Reducing misconfigurations, monitoring malicious activity, and preventing unauthorized access are foundational activities necessary to ensure security and compliance of applications and data in the cloud. As criminals become more sophisticated in their abilities to exploit cloud misconfiguration vulnerabilities,...
The distributed workforce, combined with the need to modernize and improve operational efficiency, has reframed digital transformation priorities and introduced new areas of risk to today's enterprise. In light of ongoing macroeconomic demands, the CISO is facing increasing pressure to deliver value.
If...
Banking institutions are seeing a significant spike in multi-channel financial crimes. But Duncan Ash and Julio Gomez of Splunk say data and analytics can be key differentiators in the effort to protect sensitive financial data.
In January 2020, an independent research firm, commissioned by Veeam, completed a survey of 1,550 enterprises across 18 countries on what their data protection challenges and goals were. That research included 217 financial services organisations.
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The results and insights from the...
Privileged Access Management (PAM) is one of the most important areas of risk management and security in any organization.
Privileged accounts have traditionally been given to administrators to access critical data and applications. But, changing business practices, hybrid IT, cloud and other aspects of digital...
Privileged Access Management (PAM) is a critical element of any organization's security strategy. PAM is all about governing the access rights of highly privileged users, both human and non-human, who can administer key systems and applications - and potentially wreak havoc on a company's security posture if they are...
A new malware variant dubbed Black-T developed by the hacker group TeamTnT targets exposed Docker daemon APIs to perform scanning and cryptojacking operations, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42.
In this year of accelerated transformation, many enterprises have adopted and adapted to software-defined networking. Daniel Schrader of Fortinet and Daniel Cooke of Vandis discuss how they have partnered to empower networking transformation.
McAfee is set to become a public company once again, with the cybersecurity firm filing for an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to trade under "MCFE" on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Separately, Ivanti announced that it would buy security firms MobileIron and Pulse Secure.
Microsoft removed 18 apps from its Azure cloud platform that were being used by hackers as part of their command-and-control infrastructure. The threat group, called Gadolinium, was abusing the infrastructure to launch phishing email attacks, Microsoft researchers say.
TikTok and WeChat both received reprieves over the weekend that helped avert U.S. blocks of their social media apps. President Donald Trump says he has given his "blessing" to a deal that would see Oracle and Walmart take a stake in TikTok's U.S. operations. Separately, a federal judge suspended a WeChat ban.
As organizations pursue digital transformation initiatives and embrace more cloud services, data and workloads no longer exist in easily demarcated, on-premises private data centers.
In this more cloud-centric world, organizations must now safeguard employees and data, no matter their location. To do so, enterprises...
A leaked database compiled by a Chinese company has suddenly become the focus of news media reports warning that it could be used as an espionage instrument by Beijing. But on closer examination, the alleged "social media warfare database" looks like public information largely scraped from social media sites.
With cloud adoption on the rise, businesses have been transitioning to hybrid and multicloud environments at an incredible pace. In fact, Gartner predicts that 80% of enterprises will have entirely cloud-based infrastructures by 2025.
Having a strategy to mitigate the challenges of these new, complex...
Forrester estimates that 80% of security breaches involve privileged credentials, and it's obvious enough why: it's your 'privileged' users, whether people or other systems, that have access to the sensitive data and critical infrastructure that attackers are targeting.
But knowing this fact doesn't really help you...
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