The Last Watchdog

MAY 13, 2020

Chief Information Security Officers were already on the hot seat well before the COVID-19 global pandemic hit, and they are even more so today. They must rally the troops to proactively engage, day-to-day, in the intricate and absolutely vital mission of preserving the security of IT assets, without stifling innovation.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 11, 2022

Applying Identity to DevSecOps Processes. Identity Means Secrets. You prove identity by validating credentials; secrets are the digital credentials used for that purpose. With the proper validation, you can authenticate a user (human or machine) and authorize them to access privileged services, accounts, and applications.

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Authentication Passwords Password Management Architecture 109

Anton on Security

APRIL 28, 2022

What’s Next?”” (the seemingly self-centered title was suggested by CardinalOps who organized the webinar). Q: When do you think the industry will understand what XDR entails? The “better EDR” crowd keeps taking past “integrated SIEM-like thing” crowd who both talk past “EDR+NDR” crowd. Hence I am guessing “never.”

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 17, 2023

To get network protection where it needs to be, legacy cybersecurity vendors have begun reconstituting traditional security toolsets. The overarching goal is to try to derive a superset of very dynamic, much more tightly integrated security platforms that we’ll very much need, going forward.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

Identity thieves who specialize in running up unauthorized lines of credit in the names of small businesses are having a field day with all of the closures and economic uncertainty wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. But the same crime can be far more costly and damaging when thieves target small businesses.

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Identity Theft Small Business Energy and Utilities Computers and Electronics 353

Daniel Miessler

MARCH 20, 2022

I’m starting a new series with this 2022 edition where I think about what Information Security could or should look like in the distant future—say in 2050. I’m doing this for fun—basically to see how dumb I look later—but I also hope it’ll drive interesting discussions on where things should go.

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InfoSec Insurance Engineering Technology 180

Jane Frankland

JUNE 7, 2023

Have you ever experienced (or witnessed) someone making a comment that seemed harmless, but it left you feeling uneasy? Or maybe you’ve been in a situation where someone’s behaviour towards you or someone else was just plain toxic? Just think about it.

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Education Accountability Cybersecurity Internet 130

Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection.

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Jane Frankland

AUGUST 10, 2023

The need for hiring cybersecurity professionals is ever growing. You can discover the full detail by accessing this year’s report which has been performed by Zuairia Chowdhury as an IN Security initiative. You can also access last year’s report which was performed by Raisa Begum Begun. Now for the bad news.

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Education Cybersecurity Government Technology 130

NetSpi Executives

MAY 1, 2024

Organizations require visibility into assets that need to be protected, prioritization of issues to remediate first, and easy-to-understand reporting on proactive security measures. NetSPI has been tackling these issues head on and is prepared to lead the path forward with proactive security.

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Penetration Testing Technology Healthcare Cyber Attacks 59

Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

You might groan just thinking about it, or maybe you are filled with the optimistic nostalgia of all the great things you set out to accomplish. The post Identity and Access Management – Who You Are & Where You Need to Be appeared first on The State of Security.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. According to the attackers, this was a configuration issue on an access point T-Mobile used for testing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Identity management is a process that ensures that individuals have appropriate access to technology resources. Simply put, it allows a person to have access to any system, network, or application through an authentication and authorization program. In a nutshell, most of the economy relies on proper identity management.

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Passwords Encryption Authentication Risk 132

Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cybersecurity can often feel like a game of cat and mouse where cyber attackers and defenders engage in a chase, with one party trying to outsmart the other. Cloud-native technologies like containerisation and serverless computing will continue to gain traction, enabling scalability and cost-effectiveness in managing digital infrastructure.

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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. So, how do you know if it’s happening?

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Passwords Phishing Password Management Accountability 245

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Authentication and access management increasingly perceived as core to Zero Trust Security. While many consider that remote access to corporate resources and data as the key disruption, security teams had to face many more challenges. State of Multi-Factor Authentication. Tue, 09/14/2021 - 05:52.

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Authentication Cloud Migration IoT Technology 153

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Law enforcement also had access to data stolen from the victims of the ransomware operation, a circumstance that highlights the fact that even when a ransom is paid, the ransomware gang often fails to delete the stolen information. By attacking the.gov sector you can know exactly if the FBI has the ability to attack us or not.”

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 8, 2021

This was accomplished by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Kaseya VSA, a network management tool widely used by managed service providers (MSPs) as their primary tool to remotely manage IT systems on behalf of SMBs. Related: The targeting of supply chains. Neither will come easily or cheaply.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Have you been thinking about digital trust? How do you trust an algorithm that's making thousands of decisions a second when you don't even know how it works? And how do you trust a company that is silently tracking your movements every day, collecting data on you, and not telling you what they do with that data?

