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Threat Model Thursday: Architectural Review and Threat Modeling

Adam Shostack

For Threat Model Thursday, I want to use current events here in Seattle as a prism through which we can look at technology architecture review. The cost of a house has risen nearly 25% above the 2007 market peak , and has roughly doubled in the 6 years since April 2012. Seattle has a housing and homelessness crisis.

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A Question of Identity: The Evolution of Identity & Access Management

SecureWorld News

Technology: Technology is the foundation for an IAM program delivery within a layered security architecture. RELATED: Death of the VPN: A Security Eulogy ] VPNs have notably higher operating costs and lower scalability when using device-based architecture. Processes enable Identity to power people-centric security.

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The RISC Deprogrammer

Errata Security

The interesting parts of CPU evolution are the three decades from 1964 with IBM's System/360 mainframe and 2007 with Apple's iPhone. The VAX/68k/x86 architecture decoded external instructions into internal control ops that were pretty complicated, supporting such things as loops. This was anathema of the time. It's horrible.

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Experts discovered a Kernel Level Privilege Escalation in Oracle Solaris

Security Affairs

” The experts discovered that the flaw was first discovered in 2007 and it was publicly disclosed in 2009 during the CanSecWest security conference. The vulnerability is the result of a combination of several arbitrary memory dereference issued and an unbounded memory write vulnerability. ” continues Trustwave.

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Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached TeamViewer in 2016

Security Affairs

The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. “Out of an abundance of caution, TeamViewer conducted a comprehensive audit of its security architecture and IT infrastructure subsequently and further strengthened it with appropriate measures.”

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Why SASE matters and what security pros need to know

SC Magazine

Think of SASE as an architecture model, although sometimes it’s referred to as a concept or framework. Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS): Since 2007, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) have been a staple in network security. However, there are many ways to interpret the SASE architecture and thus, many ways to approach it.

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Why Light Point Security Is Joining the McAfee Team

McAfee

We began developing our remote browser isolation technology to protect organizations from web-based malware way back in 2007. Innovation has always been at the core of Light Point Security. It was an idea that presented challenges, risks, and unknowns. The technology needed to deliver such a solution was still in its infancy.