IT Security Guru

JUNE 7, 2024

Update Your Software Ensuring that all personnel within your organization maintain their software current is paramount. Security updates are automatically applied when utilizing cloud-based software. Foster accountability among your team by employing software that prompts users to install updates on their individual devices.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 6, 2023

When I asked CISOs about their cyber threat intelligence (CTI) programs about five years ago, I got two distinct responses. For these organizations, threat intelligence programs were nothing more than blocking indicators of compromise (IoCs) with firewalls, endpoint security software, email gateways, or web proxies.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

There are several methods of active defense that companies can utilize to safeguard their networks, and it’s time for CISOs to start picking. Traditional network security solutions, such as firewalls, are not effective at detecting and stopping lateral attack movement – and that’s where the real damage is done.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 30, 2021

Touhill : The Software Engineering Institute and CERT are a world leader in cybersecurity and if you go back and look at the history and the lineage of the organizations, I’ve been engaged with [them] since their inception. One, we work to modernize software development and acquisition, because code is fueling society.

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SC Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

Companies transitioning to the cloud have to think of cybersecurity as more than firewalls, access controls and incident response, and define goals of security that go beyond confidentiality, integrity and availability, said Randy Vickers, chief information security officer for the U.S. Sean Gallup/Getty Images). Technical review.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Locking down web gateways and erecting a robust firewall were considered the be-all and end-all. And so this led to the emergence of software-defined wide-area networking, or SD-WAN. SD-WAN arose in 2014 as a way to use software to manage traffic moving across large networks, especially to-and-from geographically dispersed branches.

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Mitnick Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As a CISO, you're always looking for the next big breakthrough to increase your organization's overall security posture. Next-generation firewalls (NGFW), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and sophisticated anti-virus software are great, but the answer to strong cybersecurity starts with your weakest link: your employees.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Kristin Sanders, CISO for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, revealed how New Mexico’s largest water and wastewater utility has been addressing the security challenge. The same philosophy applies to ABCWUA’s installation of its cloud-based enterprise network security software. Asaavedra32, CC BY-SA 3.0

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SC Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Hugh Thompson, program committee chair of RSA Conference, said that the need to bridge the essential requirements of cybersecurity with the innovation and productivity of software development has never been greater. As a result, many organizations are finding they need someone beyond the CISO to lead this effort at the organizational level.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cisco Secure Firewall integrations. Cisco Secure Firewall has several new partner integrations. CyberArk reduces VPN risk with MFA enforcement on any VPN client that supports RADIUS; including Cisco Secure Firewall. HashiCorp (Terraform) provides infrastructure automation and now supports Secure Firewall ASA.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Security administrator- Already this position is facing a lot of talent scarcity as the job designation needs the person to install, administer and troubleshoot any security software like anti-virus solutions, patch management systems and firewalls- resolving tickets from time to time.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

A foundational approach to cybersecurity empowers CISOs to see abnormalities and block threats before they do damage. These developments have made the perimeter so porous that the old approach of simply hiding behind a firewall and keeping the rest of the world at bay is no longer feasible. by David Ratner, CEO, HYAS ( www.hyas.com ).

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. Now toss in the fact that digital transformation is redoubling software development and data handling complexities.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 20, 2025

That urgency was echoed powerfully in JPMorgan CISO Patrick Opets open letter to SaaS vendors. SaaS Is the New Enterprise Perimeter Weve long known our software supply chains carry risk. Its part of your infrastructure and it deserves the same rigor as anything behind your firewall. That letter stuck with me. And we need to.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Their platform operates as both a web application firewall and run time application self-protection, using machine learning to monitor their customers’ APIs and applications, identify baseline user and application behaviors and over time, learn how to best to detect and block malicious activity.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

Still, in the wrong hands, RDP attacks and vulnerabilities related to remote desktop software are a severe threat. This article looks at the remote desktop protocol, how RDP attacks work, best practices for defense, the prevalence of RDP attacks today, and how remote desktop software vendors are securing their clients.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 14, 2024

Crooks manipulate GitHub’s search results to distribute malware BatBadBut flaw allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows Roku disclosed a new security breach impacting 576,000 accounts LastPass employee targeted via an audio deepfake call TA547 targets German organizations with Rhadamanthys malware CISA adds D-Link multiple (..)

