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New Year, New Risks: 3 Application Security Resolutions You Should Adopt in 2019

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To ring in the new year, application security teams should resolve to implement more security into the development process, prioritize consumer trust and pay more attention to false negatives.

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Bing Warns VLC Media Player Site is ‘Suspicious’ in Likely False-Positive Gaff

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After identifying the official VLC media download page as “unsafe” with its Bing search engine, Microsoft now suggests it was done in error. Continue reading Bing Warns VLC Media Player Site is ‘Suspicious’ in Likely False-Positive Gaff→

6 Best Practices to Make the Most of Your Sandbox Proof of Concept

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Any time you incorporate a major new component—such as a sandbox platform—into your security ecosystem, it’s important to do a rigorous, side-by-side evaluation of competing products to determine the best choice for your situation. But a proof of conc… Continue reading 6 Best Practices to Make the Most of Your Sandbox Proof of Concept→

It’s Time to Adopt AI in Your Security Operations Center

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If your security operations center (SOC) team is overwhelmed when it comes to cybersecurity, it’s time to consider AI to automate your time-consuming tasks.

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Launching VirusTotal Monitor, a service to mitigate false positives

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One of VirusTotal’s core missions is to empower our antivirus partners. By building better tools to detect and study malware, VirusTotal gets to make a dent in the security of billions of users (all those that use the products of our partners). Until n… Continue reading Launching VirusTotal Monitor, a service to mitigate false positives→

Fatalities vs False Positives: The Lessons from the Tesla and Uber Crashes

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In one bad week in March, two people were indirectly killed by automated driving systems. A Tesla vehicle drove into a barrier, killing its driver, and an Uber vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian crossing the street. The National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary reports on both accidents came out recently, and these bring us as close as we’re going to get to a definitive view of what actually happened. What can we learn from these two crashes?

There is one outstanding factor that makes these two crashes look different on the surface: Tesla’s algorithm misidentified a lane split and actively …read more

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The Hack React: Testing a SOC Director’s Cybersecurity Incident Response

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When Lincoln Healthcare experiences a watering hole attack, security operations center (SOC) director Malcolm Gerhard is tasked with developing a swift cybersecurity incident response. Will he succeed?

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Relieving Alert Fatigue With Personally Tailored Threat Intelligence

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By tailoring threat intelligence to the specific concerns of the analysts consuming it, organizations can reduce alert fatigue and achieve higher levels of security maturity.

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