein discussed the importance of business continuity plans and tabletop...
System and Organization Control (SOC) report reviews are a common part of the third-party due diligence function. These reports can be lengthy, contain elements that you really need to understand and agree to, different reviewers may produce different results, and...
On February 16th, 2024, WRAL News Interviewed Stern Security's CEO, Jon Sternstein, about AI, deepfakes, and election meddling. The interview discussed the current threat landscape, protective measures, and covered what big tech companies are doing to combat this...
System and Organization Control (SOC) reports have quickly become a standard request for SaaS application providers in order for customers to perform a security due diligence review. So, are all SOC reports the same? No! Should you read the SOC...
A well-run cybersecurity team operates like a beautiful orchestra, each individual knowing their part and contributing to the same goal. A cybersecurity team may consist of team members wearing numerous hats ranging from management, to defensive, and offensive...
