The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

It’s the glue holding digital transformation together. Related: A primer on ‘credential stuffing’ APIs are the conduits for moving data to-and-fro in our digitally transformed world. APIs are literally everywhere in the digital landscape, and more are being created every minute. I’ll keep watch.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 26, 2020

Doing authentication well is vital for any company in the throes of digital transformation. Digital commerce would fly apart if businesses could not reliably affirm the identities of all humans and all machines, that is, computing instances, that are constantly connecting to each other across the Internet.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

The Rise of the Bad Bots madhav Tue, 04/23/2024 - 05:13 Imperva's annual Bad Bot Report is always a fascinating – albeit alarming – insight into the nature of non-human internet traffic. The 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report is no different, revealing that bots made up nearly half (49.6%) of all internet traffic last year. in 2022 to 39.6%

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Defined as the set of Internet assets relevant to an organization’s cybersecurity posture, including everything from digital assets like websites and remote networks to applications and servers. The Acceleration of Digital Transformation and Connected Devices. ASM in the Current Landscape.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2021

Related: Why PKI will endure as the Internet’s secure core. And PKI , of course, is the behind-the-scenes authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. There are numerous ways for a bad actor to access a targeted email account. Most of us, by now, take electronic signatures for granted.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 17, 2020

Without them digital transformation would never have gotten off the ground. This was possible because APIs – the conduits that enable two software applications to exchange information – are open and decentralized, exactly like the Internet. Application Programming Interfaces – APIs. By design, GET APIs can’t do very much.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2021

Meanwhile, 64 percent saw value in improving user experiences and 21 percent said it could help achieve digital transformation. Password abuse emerged as a criminal specialty shortly after the decision got made in the 1990s to jump start the commercial Internet using a security framework built on shared secrets.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 31, 2022

Advanced VM tools and practices are rapidly emerging to help companies mitigate a sprawling array of security flaws spinning out of digital transformation. Digital transformation has spawned a cascade of nuanced, abstract vulnerabilities – and they’re everywhere. That’s changing — dramatically.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

When the popular streaming audio service went offline globally, last August, we saw a glimpse of just how tenuous digital transformation sometimes can be. We discussed the work DigiCert has been doing to strategically automate certificate management as we get deeper into digital transformation. Ask Spotify.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The threat intelligence platforms and detection and response systems installed far and wide, in SMBs and large enterprises alike, simply are not doing a terrific job at accounting for how APIs are facilitating multi-staged network breaches. Meanwhile, the best security tooling money can was never designed to deal with this phenomenon.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 24, 2022

Companies in the throes of digital transformation, and especially post Covid19, have never been more motivated to adapt a new authentication paradigm – one that eliminates shared secrets. Password abuse at scale arose shortly after the decision got made in the 1990s to make shared secrets the basis for securing digital connections.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 11, 2018

We’re undergoing digital transformation , ladies and gentlemen. As such, Hudson argues persuasively that the root of the matter comes down to the need for organizations to keep a much closer account of access logons and encryption keys. LW: Can you frame what’s going on with identities when it comes to digital transformation?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 25, 2019

Without APIs there would be no cloud computing, no social media, no Internet of Things. APIs are the glue that keeps digital transformation intact and steamrolling forward. APIs have been a cornerstone of our digital economy from the start. But APIs also comprise a vast and continually-expanding attack surface.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The attackers have a vast, pliable attack surface to bombard: essentially all of the externally-facing web apps, mobile apps and API services that organizations are increasingly embracing, in order to stay in step with digital transformation. One of the most intensive uses of criminal botnets is account takeovers.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2021

As digital transformation kicks into high gear, it’s certainly not getting any easier to operate IT systems securely, especially for small- and medium-sized businesses. Some context: privileged accounts first arose 20 years ago as our modern business networks took shape. A few key takeaways: How SMBs got here.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

But that does little to address fresh exposures spinning out of digital transformation, at the app development and app production side of the house. Companies are diving off the cliff into hybrid cloud networks and Internet of Things systems. Containerized firewall Cleaning up traffic at the router level makes good sense.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

