The Falcon's View

JANUARY 3, 2019

Consider, if you will, that fundamentally we in infosec want people to make better decisions. That's right, it's infosec. From a functional perspective, this means a few very specific things for infosec: 1) We must continue to work in a collaborative and consultative manner with everyone else in the organization.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 23, 2022

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Hackers Begin Exploiting Recent Zyxel Firewalls […]… Read More. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of May 16, 2022.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 8, 2023

When I started, networking owned the firewalls. My goals in InfoSec are similar: to teach the organization how to protect itself. A : Word of mouth and an opportunity to be involved from the ground up in establishing an InfoSec team at a law firm. A : Reconnecting with the Philadelphia InfoSec community.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The company has been honored by the Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards, the Globee Information Technology Awards, TMCNet Zero Trust Security Excellence Awards, Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, Fortress Cybersecurity Awards, and the Global InfoSec Innovator award.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

x firmware, which malicious actors exploited in a cyberattack against the infosec firm last month. . Those unable to install the patch at this time can apply a temporary mitigation technique by enabling their devices’ built-in web application firewall (WAF) feature. Days after SonicWall disclosed the incident on Jan. 31 and Feb.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2022

Experts believe that Russian Gamaredon APT could fuel a new round of DDoS attacks The strange link between Industrial Spy and the Cuba ransomware operation Reuters: Russia-linked APT behind Brexit leak website GitHub: Nearly 100,000 NPM Users’ credentials stolen in the April OAuth token attack Android pre-installed apps are affected by high-severity (..)

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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

No matter how many firewalls or network controls you have in place, the risk of insider threat will always be present. I’ve been in infosec for over 30 years and have had the great privilege of evolving and learning as a cybersecurity executive in a space I love.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Hardening the human firewall. Enlist passionate people across all areas of the organization and not just the IT team to champion security, model best practices, support infosec events and campaigns, and continually raise awareness. In our digital age, cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The vulnerabilities have been reported to HP by the infosec researchers Nick Bloor, an attacker could chain the three issues to achieve SYSTEM privileges on targeted devices and potentially take over them. The IT giant revealed that an attacker could exploit the vulnerabilities to take over Windows systems.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

The directive applies to any networking devices — such as firewalls, routers and load balancers — that allow remote authentication or administration.

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Herjavec Group

MARCH 24, 2022

Internet-facing architecture that is being ASV scanned has grown more complex over the last years with the implementation of HTTPS load balancers, web application firewalls, deep packet inspection capable intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) systems, and next-gen firewalls.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 15, 2021

Related: Integrating ‘pen tests’ into firewalls. There are three main types of penetrations-black box, grey box, and white box which infosec institute defines. In fact, there is evidence that technology grows exponentially fast. Since we are quickly putting out large technologies, security risks always come with this.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 11, 2024

DeSouza has also earned numerous industry accolades, including Top Global CISO by Cyber Defense Magazine, Top 10 InfoSec Professional by OnCon, and induction into the CISO Hall of Fame by the global Cyber Startup Observatory.

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 2, 2021

He founded Herjavec Group, in 2003, introducing the first managed firewall in the Canadian Market. Along with these contributions, Robert is active in a number of impactful infosec initiatives. This is Cyber Defense Magazine’s third year of honoring global InfoSec innovators with the Black Unicorn Awards. Connect with Robert.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Economic effects, including inflationary pressures, have had a broad impact across the InfoSec landscape," Smeaton said. Reanna Schultz is a cybersecurity professional and frequent SecureWorld speaker whose day job is as Team Leader of InfoSec at Garmin. These comments are her own and do not reflect those of her company, necessarily.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

According to author Nimrod Luria in a recent Infosec Island article , “The (hacked) sites appear to have one thing in common: they are all built on the WordPress content management platform.” Use a malware scanner and web application firewall (WAF). Stay current with all WordPress plugin and software updates.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 17, 2022

It was once the case that cybersecurity technology consisted of little more than a firewall and antivirus software. Yes, these advances have meant huge changes for the way that InfoSec operates, there are still many things that can only be managed with human input. Well, it's not quite as simple as that.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meanwhile, InfoSec is the designer and implementor of risk management capabilities (for instance, ensuring the latest technology is deployed and within expected specifications). In Bolotin’s analogy, a corporation (say, Cisco) is the Formula One vehicle, and the business (i.e., executive and functional leaders) races the car on the track.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

» Related Stories Spotlight Podcast: Security Automation is (and isn’t) the Future of Infosec Episode 159: Deep Fakes and Election (in)Security with ZeroFOX Spotlight Podcast: Rethinking Your Third Party Cyber Risk Strategy. Also: Rachel Stockton of the firm LastPass* joins. Read the whole entry. »

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SC Magazine

APRIL 26, 2021

Infosec professionals at the plant must worry about malicious actors potentially sabotaging OT systems using the connected IT systems as an initial vector of compromise. “Now we’re starting to see a convergence of these two into IoT, [although] traditionally the two groups never really worked a whole lot with each other,” said Sanders.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 28, 2021

When boiled down to its essence, InfoSec is all about risk mitigation, and risk is based on probability and impact. If you have a different kind of firewall, if you have a different kind of antivirus, you can get the same intel within the same dashboard. You don’t need to have just Cisco products.