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Technology Artificial Intelligence Cybercrime Government 86

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 9, 2023

Technology oversight is a common mandate across IT and security frameworks and compliance specifications, but achieving that oversight is difficult. Beyond event logging, where is no established way to aggregate, correlate, and analyze this data, which exists within different departments, divisions, and management tools.

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Policy Compliance Technology Digital transformation Encryption 142

Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

This article is part of a series showcasing learnings from the Secure Software Summit. Zero Trust can improve security, reduce risks, and give organizations greater confidence in the integrity of their IT infrastructure and applications. On the contrary, under Zero Trust you constantly assume your environment has been breached.

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Software Architecture Energy and Utilities Risk 104

Security Boulevard

JUNE 10, 2022

Identity and Access Management in Multi-Cloud Environments. There are several challenges to implementing secure IAM practices across a multi-cloud environment. Machine identities are growing faster than human identities. IAM tools control access, not activity. brooke.crothers.

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Architecture Encryption Risk Technology 76

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Featured Partners: Next-Gen Firewall (NGFW) Software Learn More Table of Contents Toggle How Next-Generation Firewalls Work Who Needs a Next-Gen Firewall? A next generation firewall (NGFW) performs deep packet inspection to check the contents of the data flowing through the firewall. which is known as the packet header. Application 4.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 29, 2021

Due to limitations on physical contact and lockdowns around the globe, citizens – often out of necessity – have had to turn to the digital equivalent of services they previously accessed in person. The same is true of Queensland in Australia, where the state’s first Digital License App was recently piloted before deployment. .

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Government Mobile Data privacy Healthcare 121

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. That’s a crazy long time for an independent media outlet these days, but then again I’m bound to keep doing this as long as they keep letting me.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As one example, your wish list/wedding registry makes it easy for friends and family to get you gifts that you actually want, but could also be used to find out products/services you’re interested in as pretext (setting the scene) of a conversation or phishing email trying to gather more. If the above sounds scary – don’t panic!

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Passwords Accountability Media Password Management 108

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains. Bottom line: Prepare now based on risk.

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Cybersecurity CISO Government Technology 140

IT Security Guru

JUNE 30, 2021

The email to your teammates stating that you were “working from home” instantly had new meaning. Working from home resulted in additional risk management and security challenges for employees, executive leadership, and information technology (IT) teams. What is Single Sign-on and How Does it Work.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

For the officer on @BBCNews just now to claim that the computer on Greens desk was accessed and therefore it was Green is utterly preposterous !! Yesterday I had a bunch of people point me at a tweet from a politician in the UK named Nadine Dorries. — Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) December 2, 2017. but the topic kept coming up.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

Director Product Management. Identity credentials and source code are critical assets that can create major risks for your organization when exposed by breaches of third-party cloud service companies that provide identity management and software composition analysis. By Arun Balakrishnan, Sr.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

During 2022 over 65% of organizations expected security budgets to expand. During 2022 over 65% of organizations expected security budgets to expand. As we look forward to 2023 a number of emerging trends are top security areas that executives should focus. Cyber attacks and breaches continue to rise with no end in sight.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 6, 2021

To Achieve Zero Trust Security, Trust The Human Element. With more employees working remotely than ever before due to COVID-19, businesses are at greater risk from a cyber-attack with workers accessing systems outside of the usual company network. Angus Macrae, Head of Cyber Security. Thu, 05/06/2021 - 08:41.

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Social Engineering Authentication Passwords Technology 96

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 is precisely what secrets management ensures. What is secrets management?

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A few people took some of the points I made in those posts as being contentious, although on reflection I suspect it was more a case of lamenting that we shouldn't be in a position where we're still dependent on passwords and people needing to understand good password management practices in order for them to work properly.

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Passwords Authentication Accountability Mobile 261

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

state to freeze and unfreeze your credit file and that of your dependents, a process that blocks identity thieves and others from looking at private details in your consumer credit history. Previously, states allowed the bureaus to charge a confusing range of fees for placing, temporarily thawing or lifting a credit freeze.

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Identity Theft Banking Insurance Marketing 277

eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2023

The concept of zero trust has been around since 2010, when Forrester Research analyst John Kindervag created the zero trust security model. The only exception, it seems, has been cloud service providers, who boast an enviable record when it comes to cybersecurity, thanks to rigorous security practices like Google’s continuous patching.

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Insurance Cyber Insurance Architecture Authentication 107

CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 27, 2021

Due to limitations on physical contact and lockdowns around the globe, citizens – often out of necessity – have had to turn to the digital equivalent of services they previously accessed in person. The same is true of Queensland in Australia, where the state’s first Digital License App was recently piloted before deployment. .

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Government Mobile Data privacy Healthcare 98