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2025

Check out best practices, recommendations and insights on protecting your cloud environments, OT systems, software development processes and more. Maintain a comprehensive asset inventory, and keep software updated and patched. SBOMs purpose is to provide granular visibility into all software components in your environment.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 15, 2024

In 2017, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a directive to remove Kaspersky software from federal systems, citing fears that the company's products could be used to facilitate espionage and cyberattacks by the Russian government. government's concerns about Kaspersky date back several years. government use of Kaspersky products.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference’s focus on cyber resilience doesn’t mean that organizations should abandon core security defenses like EDR , access control and firewalls , but they should be prepared for the advanced threats that will, at some point, get past them. Read next: Best Incident Response Tools and Software.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 11, 2021

In case you missed them, below is a brief recap of some of the Cisco sessions, including a fight that almost broke out between the Incident Response (IR) team represented by Matt Olney, Talos’ Intel Director, and Wendy Nather, Head of Advisory CISOs. In addition, Matt personally prefers the newer MFA system than the age-old firewall system.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2021

You have systems of internal network accessible from the internet, so potentially, you’ve got internet access and firewall policy issues. But the data bears out that it’s an indicator of much larger problems, which results critical and high severity, software, patching issues and other issues being present.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 11, 2019

ExtraHop’s CISO Jeff Costlow walked me through what’s different about the approach NTA vendors are taking to help companies detect and deter leading-edge threats. Software development today routinely occurs at high velocity in order to build the digital services we can’t live without. Key takeaways: NTA’s distinctions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 13, 2022

Firewalls should be implemented between any wireless networks and the organization’s internal network. Firewall configurations should be implemented to restrict connections between untrusted networks and any systems in the protected information environment to only what is necessary. This includes all approved wireless networks.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 30, 2021

An API enables two pieces of software to communicate with each other. Just think about the different ways you interface with software. Instead of humans interfacing with software, software interfaces with software. This interaction happens more than you think and is most often free. Maps to API1-API10.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

He has been a CISO for 20 years and has extensive global IT and security leadership and transformation experience. He loves strategic planning, risk management, Zero Trust, Software Defined Perimeter, and Self-Sovereign Identity. Arun will present the opening keynote, "The Evolving Role of the CISO."

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 15, 2021

It was by happenstance that analysts at FireEye, a leading supplier of intrusion detection systems, stumbled into a copy of the Sunburst Trojan ever-so-stealthily embedded in FireEye’s own copy of SolarWinds’ Orion network management software. That was on Dec.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 28, 2021

This year’s featured vulnerabilities were: Testing Software Integrity. To kick off the session, SANS Fellow and Director Ed Skoudis touched on the software integrity conundrum. Software distribution prioritizes speed over trust, and the result is a sea of potential vulnerabilities. Excessive Access by Tokens.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The two are addressing major issues like sprawling cloud and software supply chain risks, showing that good companies addressing real needs are having little trouble finding investors. Keep in mind that the typical CISO manages about 75 security tools and applications. Versa’s SASE Story. Customers certainly want more simplicity.

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SC Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Kaseya began the technical work for deployment of the company’s servers that support the software-as-a-service VSA product, after the SaaS servers were taken offline as a precautionary measure following a ransomware attack against on-prem installations.(Sean Sean Gallup/Getty Images). The new IP addresses can be found here.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 9, 2023

Answering this question has placed CISOs on a path towards continuous audit readiness that’s accomplished by automating audit processes, from Scope to Evidence. Protection mechanisms incorporates a wide variety of cyber defenses such as malware, encryption, vulnerability management and firewall technologies.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 14, 2021

CISO/Chief Information Security Officer) are often too concerned about security and not the overall business objectives. Below, we’ll share important strategies that can help cybersecurity teams move business and cybersecurity alignment in the right direction, starting with the first one.

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Cisco Security

JULY 14, 2021

They can also enter through infected websites visited by users, or by simply exploiting known software vulnerabilities at an organization’s network perimeter. However, according to Cisco’s Head of Advisory CISOs, Wendy Nather , there’s a right way and a wrong way to do this.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

The vendor reports show that most attackers want credentials, most malware development is in credential-stealing software, and the market for stolen credentials is booming: Cisco: Found 54% of organizations experienced a cybersecurity incident; and of those incidents, 54% involved phishing and 37% involved credentials stuffing.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 21, 2021

While perimeter defenses like firewalls and antivirus software remain essential elements of comprehensive network defense, stopping 100% of attacks at the perimeter is an impossibility with today’s ever-evolving attack surface.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

Vulnerability management relies on accurate lists of existing systems, software, connections, and security. Related systems, software, and processes should also be noted for the vulnerability. For example, a vulnerability in a wi-fi router firewall configuration may expose Windows 95 machines required to run manufacturing equipment.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As a result, security teams are leveraging security capabilities in the form of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) software to help identify and respond to security threats in real-time. Endpoint and anti-virus software would come a little later. They were also used for data retention and compliance.

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