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As data privacy advocates celebrate the 16th annual Data Privacy Day many cybersecurity professionals remain conflicted. The concern is that data privacy is often conflated with security when in fact the former has much more to do with compliance than… Continue reading Data Privacy Day Surfaces Latent Cybersecurity Tensions
Cisco today announced a security architecture for internet of things (IoT) environments based on multiple IoT technologies the company acquired in the last year that are augmented by Talos security monitoring software and services from Cisco. Announce… Continue reading Cisco Launches IoT Security Platform
As part of an effort to help chronically underfunded government agencies combat state-sponsored cyberattacks, WhiteHat Security, a unit of NTT, has decided to offer free of charge two services it provides for discovering vulnerabilities before and aft… Continue reading WhiteHat Provides Free Vulnerability Discovery Services to Gov’t Agencies
More money than ever is being allocated to cybersecurity, yet the biggest issue most organizations will face in 2020 will be aligning cybersecurity and IT operations processes rather than mastering an individual technology. A recent survey of 400 IT l… Continue reading Cybersecurity Process Issues Will Dominate 2020
Security Compass, a provider of tools for streamlining risk analysis, has appointed Rohit Sethi to be its CEO after receiving additional funding from FTV Capital. Security Compass founder and previous CEO Nish Balla will remain on the board of directo… Continue reading Security Compass CEO Sets DevSecOps Strategy
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, an arm of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has published version 1.0 of a privacy framework to help organizations think through the process of securing personal data. The NIST privacy framework consi… Continue reading NIST Publishes Privacy Framework
Wind River today announced it has acquired Star Lab to enable customers to secure embedded systems running Linux. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and Star Lab will continue to operate as a subsidiary of Wind River. As more devices running Linux … Continue reading Wind River Acquires Star Lab for IoT Security
Armis, a provider of a service through which organizations can discover devices connected to their networks and assess the level of risk they represent, has been acquired by Insight Partners for $1.1 billion in cash. Company CTO Nadir Izrael said the … Continue reading Insight Acquires Armis To Expand Secure Endpoint Service
A report published by Akamai at the close of 2019 advises cybersecurity teams to expect to see many more weaponized cyber attacks in the New Year. Larry Cashdollar, an Akamai security researcher, said going into 2020 an overlap between criminal develo… Continue reading Akamai: Cyber Attacks Now Being Weaponized
Despite a global shortage of cybersecurity expertise that is often described as nothing less than chronic, a global salary survey of 1,324 cybersecurity professionals finds nearly half the respondents (48%) earn less than $50,000 a year. Only 36% earn… Continue reading Survey Finds Cybersecurity Salaries Constrained