The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

Log4j is the latest, greatest vulnerability to demonstrate just how tenuous the security of modern networks has become. Related: The exposures created by API profileration. By no means has the cybersecurity community been blind to the complex security challenges spinning out of digital transformation.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 24, 2024

Stronger Together: Join Thales & Imperva at RSA Conference 2024 Where the World Talks Security madhav Thu, 04/25/2024 - 05:17 In today’s increasingly connected and digital world, the cybersecurity industry stands as a bastion against a relentless tide of threats. Nation states pivot with chilling precision towards any goal in their sights.

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

As if cybersecurity weren’t already a red-letter issue, the United States and, most likely, its allies–in other words, the global economic community–are in Iran’s cyber sites, a major player in cyber warfare and politically divisive disinformation campaigns. More Disinformation. There were no American casualties.).

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

nuvola is the new open-source cloud security tool to address the privilege escalation in cloud environments. nuvola is the new open source security tool made by the Italian cyber security researcher Edoardo Rosa ( @_notdodo_ ), Security Engineer at Prima Assicurazioni. Cloud Security Context.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 27, 2021

Of course, there are many traditional and emerging ways to protect and secure your business: Employing cybersecurity analysts, auditors or specialists Implementing a comprehensive […]… Read More. The post Creating Cloud Security Policies that Work appeared first on The State of Security.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 13, 2023

Individual employees often adopt shadow IT for their convenience and productivity—they feel they can work more efficiently or effectively using their personal devices and preferred software, instead of the company’s sanctioned IT resources. To avoid IT policies that they find restrictive. Here are a few tips: Create a shadow IT policy.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Stateful inspection is a firewall feature that filters data packets based on the context of previous data packets. This important feature uses header information from established communication connections to improve overall security. Table of Contents Toggle How Does Stateful Inspection Work?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the very beginning of the cloud computing era, security has been the biggest concern among enterprises considering the public cloud. In addition, 95 percent of survey respondents confirmed that they are extremely to moderately concerned about public cloud security. What is cloud security?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

AT&T said the data exposed did not include sensitive information, such as credit card or Social Security numbers, or account passwords, but was limited to “Customer Proprietary Network Information” (CPNI), such as the number of lines on an account. Here’s a primer on why you might want to do that, and how.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Table of Contents Toggle How Packet Filtering Works Principles of Packet Filtering Rules 5 Advantages of Packet Filtering 5 Disadvantages of Packet Filtering 4 Types of Packet Filtering Use Cases for Packet Filtering Bottom Line: Packet Filtering Is the Start for Firewall Protection How Packet Filtering Works Every time two IT assets (e.g.,

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

A woman speaking on a mobile phone walks past a cloud computing presentation ahead of the CeBIT technology trade fair in 2012. Cloud-based managed services are increasingly popular among application developers, but can be maliciously exploited if not properly secured.(Sean Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In the digital era, cloud computing has become synonymous with agility and scalability for businesses and individuals. However, critical security risks and threats inherent in cloud environments come alongside the myriad benefits. Who’s Responsible for Security in the Cloud?

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Cisco Security

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This industry north star is driving different architectures, frameworks, and solutions to reduce an organization’s risk and improve their security posture. With many vendors offering impressive security capabilities in cybersecurity, there is a wealth of information that can be shared. OpenID Connect. OpenID Connect.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2022

Predicting that more enterprises will suffer a cloud data breach in 2022 is not exactly going out on a limb. Predicting that more enterprises will suffer a cloud data breach in 2022 is not exactly going out on a limb. Cloud Security Myth No. 1: The Cloud Is a Data Center in the Sky.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 29, 2019

based PerCSoft is a cloud management provider for Digital Dental Record (DDR), which operates an online data backup service called DDS Safe that archives medical records, charts, insurance documents and other personal information for various dental offices across the United States. West Allis, Wis.-based

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Anton on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

So, yes, this is a big part of why security is fun, but also tricky. Phil’s 8 megatrends blog reminds us about this by calling one of his cloud megatrends “Simplicity: Cloud as an abstraction machine.” Specifically: “A common concern about moving to the cloud is that it’s too complex. Well, let’s find out!

