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.
A modified version of the Black Rose Lucy malware has surfaced on Android devices with the hackers impersonating the FBI. When affected users pay a fine, they supposedly could regain access to their encrypted files. At the end of 2018, Check Point's security researchers identified a new variant ... Read more
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If you ask enterprise organizations about their encryption policies, you can conclude that they are applying it more often than before. Encryption has become a vital part of their IT strategy. However, the motivation behind it is not always the right one. Often, compliance with laws and regulations... Read more
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Cybersecurity experts at Rack 911 Labs found a security bug in 28 antivirus applications. Hackers can use an error in the system to delete files, install malware, and cause crashes. The Rack911 Labs report refers to a "symlink race". A symlink race vulnerability occurs when you link a ... Read more
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Palo Alto Networks has recently completed several acquisitions, each worth millions, to build a broad portfolio for a variety of network and security tasks. The largest acquisition (560 million dollars), and therefore one of the most important, is that of Demisto. This party specializes in SOAR pla... Read more
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Microsoft's Surface products are being equipped with USB C connectors more often, but support for Thunderbolt 3 is still lacking. According to an employee of the tech giant due to a security risk that Thunderbolt 3 poses. A leaked video with the Windows employee also states that the inability to up... Read more
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There is a lot of confusion about what artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can mean for cyber security. This is shown by research by security firm Webroot. While most IT professionals agree that more needs to be done to protect against cyber attacks and that artificial intelli... Read more
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Businesses are facing a significant increase in cyber attacks. Security company Kaspersky published a new report with the findings. Of the 770,000 Kaspersky users affected by banking Trojans, the business world accounted for 35 percent. The number of users affected rose by ten percent compared t... Read more
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Cyber attacks targeting companies in the United States and other countries have more than doubled. Employees are forced to work from home, with the result that security is suffering as a result. Researchers from the Finnish firm Arctic Security found that the number of networks with malicious ac... Read more
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With the rollout of Chrome 81.0.4044.113, a critical vulnerability in Google's browser should be fixed, as the tech giant states on its website. The vulnerability is comprised of a feature where part of the memory is reserved for a certain process and returned to the OS after use. However, shoul... Read more
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The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) may have lost tens of millions of euros after phishers claimed government subsidies, using the data of thousands of people. According to the German Handelsblatt, that amount could amount to more than a hundred million. In the federal state of NRW,... Read more
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