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2024-06-11 Post a Comment

Cybersecurity at a crossroads: Time to shift to an architectural approach

The need for greater scale, intelligence, and automation is driving massive change in security operations and the SIEM market. byÂ Jon Oltsik Contributing Writer According to ESG research, 45% of cybersecurity professionals believe that security operations are more difficult today than they were two years ago, while another 11% claim that things are about the same. When asked why they felt this way, security pros pointed to a growing attack surface, […]

Cyber security

2024-04-06 Post a Comment

Microsoftâ€™s Security Chickens Have Come Home to Roost

By Ryan Naraine: News analysis:Â SecurityWeek editor-at-large Ryan Naraine reads the CSRB report on Chinaâ€™s audacious Microsoftâ€™s Exchange Online hack and isnâ€™t at all surprised by the findings. The US governmentâ€™s public documentation of Microsoftâ€™s shoddy cybersecurity practices, lax corporate culture and untruthfulness in public communications should come as no surprise to anyone.Â There were dark patterns everywhere. For years, we collectivelyÂ groaned and rolled our eyesÂ as Microsoft shippedÂ faultyÂ andÂ incomplete patches, gutted […]

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Cyber security

2024-03-13 Post a Comment

NSA Releases Top Ten Best Practices For Cloud Environments

ByTushar Subhra Dutta: Threat actors aim at Cloud environmentsÂ because of their wide acceptance and one-stop storage of important information. Exploiting shortcomings in cloud security may enable unauthorized access to sensitive data, interruptions in infrastructure, or earning money. The fact that the systems are highly scalable and interconnected makes them good targets for cyber-attacks. Cybersecurity analysts at the NSA recently released the top ten best security practices for cloud environments. […]

Cyber security

2024-03-10 Post a Comment

NSA shares zero-trust guidance to limit adversaries on the network

By Ionut Ilascu The National Security Agency is sharing new guidance to help organizations limit an adversary’s movement on the internal network by adopting zero-trust framework principles. A zero-trust security architecture requires strict controls for accessing resources on the network, be they inside or outside the physical perimeter, to minimize the impact of a breach. Top StoriesREAD MOREThe Week in Ransomware – March 8th 2024 -Waiting for the BlackCat rebrand […]

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2024-02-09 Post a Comment

Cloud CISO Perspectives: Executive lessons from our response to Reptar

Phil Venables VP, TI Security & CISO, Google Cloud Yousif Hussin Cybersecurity expert Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for January 2024. In this edition, Iâ€™m turning the mic over to Yousif Hussin, who as a member of Googleâ€™s Vulnerability Coordination Center led our response to the recent serious zero-day CPU vulnerability Reptar. He talks about what important lessons executives can learn from how Google responds to critical zero-day […]