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.
Today Mozilla made the Firefox Monitor widely available. The free service has been tested since the summer and informs users whether their data is part of a data leak. The product stems from a collaboration with Troy Hunt, the creator of Have I Been Pwned and relies largely on the APIs of that site ... Read more
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Security researchers from the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) have found a vulnerability in the Microsoft Jet Database Engine. The vulnerability allows hackers to make use of remote code execution. This means that code can be executed remotely. That's what ITPro reports. The Microsoft Jet Database Engine ... Read more
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Today, Apple released the public release of macOS 10.14 Mojave. However, contrary to what we are used to from the company, there is a major safety flaw. As a result, people who update their system are now vulnerable to hacks. That puts security guard Patrick Wardle against Bleeping Computer. The vul... Read more
4 years ago
Google today confirmed that the Gmail accounts of a number of U.S. senators and their employees have been attacked by hackers who have been granted state aid. This appears to be the case after Senator Ron Wyden wrote a letter in which he reported that the personal mail accounts of some senators and ... Read more
4 years ago
According to the Netherlands ICT, sector association of the ICT sector, the government's ambition to make the Netherlands the digital leader in Europe is not reflected in the bill of millions. No money is being set aside for major structural changes to make the Netherlands future-proof, says Lotte d... Read more
4 years ago
Barracuda has released a new total solution for email protection, which includes the company's complete offering in that area. This is the Barracuda Total Email Protection package, which makes it easier for customers and partners to purchase or deliver a total solution. This is Barracuda's response ... Read more
4 years ago
Cloudflare wants to use a new technology to prevent internet routing problems from occurring. By installing a new feature, resource public key infrastructure (RPKI), it becomes more difficult to divert Internet traffic, reports TechCrunch. Internet routing is a fundamental part of how the Internet ... Read more
4 years ago
If you have a Windows computer with a touch screen, there's a good chance that your device has been collecting sensitive data in recent months or even years. These include passwords and even complete e-mails. That's what Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) security researcher Barnaby Ske... Read more
4 years ago
After the experiences of the previous American Presidential elections, in which fake news was disseminated on social media and attempts were made to hack into the accounts of political candidates and campaign employees, Facebook is now taking additional measures. Facebook will come up with a pilot i... Read more
4 years ago
Microsoft released a patch for FragmentSmack. The attack drives the CPU consumption of a Windows system up to 100 percent, so that it no longer responds. The vulnerability is ideal for DDoS attacks on Windows servers. FragmentSmack (CVE-2018-5391) has been known in the Linux community for a long tim... Read more
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