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Andrew Hay

JUNE 29, 2017

Block incoming SMB traffic from the public Internet on port 445 and 139, adding a rule on your border routers, perimeter firewalls, and any intersecting traffic points between a higher security network zone to a lower security network zone. Checking out the new Petya variant – SANS ISC InfoSec Forums.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Developers want to go incredibly fast and infosec wants to be secure even if it slows down development. Infosec must provide the intellectual property and expertise to accelerate development while securing it. fastsecure. fastsecure is the driving force for organizations that will survive and prosper. Speed goes up, security goes down.

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Notice Bored

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

A dubious firewall rule, for example, might be set to 'warn and log only', rather than simply being dropped from the ruleset, the reverse of how new firewall rules can be introduced.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I love using this one to help infosec professionals gauge how bad an incident is. The entire management plane is on the Internet, so if an attacker gets credentials, you can’t stop them with a firewall or by shutting down access to a server. One key phrase that gets hammered into us is “sick or not sick.”

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In a moment you hear from someone who’s been publishing high quality infosec content on YouTube for the last six years and now has over half a million subscribers. Vamosi: There’s a need for more Infosec content.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

With more than 600K followers on YouTube, LiveOverflow is one of infosec’s first social media influencers. In a moment you hear from someone who’s been publishing high quality infosec content on YouTube for the last six years and now has over half a million subscribers. Vamosi: There’s a need for more Infosec content.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

And what parallels might infosec learn from COVID-19? In this episode, Mike Ahmadi draws on his years of experience in infosec, his years hacking medical devices. If you’ve been in the infosec world as long as I have, you have probably encountered Mike Amadhi. Again, maybe infosec can learn from the biological pandemic.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

And what parallels might infosec learn from COVID-19? In this episode, Mike Ahmadi draws on his years of experience in infosec, his years hacking medical devices. If you’ve been in the infosec world as long as I have, you have probably encountered Mike Amadhi. Again, maybe infosec can learn from the biological pandemic.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

Some of the top email protection tools include: Mimecast Secure Email Gateway Barracuda Spam Firewall Proofpoint Enterprise Protection ClearSwift Secure Email Gateway. Some companies that offer phishing simulators include: Infosec IQ Gophish Lucy Simple Phishing Toolkit. Cybersecurity Awareness Training.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These machines are usually the heaviest guarded against attacks: they are protected by firewalls and monitored for suspicious activities. The network perimeter refers to public-facing machines exposed to people outside an organization’s network, like public web servers or even public cloud services.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

We constantly see new threats, and threat vectors, come and go; which puts a tremendous strain on the InfoSec teams that have to protect organizations and businesses from these threats. Cisco Secure Firewall integrations. Cisco Secure Firewall has several new partner integrations. Cisco Secure Firewall version 7.0

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

How to screen for natural infosec talent: Ask for a worst case scenario for any common situation. Street is an industry-respected speaker and analyst and currently is the VP of InfoSec for SphereNY. Markstedter actively contributes to filling the infosec education gap. — Jack Daniel (@jack_daniel) October 10, 2018.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 16, 2023

They typically safeguard web applications with application security tooling or Web Application Firewalls (WAF). Data loss at the API layer needs to be high on the list of priorities for security and privacy teams in addition to protecting sensitive data with SASE, CASB solutions and NextGen firewalls.

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Errata Security

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Infosec is a largely non-technical field. The (hypothetical) reason is that your organization immediately put a filter for port 22 on the firewalls, scanned the network for all SSH servers, and patched the ones they found. People learn a topic only as far as they need to regurgitate the right answer on a certification test.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

“The infosec industry is always trying to distinguish [the work] of one APT group from another. . “From what they chat about we can see this is a very competitive industry, where companies in this space are constantly poaching each others’ employees and tools,” Danowski said. But that’s getting harder to do.”

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Pentester Academy

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Also, some important actions could save you from this type of advanced attack: Take a backup of all your data Install Antivirus Software & Firewalls Keep All Systems And Software Updated References 1. We must keep the Windows operating system fully updated and never download or execute doubtful/untrusted executables.

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