Related : SMBs are ill-equipped to deal with cyber threats Without a cohesive cybersecurity framework, SMBs are falling further behind as digital transformation, or DX, ramps up. Embracing digital transformation becomes even more of a challenge without a dedicated platform to address vulnerabilities.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

Extending ‘digital trust’ As DigiCert and Oracle separately headed down these paths, digital transformation shifted into high gear and massive interconnectivity built off of wide distribution of ephemeral APIs took center stage. And that was the design point we gave them.” I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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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. Such attacks can create or takeover accounts, detonate reputation bombs, scrape content, deny inventory and carry out extortion variants.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Over the past year, I’ve had several deep conversations parsing how APIs have emerged as a two-edged sword: APIs accelerate digital transformation, but they also vastly expand the attack surface of modern business networks. -based supplier of networking technology. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 3, 2019

Related: Identity governance issues in the age of digital transformation. In this digitally transformed environment, maintaining perimeter defenses still has a place. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. Compliance matters.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2019

The firings came as a result of a massive data breach which routed through an HVAC contractor’s compromised account. But they did so without taking into account the hockey-stick rise in reliance on third-party suppliers. When Target fired both its CEO and CIO in 2014, it was a wake-up call for senior management. Talk more soon.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

They outlined why something called attribute-based encryption, or ABE, has emerged as the basis for a new form of agile cryptography that we will need in order to kick digital transformation into high gear. As we press ahead into our digital future, however, we’ll also need to retool the public-key-infrastructure.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Crucially, this includes accounting for the cybersecurity posture of third-party partners. This seems very basic, yet it is something many organizations in the throes of digital transformation have left in disarray. In addition, every DoD contractor must conduct, at the very least, an annual self-assessment. Hopefully, CMMC 2.0

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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

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. When it comes to verifying the identity of both human and machine accounts, Silverfort takes an umbrella view.

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Hot for Security

MAY 25, 2021

.” Helping millions cope with conditions of the new normal, the digital world has become an indispensable tool that continues to develop while both hurting and helping society. The Internet seems to be the indispensable medium in which we live, and at the same time, it has become an extension of our mind.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Every aspect of human life is influenced and changed by machines — from visiting the doctor, to purchasing online, to accessing bank accounts, to flying on an airplane. We count on the digital world which consists of many millions of machines and machines are basically software (1). Mon, 10/10/2022 - 08:15. What’s new here?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2020

Related: How ‘credential stuffing’ enables online fraud As a result, some CEOs admit they’ve stopped Tweeting and deleted their LinkedIn and other social media accounts – anything to help reduce their organization’s exposure to cyber criminals. A handful of states have imposed business certification requirements on top of that.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 17, 2020

Indusface seeks to enable its customers to account for vulnerabilities not just in the live environment, but also when software is being developed and tested. When it comes to security, you should start by assuming that any application intended to be consumed over the Internet will have risks. Don’t try to do all of this by yourself.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 13, 2022

The range of items will vary per company and vertical, but the term is very important as we continue to embark on digital transformations and work from home and work from anywhere initiatives. In order to make all appropriate decisions above, data from accounts, applications, the environment, device, etc.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Google, Facebook and Amazon have gotten filthy rich doing one thing extremely well: fixating on every move each one of us makes when we use our Internet-connected computing devices. Like most other pressing cybersecurity challenges today, the problem is rooted in digital transformation. Related: Protecting web gateways.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As we ride the biggest digital wave in history, the internet has become fundamental to how society maintains livelihoods, conducts business, and stays connected. More than just security, it calls for transparency, accountability, social responsibility, resiliency, and privacy. A Trust Benchmark for Digital Transformation.

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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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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. The team then uploaded a Sliver agent to C:ProgramDataAmazon and executed it.

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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. A common technique to achieve persistence is to leverage stolen account logons, especially ones that give access to privileged accounts. This is where PowerShell comes back into play.

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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. Software development today routinely occurs at high velocity in order to build the digital services we can’t live without. Practicing restraint.

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