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NEW TECH: Exabeam positions SIEM technology to help protect IoT, OT systems

The Last Watchdog

Their capacity to ingest threat feeds is becoming more relevant with the rise of IoT (Internet of Things) systems and the vulnerabilities of old and new OT (operational technology). I spoke with Trevor Daughney, vice president of product marketing at Exabeam , at the RSA 2020 Conference in San Francisco recently.

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RSAC insights: How the ‘CIEM’ framework is helping companies manage permissions glut

The Last Watchdog

Consider that global spending on cloud infrastructure services jumped 32 percent to nearly $40 billion in the last quarter of 2020. And they are also turning to advanced identity and access management ( IAM ) technologies and adopting concepts like zero trust network access ( ZTNA ) to try to close this gap. We’re on a good path.

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CSC Research Finds Third Parties Continue to Lay Groundwork for Malicious Activity Among Thousands of COVID-Related Domains

CyberSecurity Insiders

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– CSC , a world leader in business, legal, tax, and domain security, today announced key findings from its new report, which found that nearly 500,000 web domains were registered since January 2020 containing key COVID-related terms. At CSC, we believe domain security intelligence is power.

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SHARED INTEL: FireMon survey shows security lags behind fast pace of hybrid cloud deployments

The Last Watchdog

“It doesn’t seem like we’ve moved the needle on security at all,” says Tim Woods, vice president of technology alliances at FireMon, the leading provider of automated network security policy management systems. I had the chance to visit with Woods at RSAC 2020 in San Francisco recently. I’ll keep watch.

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Ransomware, BEC and Phishing Still Top Concerns, per 2021 Threat Report

Webroot

Although cybercriminal activity throughout 2020 was as innovative as ever, some of the most noteworthy threat activity we saw came from the old familiar players, namely ransomware, business email compromise (BEC) and phishing. By September 2020, the average ransom payment peaked at $233,817. “In

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More Than 90 Percent of Malware in Q2 Came Via Encrypted Traffic: WatchGuard

eSecurity Planet

percent of all malware detected on networks of WatchGuard Technologies customers in the second quarter came over encrypted connections, raising the security risk for the 80 percent of such organizations that lack processes for decrypting and scanning HTTPS traffic for threats. A surprising 91.5

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Demand, CyberInsurance, and Automation/AI Are the Future of InfoSec

Daniel Miessler

At some point, there will be a crossover between the increased demand for trained cybersecurity people and the rising efficiency of security technologies and security automation—assisted by more artificial intelligence. Here’s my talk on this topic at DEFCON in 2020. And this isn’t fantasy.

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