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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

Log4j, aka Log4Shell, blasted a surgical light on the multiplying tiers of attack vectors arising from enterprises’ deepening reliance on open-source software. It’s notable that open-source software vulnerabilities comprise just one of several paths ripe for malicious manipulation. Related: The exposures created by API profileration.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

Here are my takeaways: Skills deficit Over the past 20 years, enterprises have shelled out small fortunes in order to stock their SOCs with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. Digital transformation has only exacerbated this security skills gap.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

Microsoft, supplier of the Windows operating system used ubiquitously in enterprise networks, recently disclosed that fully 70% of all security bugs pivot off what the software giant refers to as “memory safety issues.”. Thus, memory attacks unfold only when the application is executing, and then they disappear without a trace.

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Machine Identities are Essential for Securing Smart Manufacturing

Security Boulevard

Overlooking IoT security challenges may interrupt company operations and negate the positive digital transformation effects. Clearly, traditional firewalls and antivirus systems will not be sufficient; the complex IIoT infrastructure demands something more advanced. Guest Blogger: Anastasios Arampatzis.

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NEW TECH: ‘Micro-segmentation’ security vendor Guardicore seeks to disrupt firewall market

The Last Watchdog

Agile software innovation is the order of the day. Wonderous digital services are the result. It’s a way to replace the clunky controls that were designed to cordon off certain zones of on-premises IT infrastructure with sleek, software-defined controls that are more fitting for the hybrid cloud networks that will take us forward.

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