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The U.S. government's CISA and OMB are seeking the public’s opinion on draft zero trust strategic and technical documentation. [Read More]
Howard University closed its physical campus and canceled classes this week after experiencing a ransomware attack. [Read More]
The social media advertising giant has shared an updated payout guideline for vulnerability hunters to better understand its bounty decisions. [Read More]
Israel’s foreign minister has played down criticism of the country’s regulation of the cyberespionage firm NSO Group but vowed to step up efforts to ensure the company’s controversial spyware doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. [Read More]
Mozilla has made public the results of a VPN security audit conducted by Cure53, and only one issue has been assigned a “high severity” rating. [Read More]
Israeli software giant Check Point joins the cybersecurity shopping spree with a definitive deal to acquire Avanan [Read More]
Corellium COO Matt Tait warns that stolen zero-days are changing the economics of mass exploitation and calls for platform vendors to make major changes to address the surge in supply chain attacks. [Read More]
Cybersecurity audits at eight U.S. government agencies show that they made little progress over the past two years. [Read More]
Silicon Valley venture capital firm Advanced Technology Ventures says personal information of private investors compromised in ransomware attack. [Read More]
Guardicore Labs provides full details on CVE-2021-28476, a critical vulnerability in Hyper-V’s virtual network switch driver. [Read More]
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FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Audits
To communicate about our metrics, we need ways that we can ground our experience in terms of “normal” for us; Otherwise, we really can't communicate our metrics effectively with anyone who isn't in a similar environment.
Security is a creature of habit. Security likes things to stay the same. Change brings chaos. Chaos is bad for security. But, we can help control the security of our environment by following good security habits.
A new amendment to Texas' breach notice law is designed to make it easier for Texas entities to comply with Texas law by giving those entities the choice of notifying under Texas law or the law of residents of other states.
While regulations and ensuing IT audits go beyond firewalls and firewall policies, these devices are often a good place to start when it comes to becoming "audit-ready" and gaining continuous visibility of what's going on in your network.
Santa doesn’t care if you were naughty or nice on Christmas Eve – what matters is how you did all year. Security is much the same.
For most CISOs, the pain of an audit is part of the job, but it doesn’t have to be the nightmare that most of the IT community envisions.
Too many IT and risk managers are surprised by security breaches, compromised keys or operational failures that occur from sheer neglect that result when you leave your valuable keys as exposed as a password on a post-it. Hefty, potential fines for failing to comply with regulations are risk enough, but the risks of ignoring these vulnerabilities extend even further.
The vast majority of ISVs are focused on prospecting and lead generation while overlooking potential sales funnel leakage due to piracy. Any vendor that is serious about its longevity needs to know if it has a software piracy problem.
Enjoy this selection of top picks for 2010, listed in no particular order. Happy New Year!
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