Security is more important than ever. Cybersecurity has been a problem from the start of IT and it will be till the end. It all started with endpoint and network security, but today, we are also facing with cloudsecurity and managing employees to incorporate good security practices.
All these new technologies that help us innovate also helps cybercriminals and state sponsored hackers to get new tools they can use to get access to our systems, and in a worst case scenario, access to our most valuable data and business secrets. Also, with new legislation in place like GDPR, you need to make sure everything is secure, otherwise you just don’t lose your reputation, but you can also be fined by the government. Protecting IT-environments is more important than ever.
Your first line of defense is usually endpoint protection. The devices your employees work with need to be protected against ransomware and other malware which can bring lots and lots of trouble. This nowadays the most basic form of protection and many of the bigger vendors and suites can help you achieve this.
Network security is a bit more advanced, where you can manage which traffic goes across your network. You can also connect different networks together with e.g. SD-WAN. So, you can run protection software and share data between multiple locations. The trend we see in network protection on the datacenter side is to lock down the traffic by only allowing known, benevolent traffic sources. Regarding office networking, we see new initiatives like ZScaler coming up, where you tunnel all your staff over the network of ZScaler so they can analyse the traffic and block patterns that they marked as malicious. Especially for companies with employees that travel a lot, this is a smart solution.
Many thought that bringing workloads to the cloud would reduce their responsibility of doing security. It is now clear that this is not the case. Most cloud vendors practice the “shared responsibility” approach. This means that big hyperscalers can offer a first line of defense against well known threats and port scanners. For the more sophisticated attacks that are directly pointed at your servers, you need to have your protection in place.
Palo Alto Networks intends to acquire Israeli startup Cider Security for roughly €188 million ($195 million). The security vendor wants to expand its offering of application lifecycle security software. According to Palo Alto Networks, the acquisition allows the organisation to extend the sec... Read more
1 year ago
Palo Alto Networks launched PAN-OS 11 Nova, a major update to its operating system. The organization also introduced a range of new next-gen firewalls (NGFWs). According to the security vendor, PAN-OS 11.0 brings as many as 50 enhancements and features. Palo Alto Networks said the update should ... Read more
1 year ago
Rubrik recently introduced Rubrik Cyber Recovery. The zero-trust data security vendor aims to help companies better protect themselves against ransomware attacks. During the tool's announcement, Rubrik said that most companies find it difficult to ensure business continuity during and after a ra... Read more
1 year ago
Noname Security unveiled Noname Recon. The solution finds public APIs and domains that make an organization vulnerable from the outside. Noname Recon scans an environment from the perspective of a cybercriminal, also known as outside-in security. Noname Security hit the market in 2020. A year af... Read more
1 year ago
A group of researchers found holes in the security of Time-Triggered Ethernet applications in spacecraft. The Orion spacecraft and SLS rocket, which have been in development for 15 years and are anticipated to usher into a new era of space exploration, will undergo their first integrated test o... Read more
1 year ago
At least seven criminal groups are responsible for a significant increase in TrojanOrders attacks on Magento 2 websites, which exploit a flaw that allows malicious actors to infect vulnerable servers. Sansec, a website security firm, said that the assaults target nearly 40 percent of all Magento... Read more
1 year ago
Citing a national security review, the British government ordered Chinese-owned tech firm Nexperia to sell a minimum of 86 percent of Britain's largest microchip facility, Newport Wafer Fab. The investigation into Nexperia's 2021 buyout of Newport Wafer Fab, presently recognized as Nexperia Newp... Read more
1 year ago
Cohesity has formed the Data Security Alliance. The coalition of security, data and infrastructure providers aims to support companies in preventing and combating cyberattacks. Cohesity finds security to be increasingly complex. The organization argues that integrators, security vendors and data... Read more
1 year ago
Fraud group 'Fangxiao' built a network of 42,000 sites that impersonate well-known businesses. The network was designed to steer victims to websites pushing adware. Fangxiao uses fake domains to generate website traffic and advertising revenue for its own websites and the websites of customers w... Read more
1 year ago
The US National Security Agency (NSA) urged developers to avoid programming languages that lack integrated memory security features. According to the security agency, the memory management of applications is increasingly targeted by cybercriminals. Attackers can exploit application memory manag... Read more
1 year ago
