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Enabling the Industrial Internet of Things with Unidirectional CloudConnect

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Waterfall Security Solutions launched Unidirectional CloudConnect, a solution based on its patented Unidirectional Gateway technology, designed to meet the challenges of both cybersecurity and interoperability. “Waterfall’s Unidirectional CloudConnect is an essential enabler for the Industrial Internet of Things. CloudConnect secures industrial sites from cyberattacks from the cloud and the Internet, while delivering seamless interoperability of the industrial systems with cloud applications,” said Lior Frenkel, CEO and Co-founder at Waterfall Security Solutions. “As a secure gateway … More → Continue reading Enabling the Industrial Internet of Things with Unidirectional CloudConnect→

Project Springfield: Cloud-based fuzz testing for uncovering million-dollar bugs

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This Moday Microsoft debuted Project Springfield, a cloud-based fuzz testing (aka fuzzing) service that the company has been working on for a quite a while. David Molnar and Patrice Godefroid, two of the key researchers behind Project Springfield, have been claiming since 2010 that fuzzing in the cloud will revolutionize security testing, and now they have provided the means to prove that assertion. What is fuzz testing? Fuzz testing is a method for discovering bugs … More → Continue reading Project Springfield: Cloud-based fuzz testing for uncovering million-dollar bugs→

Qualys expands cloud-based offering for security consultants

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Qualys unveiled two new packages in its Qualys Consultant suite for independent consultants, auditors and security firms. With these new packages, this suite now offers multiple comprehensive security assessment tools in a centralized console, allowing consultants to consolidate their current toolsets and eliminate time spent manually installing, managing, and administering them. Consultants can perform comprehensive security services and generate fully customizable and actionable reports by easily deploying pre-configured and self-updating Qualys scanners remotely or locally, … More → Continue reading Qualys expands cloud-based offering for security consultants→

Bringing security into IT and application infrastructures

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In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2016, Chris Carlson, VP of Product Management, Cloud Agent Platform at Qualys, talks about a new trend in bringing security into IT and application infrastructures, as well as working with the DevOps team for increased security. A lot of security is built on security in-depth, layers of security, bringing the end prevention capabilities. Since the threat landscape, techniques and adversaries are changing quickly, sometimes prevention doesn’t work … More → Continue reading Bringing security into IT and application infrastructures→

Why VoIP security is crucial for organizations

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With more organizations turning to VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) systems to underpin their commercial services and corporate communications, IT response and security testing teams are struggling to keep pace with the VoIP attack surface and growing number of threats in the wild, according to Fatih Ozavci from Context Information Security, speaking at the Black Hat USA 2016 on Thursday. “A lack of understanding of modern VoIP and UC security, … More → Continue reading Why VoIP security is crucial for organizations→

Growth prospects of the cloud-based information governance market

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The global cloud-based information governance market will grow at a CAGR of more than 27% through 2020, according to Technavio. Cloud-based information governance involves the delivery of managed information governance solutions and services such as policy services, legal feed services, discovery services, classification services, enforcement services, audit services, analytics and reporting services, and IT-related services from within a cloud. the following three factors are contributing to the growth of the global cloud-based information governance market: … More → Continue reading Growth prospects of the cloud-based information governance market→

Building a new open standard for cloud-based digital signatures

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On July 1, 2016, a new European Union signature regulation (eIDAS) will go into effect, helping pave the way for global adoption of secure digital signatures. Aligned with this milestone that will help take digital signatures mainstream, Adobe today announced the Cloud Signature Consortium, a group comprised of leading industry and academic organizations committed to building a new open standard for cloud-based digital signatures across mobile and web – so anyone can digitally sign documents … More → Continue reading Building a new open standard for cloud-based digital signatures→