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

The Last Watchdog

By no means has the cybersecurity community been blind to the complex security challenges spinning out of digital transformation. In the early days of the Internet, coders created new programs for the sake of writing good code, then made it available for anyone to use and extend, license free.

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Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

If you’re like millions of other Americans, your TV is connected to the Internet and uses technology generated from the nation’s power grid. But the energy sector also underpins our emergency and response systems, our hospitals and healthcare, our schools, our businesses, and virtually everything we do as a society.

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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

But it’s coming, in the form of driverless cars, climate-restoring infrastructure and next-gen healthcare technology. 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.

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MY TAKE: How SMBs can improve security via ‘privileged access management’ (PAM) basics

The Last Watchdog

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. A number of big-name IAM vendors are heavily pitching cool advances in enterprise-grade IAM and PAM technologies, he says.

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The Challenges in Building Digital Trust

SecureWorld News

The cyberattack was the cause of this issue, of course, but the real problem at hand was that citizens had no warning that their emergency services could fail this way, nor any estimate for when the systems would be fully restored. There weren't enough users of ARPANET to warrant any real scrutiny of everyone's activities.

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

The Last Watchdog

Last Watchdog recently sat down with Satya Gupta, founder and CTO of Virsec , a San Jose-based supplier of advanced data protection systems. Virsec is a leading innovator of memory protection technologies. From here, it’s possible to hijack control over application servers, access databases, or use APIs to connect to other systems.”.

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MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

The Last Watchdog

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. The software giant’s intent was to make it more convenient and efficient for system administrators to perform Windows upkeep. That’s much easier said than done.