Pwnie Express Pulse is a SaaS offering that uses custom hardware sensors to provide continuous network discovery, threat detection, risk assessment, and critical information about all security issues that should be resolved. After seeing Pulse in action, I can say that Pwnie Express came a long way from being a crowd pleaser at security …
Security operations teams are engaged in a constant struggle to keep up with the volume of security alerts, maintain the right skills, and manage incident response processes. They want quality information, presented in a way that makes it easy to grasp and react to quickly. They want not to be bogged down in security alerts, and not to spend …
Anyone in the information security industry who’s interested in Mac security probably knows who Patrick Wardle is. Apart from being Chief Security Researcher at Synack, he’s also the creator of a number of security tools for macOS, which he makes available for free on his Objective-See project site. He has recently scaled back at …
Phishing and spear-phishing emails are a constant threat to all users, but enterprises are positively inundated with them. “Most businesses will use a spam filter and anti-virus solutions, but unfortunately these cannot prevent all forms of email identity deception or stop social engineering attacks. The spam filter will stop malicious …
It’s a cornerstone of military doctrine: when you focus too much on the last battle you faced, …
Whether they like it or not, in this day and age nearly all organizations have to think about …
Although third-party software libraries represent a majority of an application’s code, they account for less than seven percent of application vulnerabilities. Typically, applications contain both custom code – the code developed by an …
It’s a cornerstone of military doctrine: when you focus too much on the last battle you faced, you miss signs of the new battleground taking shape. The principle holds as true for cybersecurity as it does for cavalries and tanks. The surest way …
By now, many Android users that have the Google Play Store app on their devices should be able to find Google Play Protect in it. What is Google Play Protect? Google Play Protect is a security suite for Android devices, which brings together …
Weighing up whether you think insurance is worth it, in any situation, depends to some extent on personal experience. You can see the value of protection far more clearly if you’ve been on the losing side a few times. And that’s easy when, say, …
A new Ponemon Institute survey of nearly 1,250 global public sector IT decision makers and managers revealed that public sector organizations undergoing digital transformation are losing confidence in IT operations’ ability to manage the influx …
ESET researchers have unearthed a botnet of some 500,000 infected machines engaged mostly in ad-related fraud by using malicious Chrome extensions, but also Facebook fraud and brute-forcing Joomla and WordPress websites. In addition to this, the …
IBM Security announced the launch of two new security testing practice areas focused on automotive security and the Internet of Things (IOT). The new services will be delivered via a team of IBM X-Force Red researchers focused on testing backend …
