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The parallels of pandemic response and IoT security
While adjusting to life under a pandemic, we’ve become familiar with a host of medical and safety terminology that either didn’t exist before or was of little interest to …
Machine learning-powered cybersecurity depends on good data and experience
According to IDG’s 2020 Cloud Computing Study, 92% of organizations have at least some sort of cloud footprint in regard to their IT environment. Therefore, traditional cloud …
The future of touchless visitor management lies with biometrics
With so many people making their way into an office building on any given day – whether as a prospective job candidate, a vendor with a delivery, or for a client meeting …
Advice for aspiring threat hunters, investigators, and researchers from the old town folk
There’s a big cohort of security geeks who joined the industry around the turn of the millennium by either landing “infosec” jobs or, quite frequently, just by making infosec …
Get your firm to say goodbye to password headaches
Passwords are problematic. They can be costly and burdensome for businesses to manage, can cause poor user experience, and they are easily compromised. It’s no wonder, then, …
XDR and MDR: What’s the difference and why does it matter?
The cybersecurity industry loves acronyms and XDR is rising swiftly to the top of the charts of the current lexicon. Extended detection and response (XDR) is a designation …
How to address post-pandemic infrastructure pain points
Like bankruptcy, falling asleep, or even falling in love, today’s infrastructure and security pain points develop first gradually, and then all at once. The coronavirus …
Using Salesforce? Here are 5 security and compliance considerations
When it comes to mission-critical cloud applications, today’s security teams have a laundry list of different focus areas. From ensuring cloud providers deliver adequate …
The SOC is blind to the attackable surface
A security operations center (SOC) is the central nervous system of any advanced cybersecurity program. Yet even the most well-funded, highly organized and properly equipped …
April 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast: Security best practices
March kept us all very busy with the ongoing out-of-band Microsoft updates for Exchange Server and the printing BSODs, which plagued us since last Patch Tuesday. It looks like …
4 things you can do to minimize cyberattacks on supply and value chains
Supply chain attacks target the weakest spot in most every enterprise’s security program: third-party access. The SolarWinds hack was a classic supply chain attack, …
Cloud-native watering hole attack: Simple and potentially devastating
In this era of increasing technological complexity, watering hole attacks build on a model of simplicity. Just like predatory animals that hover near sources of water favored …