Best Practices for Ransomware Defense

Ransomware has the potential to destroy business data, cause millions of dollars in revenue loss, ruin your business’ reputation and sully your brand. Such an attack erodes trust, and customers will leave en masse. Investing in security may seem… Continue reading Best Practices for Ransomware Defense

Survey Surfaces Heavy Security Toll From Alert Fatigue

A survey of 427 cybersecurity professionals published today by Sumo Logic, a provider of a security event information management (SIEM) platform provided as a cloud service, suggests alert fatigue has become a chronic issue. According to the survey re… Continue reading Survey Surfaces Heavy Security Toll From Alert Fatigue

WhiteSource Adds Python Support to Vulnerability Discovery Tool

WhiteSource today announced it has extended to reach of its tool for scanning for vulnerabilities in open source application code to include support for the Python programming language. Jeffrey Martin, director of product for WhiteSource, said the com… Continue reading WhiteSource Adds Python Support to Vulnerability Discovery Tool

Low-Priority Threats: The Achilles Heel of Security Teams

No company has ever been breached as a result of a high-severity alert. There may be a few exceptions, but high-severity alerts are not generally what’s keeping security teams up at night. Organizations are well-prepared to diffuse a threat once it’s … Continue reading Low-Priority Threats: The Achilles Heel of Security Teams

NGINX’s Amplify monitoring tool is now in public beta

graphs-screen NGINX today launched Amplify, its new application monitoring tool, out of private beta. While the cloud-based tool is still officially in beta, it’s now available to all NGINX users — both those who run the paid NGINX Plus edition or the free open-source version. As NGINX CEO Gus Robertson and CMO Peter Guagenti told me, the company’s users told the team that they wanted to… Read More Continue reading NGINX’s Amplify monitoring tool is now in public beta