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This week I had the privilege to speak with Tom Gann, our Chief Public Policy officer and he had some interesting things to say on the cyber security issues that are shaping public policy dialogue in Washington DC and other capitals around the world, and much much more. Teaching tennis.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

The need to rapidly switch to remote work environments created pressure for IT teams worldwide, but doing this while keeping their organizations safe and adequately protected was one that many unfortunately overlooked. It is important for companies to ensure their information is secure regardless of where their employees are working.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 16, 2024

Beyond being a set of security protocols, data loss prevention policies are a strategic approach that involves identifying, monitoring, and protecting sensitive data throughout its lifecycle. This involves defining clear policies, procedures, and data ownership throughout its lifecycle.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2023

Michael Gregg, CISO, State of North Dakota: " One of the things that most excites me about the new framework is the addition of the 'govern' function. Leader, Government Strategy, Policy, & Partnerships, Mandiant, now part of Google Cloud : "Mandiant is pleased to see the draft version of NIST's CSF 2.0, 19, Detroit on Sept.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2021

Upon execution, the malware creates a hidden folder , called “.po1kitd.thumb”, It does this to create a hidden folder, called “.po1kitd.thumb”, The malware creates a hidden file called “.po1kitd-2a4D53” “The file is locked to the current running process essentially creating a mutex. “po1kitd-update-k”).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 17, 2022

Keeping information secure from any theft activities in the digital world is necessary. These issues will often arise when a company fails to ensure proper security measures and when companies don’t process sensitive data properly. Note: here is an example of a privacy policy regarding how a company collects private data. .

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 22, 2023

How Thales and Red Hat Secure Kubernetes Data in a 5G World madhav Fri, 06/23/2023 - 05:03 The Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) that operate 5G mobile broadband networks face many challenges related to their highly distributed infrastructure. Kubernetes clusters can span hosts across on-premise, public, private, or hybrid clouds.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

Compared to other operating systems, Linux patch management is unique because of its open-source nature, which enables a sizable community of developers and security professionals to find vulnerabilities, examine the code, and submit patches. Microsoft releases patches on Patch Tuesday, a scheduled monthly update release.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 30, 2023

How Thales and Red Hat Secure Kubernetes Data in a 5G World madhav Wed, 08/30/2023 - 07:29 Service providers that operate 5G networks face many challenges related to their highly distributed infrastructure. Securing data at rest within Kubernetes is of the utmost importance, as unauthorized access or breaches could have severe implications.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 5, 2023

To aid in reducing IT labor requirements and to improve security, Extreme Networks created their ExtremeControl network access solution. ExtremeControl ExtremeControl builds off of Extreme Networks’ core network management capabilities to enable granular policy controls over both wired and wireless networks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 16, 2022

In a previous blog post, I discussed how The White House Executive Order issued on May 12, 2021 laid out new, rigorous government cyber security standards for federal agencies. Let’s explore how this type of solution works below. Cloud Security. It’s not always that easy, however. What Are Cyber Packs?

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SecureWorld News

MAY 4, 2021

The Pennsylvania Department of Health says it will not renew its contract with the vendor conducting the state's contact tracing efforts. How would all of this health information be kept private and secure? You hope your information is private and secure, but you never really know. Reaction to this Shadow IT data breach.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. This adds a vital extra layer of security. Also read: Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future. Such complexity is normally shielded from users.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

The initiatives that stand out the most — critical infrastructure security standards, a national data privacy and security law, and liability for security failures — will likely take time and the support of Congress to implement. ” Those fundamental shifts are focused on two core priorities.

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Anton on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As we discussed in “The Cloud trust paradox: To trust cloud computing more, you need the ability to trust it less” , there are situations where the encryption key really does belong off the cloud and so trust is externalized. Now, some of you may say “but we have the data that really should not go to the cloud.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 16, 2023

Enterprise Secrets Management Explained: Best Practices, Challenges, and Tool Selection madhav Thu, 08/17/2023 - 06:28 Whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises, modern applications and integrations have accelerated the need for digital secrets. This includes sensitive data such as passwords, encryption keys, APIs, tokens, and certificates.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

Typically, these vulnerabilities result in remote code execution or denial-of-service attacks, posing major dangers to users’ data security. In addition to securing internal assets, you also need to ensure SaaS data is protected. Check out our article on SaaS security checklist and learn how to create one.

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SC Magazine

MAY 1, 2021

Brian Levine is senior director of product security at Axway, a global security engineering organization delivering training, tools, processes and DevSecOps practices for secure applications and cloud services to the enterprise market. Click here to see the full list of 2021 SC Award finalists.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

In recent years, as APIs proliferated the enterprise, their existence gave cause to some major security concerns. Organizations first looked to augment their existing web application security tools and processes to “address” API security. The cost of not knowing what good is. The more elements missing, the more risky the bridge.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Agriculture may not be the first industry you associate with cybersecurity problems, but we all need to aware of the risks created by connecting this ancient part of our food supply chain to the Internet. The state of IoT is poor enough as it is, security wise. ” Internet of Things. ” Internet of Things.

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Pen Test Partners

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Even the more security-aware people with bolstered Microsoft 365 (M365) configurations are coming up blank as to how their comprehensive MFA policies have been bypassed. I’ll also cover the steps you can take to increase your security to try and stop your team falling foul of them.

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