The Security Ledger

MAY 4, 2021

Just as it has in other sectors, technology and digital transformation has remade the agriculture sector over the century. Their work is not mostly performed by mechanized, Internet connected and GPS-guided equipment that can sow, tend and harvest crops with astounding speed. Molly Jahn is a Program Manager at DARPA.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

We met at Black Hat 2019 and Schuermann walked me through how Juniper’s security play pivots off the evolving infrastructure of a typical corporate network. Schuermann At Black Hat 2019, the company announced its latest initiatives to block threats at the router level. I’ll keep watch. Talk more soon.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Related: The role of PKI is securing digital transformation That was in 2002. Here are takeaways from our discussion: Preserving history Steinnon told me he got inspired to write Security Yearbook one year ago at RSA 2019, as he sat in a booth signing copies of previous book, Secure Cloud Transformation. I’ll keep watch.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Today, businesses operate in a world where over the last few years, more than 85% of business leaders surveyed by Dell and Dimensional Research say they believe security teams can better enable digital transformation initiatives if they are included early. Q1: What are some of the IT security trends for 2019? Why do you exist?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 1, 2019

Our annual Thales Data Threat Report-Federal Edition , released today, found that 98% of federal agencies are storing sensitive data within a digitally transformative environment. The cloud, arguably not an “emerging” technology, has picked up more speed as a digitally transformative environment for government agencies.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

This underpins the digital transformation imperative most of them face today, and the huge responsibility that rests on the shoulders of the CIO. The vast majority (84%) of enterprises are now using, or planning to use, digitally transformative technologies – such as big data, containers, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 3, 2019

Related: Identity governance issues in the age of digital transformation. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with Mike Kiser, global strategist at SailPoint , an Austin, TX-based supplier of IGA services to discuss this. In this digitally transformed environment, maintaining perimeter defenses still has a place.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

This is so in spite of the fact that machine identities are exploding in numbers and have come to saturate digital transformation. We had a chance to meet again at Black Hat 2019. The number of machines, and machine identities in the form of digital certificates, has only one way to go: up. I agree with Hudson.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

Every workload could communicate to the internet on the following ports: 443/TCP 80/TCP 53/TCP 53/UDP 123/UDP RDP access was authorized from the internet to API workloads in the Corporate network as an entry point for the attacker. server running a Splunk server. Every workload could communicate with the domain controller.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Hear about the smart toaster that got attacked three times within an hour after its IP address first appeared on the Internet? We met at Black Hat USA 2019 , where Baffin Bay touted its cloud-first, full-stack suite of threat protection services. For a full drill down on our conversation, give a listen to the accompanying podcast.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2019

Security information and event management, or SIEM, could yet turn out to be the cornerstone technology for securing enterprise networks as digital transformation unfolds. The path this San Mateo, CA-based vendor is trodding tells us a lot about the unfolding renaissance of SIEMs – and where it could take digital commerce.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2019

Digital transformation is all about high-velocity innovation. Yes, the rapid integration of digital technologies into all aspects of commerce has enabled wonderful new services. I had the chance to sit down at RSA 2019 with ExtraHop Networks , a Seattle-based supplier of NTA systems. But velocity cuts two ways.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 26, 2019

One way to grasp how digital transformation directly impacts the daily operations of any organization – right at this moment — is to examine the company’s application environment. Internet-facing applications and APIs are a prime target for a broad range of sophisticated semantic and syntactic attacks, Link pointed out. “As

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 18, 2019

Imposing just the right touch of policies and procedures towards mitigating cyber risks is a core challenge facing any company caught up in digital transformation. Digital transformation is all about high-velocity innovation and on-the-fly change. Related: Data breaches fuel fledgling cyber insurance market.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2019

I had the chance to visit with CyberGRX CEO Fred Kneip at RSA 2019 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center last week. In a complex and dynamic business environment undergoing digital transformation, this approach to efficient data collection is setting the table for intuitive analytics. Talk more soon.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

This year, we’ve written about what the future holds in terms digital transformations and new and exciting technologies. In our recently launched 2019 Thales Data Threat Report- Global Edition , 60% of organizations say they have been breached at some point in their history, with 30% experiencing a breach within the past year alone.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Most businesses cannot survive without being connected to the internet or the cloud. Yet, the digital connection is also a threat. External attacks on cloud accounts increased by an astounding 630% in 2019. For those privileged users, full isolation from potential internet threats is also available.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2021

