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6 zero trust myths and misconceptions

CSO Magazine

Interest in zero trust is surging, according to IDG’s 2020 Security Priorities Study, with 40% of survey respondents saying they are actively researching zero trust technologies, up from only 11% in 2019, and 18% of organizations indicating they already have zero trust solutions, more than double the 8% in 2018.

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GAO calls out US government agencies: Get your supply chain security act together

CSO Magazine

In December 2020, the US Government Accounting Office (GAO) made 145 recommendations to 23 federal agencies relating to supply chain risks. In May 2021, the GAO’s director of information technology and cybersecurity, Vijay A. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ].

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Top cybersecurity M&A deals for 2022

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That’s up from 94 for the same period in 2020. Many of the 2021 transactions CSO reported were in the identity and cloud security markets, especially toward the end of the year. Recorded Future’s acquisition of SecurityTrails is an early 2022 example, as it adds attack surface monitoring technology to Recorded Future’s offerings.

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging ‘zero trust’ and ‘remote access’ strategies to mitigate ransomware risks

The Last Watchdog

Well, the stats are even scarier with over 50% increase in ransomware attacks in 2021, compared to 2020. About the essayist: Den Jones, CSO at Banyan Security , which supplies s imple, least-privilege, multi-cloud application access technologies. Ransomware? I think you may have heard of it, isn’t the news full of it?

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How Carrier’s product security team delivers the ‘right support for the right product’

CSO Magazine

John Deskurakis had a green field opportunity when he stepped into the role of chief product security officer in April 2020 at Carrier Global Corp. United Technologies, which had spun off Carrier, took the existing product security function with it. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. “We

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Massive threat campaign strikes open-source repos, Sonatype spots new CursedGrabber malware

Security Affairs

likely a pun ) and was published to npm registry around November 11, 2020. as Sonatype-2020-1096, Sonatype-2020-1097, and Sonatype-2020-1109. November 9th, 2020: npm team is notified the same day of malicious packages, and public disclosure is made via blog post. and ac-addon.

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BrandPost: Security Service Edge (SSE) Coming In HOT!

CSO Magazine

Predicting future technological performance is tricky business — we anticipate linear growth, but experience something different. Unfortunately for us forecasters, the dichotomy between expectation and reality makes it difficult to anticipate the exponential nature of technological progress , and that holds us back as change accelerates.