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Hank Schless

Senior Manager, Security Solutions

After working for fintech and database technology companies, Hank has found a home in cybersecurity. Before Lookout, he was the 20th employee at a cloud infrastructure security startup and helped the company grow to over 160 employees. At Lookout, he is a Senior Manager on the Security Solutions team, enabling internal teams and informing the market about the growing need to secure mobile devices as part of the larger security strategy

ZTNA

Three Lessons from the Confluence Server Vulnerability (CVE-2022-26134)

Recently, Atlassian issued a major security notice to all of its users about a critical vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-26134, in its widely-used Confluence Server solution. The vulnerability would allow an unauthenticated malicious actor to execute arbitrary code on a Confluence Server or Data Center instance that could grant an attacker full command of the vulnerable server.

Risk and Compliance

Lookout Helps a Leading Financial Technology Company Improve Security and Compliance

When a leading financial technology provider began posting record success, it needed a holistic security strategy to protect its customer data and comply with regulations. The firm turned to Lookout to help secure their online financial platform.

Zero Trust

Don’t Leave it to Your Apps: Why Security Needs to be a Shared Responsibility

Whether you’re building your footprint on-premises, on the cloud or on a hybrid architecture, security needs to be a converged effort, where the cloud app works in lockstep with other solutions.

Threat Intelligence

Protect Yourself from Powerful Pegasus Spyware (Updated)

Even five years after Lookout and Citizen Lab discovered it, advanced mobile spyware Pegasus remains highly relevant as revelation of its widespread usage and evolving capabilities — such as the ability to deliver zero-click attacks — continue to surface.

SSE

How to Protect Your Data When Ransomware Strikes

A ransomware attack isn’t just a single event; it’s a persistent threat. To secure your organization, you need a full picture of what is happening with your endpoints, users, apps and data.

CASB

Lookout Helps a Large Construction Firm Protect Intellectual Property Shared Between Employees, Partners and Contractors

One of the largest commercial and civil contractors in the United States moved to the cloud to help unlock operational efficiencies. See why they turned to Lookout to help them protect sensitive data, monitor unsanctioned apps and mitigate threats.

CASB

Lookout Helps a Large Oil and Gas Company Migrate to Cloud-Based Human Capital Management Software

See why this large oil and gas company chose Lookout as they migrated to the cloud to help implement granular access control for sensitive HR data, achieve compliance, and prevent malware from being uploaded to their infrastructure.

SSE

Cyber Readiness and the Russia-Ukraine War

Today we live in a closely interconnected world, where no one country is less connected than another. As a result, the cyber threats initially directed at Ukrainian government bodies and infrastructure could easily be targeted at other nations, whether they be attacks on supply chains or the deployment of ransomware and other advanced malware.

Risk and Compliance

Breaking the Chain: Are You the Unintended Victim of a Supply Chain Attack?

The alarming part of any software supply chain attack is the domino effect it has. To better understand these attacks and how organizations can better protect themselves, I invited Vodafone security experts Andy Deacon and Verity Carter-Johnson to the Lookout podcast.

Endpoint Security

The Olympics and Burner Phones: Are You Sure About the Safety of That QR Code?

At the Beijing games, QR codes are a huge part of everyday life. While the codes make navigating activities at the Games easy and contactless, it creates opportunities for them to be abused for phishing purposes.

How A Leading University Hospital System Secures Patient Data With Lookout

For this leading university hospital system, the move to the cloud enabled better collaboration but also opened them up to greater risk. See how Lookout helped them protect their sensitive data and meet compliance regulations.

SSE

How a Large Financial Services Firm Protects Against Data Leakage With Lookout Secure Email Gateway

This large financial services firm needed to ensure they were protecting data in email without increasing complexity or limiting productivity. Learn how Lookout helps them identify and secure their sensitive data in email messages.

Zero Trust

Behind the Buzzword: Four Ways to Assess Your Zero Trust Security Posture

While most of us understand Zero Trust conceptually, the path to Zero Trust is a complex and constantly evolving journey. In this blog, I will break down what is and what isn’t Zero Trust.

Zero Trust

Pfizer IP Leak Isn’t Unique. Protect Your Cloud Data With Proactive Encryption.

We often associate breaches with corporate espionage and advanced threat groups, but this Pfizer IP leak exemplifies a rather mundane problem that has been amplified by cloud connectivity: data leakage.

SASE

How to Keep Your Data Secure in Light of Apache Log4j Vulnerabilities

In quick succession in December, The Apache Software Foundation released information on two critical vulnerabilities in its Log4j Java-based library.

Threat Intelligence

Achieving Zero Trust? One Size Does Not Fit All

I recently invited Art Ashmann, Staff EUC Solutions Engineer at VMware to the Lookout Endpoint Enigma podcast to discuss the opportunities and...

Endpoint Security

Mobile app SDKs: The Nesting Dolls of Hidden Risk

With the number of devices being used for work everyday — especially as more employees bring their own devices — it’s impossible for security and IT...

CASB

Don’t Let Attackers Crumble Your Cookies: Electronic Arts Breach Lessons

Leading American video game company Electronic Arts (EA) recently disclosed a breach that resulted in the theft of hundreds of gigabytes of data....

SASE

Code Blue: Healthcare Security in the Age of 5G and Remote Work

Why were hospitals so frequently breached by attacks? To answer that question, I turned to an old friend of Lookout — former CISO Mike Murray. Mike, who’s currently the Founder and CEO of Scope Security, a cybersecurity company focused on providing managed detection and response solutions for healthcare, joined me on Endpoint Enigma to dig deeper into this topic.

ZTNA

Three Actions To Take Based on the Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack

Attackers launched a ransomware attack against the Colonial Pipeline that demonstrated how cybercrime groups exploit diminishing visibility, legacy security systems, and mobile devices to successfully extort money from targets.

Endpoint Security

Device Management Blind to 125 Percent Increase in Financial Sector Phishing Attacks

To better understand how the financial industry reacted to this digital shift, I took a deep dive into the tens of millions of device, app and phishing threat data in the Lookout Security Graph. To get a full rundown of what I uncovered, take a look at the Financial Services Threat Report.

Threat Intelligence

FluBot: Malware as a Service Meets Mobile Phishing

This campaign is the latest example of how attacks are leveraging various mobile-targeting methods to maximize their return. FluBot is a cheap but highly customizable baking trojan. SMS phishing takes advantage of the trust we put on our mobile devices. By fusing the two together, the attacker has created a dangerous apparatus that puts your personal and organizational data at risk.

SASE

Mission Possible: Kiersten Todt on Securing the Public Sector

I recently had the pleasure of having Kiersten Todt, Managing Director of the Cybersecurity Readiness Institute, on the Endpoint Enigma podcast.

Zero Trust

The Zero Trust Lesson Behind Mobile Phishing Against Australian Officials

Australia recently confirmed that a series of mobile phishing attacks were successfully executed on senior officials. Discover more at Lookout today.

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