It also has become very clear that we won’t achieve the full potential of digital transformation without security somehow getting intricately woven into every layer of corporate IT systems. Early SD-WAN solutions “were built only to replace an MPLS-VPN with an Internet-based VPN,” Ahuja says. I’ll keep watch, and keep reporting.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 14, 2019

With all the talk of escalating cyber warfare , the spread of counterfeit smartphones and new forms of self-replicating malware , I came away from Black Hat USA 2019 (my 15 th ) marveling, once more, at the panache of modern cyber criminals. Another priority of the company is infusing security into the development cycle of DevOps teams.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2019

For a full drill down on our most recent conversation, at RSA 2019 , give a listen to the accompanying podcast. Machine identities are foundational in our digital transformation, because everything that’s going onto the Internet is all built on machines. LW: What’s Venafi’s solution all about?

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

One is the intensely competitive nature of organizations, and the other has to do with the escalating digitalization of commerce. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. At the same time, digital transformation has redoubled the complexity of company networks, catapulting us from Big Data to Very Big Data. Talk more soon.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

I had the chance to meet with him again at Black Hat 2019 in Las Vegas. This skills deficit has been the top worry of IT pros for several years, according to tech consultancy ESG’s annual survey of IT pros; some 53% of the organizations participating in ESG’s 2018 -2019 poll reported a “problematic shortage” of cybersecurity skills.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 7, 2019

In 2019, and moving ahead, look for legacy IT business networks to increasingly intersect with a new class of networks dedicated to controlling the operations of a IoT-enabled services of all types, including smart buildings, IoT-enabled healthcare services and driverless cars. Related: Why the golden age of cyber espionage is upon us.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 19, 2021

Our own research report, the State of Encrypted Attacks Report 2020 , found that there had been a 500 per cent rise in ransomware compared to 2019. Digital transformation and the move to remote work has fundamentally changed the way modern businesses operate.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

That seminal tension still exists today even as the global cybersecurity community is moving to extend MFA as a key security component in much more complex digital systems spinning out of digital transformation. One leading innovator in this space is Tel Aviv-based Silverfort. There’s a lot more coming. I’ll keep watch.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Fileless malware attacks increased by 265% during the first half of 2019. The problems with the RDP is that it suffers from vulnerabilities that can be exploited and the RDP service may rely on internet-facing servers which are easily accessed.". Researchers also found that file-less ransomware skyrocketed and that trend makes sense.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 24, 2019

What does this mean for company decision makers, going forward, especially as digital transformation and expansion of the gig economy deepens their reliance on subcontractors? Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. Innovation has to keep pace.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2019

We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. Changing the SIEM game To top it all off, digital transformation ( DX ) is making everything much more complex. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW million, on average. Talk more soon.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

And the risk factors will only rise exponentially as reliance on cloud infrastructure and Internet of Things (IoT) systems accelerates. It both contributes to — and provides a preview glimpse of — an exciting future in which the full potential of digital transformation becomes realized. NTT endowed its new U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

I had the chance to meet with Randy Watkins, Critical Start’s chief technology officer at Black Hat USA 2019. LW: Why is that not working, especially as we’re undergoing digital transformation? Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

With the world constantly developing and undergoing digital transformation, the devices we all rely on for both our personal and work lives are increasingly manufactured in countries considered potentially or even actively hostile toward our national interests. There is no specific requirement in regards to connectivity.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

What’s happened is this: Digital transformation has raced forward promoting high-velocity software innovation, with only a nod to security. I met with Kim at BlackHat 2019 and had a wide ranging discussion with him. Related: Can Europe’s GDPR restore data privacy? For a full drill down, give a listen to the accompanying podcast.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 22, 2021

Gartner introduced Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) to the market in 2019. Today’s columnist, Mary Blackowiak of AT&T Cybersecurity, explains what security pros need to know about Gartner’s SASE concept. markhillary CreativeCommons Credit: CC BY 2.0.

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McAfee

JUNE 12, 2020

As most of us are aware, digital transformation through big data analytics, online transactions, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-based applications has dramatically changed businesses of all kinds. At the same time, workers have become mobile on a global scale, requiring access to ever larger amounts of data.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

GLIBC keeps common code in one place, thus making it easier for multiple programs to connect to the company network and to the Internet. Ponemon’s 2018 State of Endpoint Security Risk study , for instances, predicts 38% of targeted attacks will use fileless techniques in 2019, up from 35% in 2018 and 30% in 2017.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, digital trust involves several interconnected elements, including: • Security of Systems and Data • Privacy of Data • Transparency of Operation • Accountability when things go wrong • Reliability But why is digital trust suddenly important? What are the origins of the need for a trust framework?

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