Cloud Security This Week – March 16, 2018

Evident.io + Palo Alto Networks – Bolsters Palo Alto’s Comprehensive Security Offering Joining forces with Palo Alto Networks Evident.io founder and CEO Tim Predergast explains why Evident.io and Palo Alto Networks will create the most comp… Continue reading Cloud Security This Week – March 16, 2018

A CISO’s Series of Unfortunate Events

You’ve probably seen those quaint features in business publications like, “A Day in the Life of the CFO.” They always have some campy comments that try to make the person relatable (“…and at 9:34am, I finally get around to… Continue reading A CISO’s Series of Unfortunate Events

AWS Security Tech Tips: Programmatic Onboarding of AWS Accounts to ESP Using CloudFormation and Python

In an effort to reduce vulnerabilities and improve control over their cloud environments, an increasing number of AWS customers rely on the Evident Security Platform (ESP) to automate both the discovery and remediation of sensitive security issues. Int… Continue reading AWS Security Tech Tips: Programmatic Onboarding of AWS Accounts to ESP Using CloudFormation and Python

Cloud Security This Week – March 9, 2018

New from Evident.io Evident.io Custom Signature Provides Protection in New Wave of DDoS Attacks Only one week after a massive DDoS attack knocked GitHub offline, a new attack dubbed “Memcrash” used the same methods to hack a U.S. service pr… Continue reading Cloud Security This Week – March 9, 2018

Evident.io Custom Signature Provides Protection in New Wave of DDoS Attacks

Only one week after a massive DDoS attack knocked GitHub offline, a new attack dubbed “Memcrash” used the same methods to hack a U.S. service provider by targeting memcache servers. In this case where almost 100,000 memcache servers were at… Continue reading Evident.io Custom Signature Provides Protection in New Wave of DDoS Attacks

Friday Hack Chat: Everything About The ESP

When the ESP-8266 first arrived, it was a marvel. For two dollars, you could buy a simple module that could serve as a bridge between WiFi networks and microcontroller projects. It understood the Hayes command set, it didn’t use much power, and, as noted before, it only cost two dollars. The idea of cheap and accessible Internet of Things things was right there for the taking.

Then hackers figured out what was actually going on inside the ESP-8266. It was a full-blown microcontroller. There was Lua stuff you could put on it. You could program it with the Arduino IDE …read more

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Post-Webinar Recap: Compliance in the Cloud in 2018

Once thought of as speed bumps in the path to deployment, security and compliance are now seen as critical ingredients that help organizations differentiate their offerings in the market, win more deals, and achieve mission-critical goals faster. We ho… Continue reading Post-Webinar Recap: Compliance in the Cloud in 2018

All Security is Cybersecurity

Personal data is collected and used than ever before and in an incredibly diverse number of ways. Traditionally, government and employer ERP systems held our Social Security Numbers, an insurance company database had medical information, and scattered … Continue reading All Security is Cybersecurity

Cloud Security This Week – February 16, 2018

Evident.io in the News Open AWS S3 Bucket Exposes Private Info on Thousands of Fedex Customers “There’s a whole hacker cottage industry around finding and exploiting S3 buckets, and it’s growing because as cloud environments grow, so … Continue reading Cloud Security This Week – February 16, 2018

The Olympics and 4,000 Government Websites Got Owned

Two recent discoveries in the world of cybersecurity – from the Olympics and via cryptojacking – highlight potential trends we can expect to see more of. High profile and brash, they portend an alarming extension of hacker activity. Olympic… Continue reading The Olympics and 4,000 Government Websites Got Owned