cybersecurity

Cybersecurity pros opine on the future of security
Trellix released global research revealing the cost of siloed security, weak spots in protection, and lack of confidence amongst security operations teams. This Help Net …

Educational institutions must reverse their backward approach to cyber defense
As schools have become more digital, they’ve taken a somewhat backward approach to cybersecurity, historically moving slowly, and have weak cybersecurity controls and …

Fear of cybercriminals drives cybersecurity improvements
Fortifying cybersecurity defenses remains a work in progress for many organizations, who acknowledge their shortcomings but have yet to commit the necessary resources to the …

What you should look for in an MDR relationship
The managed IT services market is growing both in size and importance, as more organizations decide it makes fiscal and operational sense to outsource key functions. This is …

Cost-effective steps healthcare CISOs can take to mitigate damaging attacks
Cybersecurity measures are increasingly failing to close gaps, and the healthcare industry, in particular, has become a high-dollar target due to limited budgets and quick …

Here’s 5 of the world’s riskiest connected devices
Forescout’s research team analyzed 19 million connected devices deployed across five different industries, to find the riskiest device groups: smart buildings, medical …

New RSA Conference CEO talks about delivering value
Kylie Wright-Ford was recently named CEO of RSA Conference LLC. She joins RSAC with an extensive track record of building communities for business professionals, having served …

How to improve employees’ cybersecurity behavior
We already have cybersecurity behaviors we learned from elsewhere, especially those who have grown up with technology. Initially, cybersecurity starts from home and school, …

Constellation: Open-source, runtime-encrypted Kubernetes
Confidential Computing is a hardware-based technology that shields computer workloads from their environments and keeps data encrypted during processing. In this Help Net …

2FA is over. Long live 3FA!
In the past few months, we’ve seen an unprecedented number of identity theft attacks targeting accounts protected by two-factor authentication (2FA), challenging the …

EDR is not a silver bullet
Old lore held that shooting a werewolf, vampire, or even just your average nasty villain with a silver bullet was a sure-fire takedown: one hit, no more bad guy. As …

Critical vm2 sandbox escape flaw uncovered, patch ASAP! (CVE-2022-36067)
Oxeye researchers discovered a severe vm2 vulnerability (CVE-2022-36067) that has received the maximum CVSS score of 10.0. Called SandBreak, this new vulnerability requires …