The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Spirent refers to this as “data breach emulation,’’ something David DeSanto, Spirent’s threat research director, told me is designed to give companyies a great advantage; it makes it possible to see precisely how the latest ransomware or crypto mining malware would impact a specific network, with all of its quirky complexity.

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Penetration Testing Firewall Data breaches Malware 133

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Related: The case for a microservices firewall Netflix and Airbnb are prime examples of companies moving to single-page applications, or SPAs , in order to make their browser webpages as responsive as their mobile apps. APIs are the conduits for moving data to-and-fro in our digitally transformed world.

Mobile 140

Mobile Digital transformation Data breaches Firewall 140

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

How can it be that marquee enterprises like Capital One, Marriott, Facebook, Yahoo, HBO, Equifax, Uber and countless others continue to lose sensitive information in massive data breaches? Here are key takeaways: Security benefits Protect the data itself. Equifax lost data for 148 million citizens. billion by 2022.

Encryption 159

Encryption Digital transformation Data breaches Banking 159

The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

New cloud PaaS services, such as shared storage, containers, database services and serverless functions etc. typically cannot have a security agent running on them, so it’s left up to the organization to securely configure these services. And shared storage breaches are by no means limited to Amazon customers.

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