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For many start-ups, DevOps has proven to be a magical formula for increasing business velocity. Speed and agility is the name of the game — especially for Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. Related: How DevOps enabled the hacking of Uber Dev… Continue reading MY TAKE: Here’s why we need ‘SecOps’ to help secure ‘Cloud Native’ companiess
All too many companies lack a full appreciation of how vital it has become to proactively manage and keep secure “unstructured data.” One reason for the enduring waves of ransomware is that unstructured data is easy for hackers to locate an… Continue reading MY TAKE: The no. 1 reason ransomware attacks persist: companies overlook ‘unstructured data’
Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? We know how Vladmir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jung-un would answer: “Of course!”… Continue reading Q&A: The troubling implications of normalizing encryption backdoors — for government use
In March 2018, the city of Atlanta fell victim to a ransomware attack that shut down its computer network. City agencies were unable to collect payment. Police departments had to handwrite reports. Years of data disappeared. Related: Political propagan… Continue reading MY TAKE: Poorly protected local government networks cast shadow on midterm elections
Of the many cybersecurity executives I’ve interviewed, Keenan Skelly’s career path may be the most distinctive. Skelly started out as a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician. “I was on the EOD team that was actually a… Continue reading MY TAKE: Here’s how diversity can strengthen cybersecurity — at many levels
Over the past couple of decades, some amazing advances in locking down software code have quietly unfolded in, of all places, Hollywood. Related: HBO hack spurs cyber insurance market Makes sense, though. Digital media and entertainment giants like Net… Continue reading MY TAKE: Can Hollywood’s highly effective ‘source-code’ security tools help make IoT safe?
There is a concept in computing, called runtime, that is so essential and occurs so ubiquitously that it has long been taken for granted. Now cyber criminals have begun to leverage this heretofore innocuous component of computing to insinuate themselve… Continue reading MY TAKE: The amazing ways hackers manipulate ‘runtime’ to disguise deep network breaches
Most large enterprises today can point to multi-millions of dollars expended over the past two decades erecting “layered defenses” to protect their digital systems. Yet catastrophic network breaches continue apace. Turns out there’s a… Continue reading Q&A: How emulating attacks in a live environment can more pervasively protect complex networks
Just like the best sourdough bread derives from a “mother” yeast that gets divided, passed around, and used over and over, open-source software applications get fashioned from a “mother” library of code created and pa… Continue reading NEW TECH: WhiteSource leverages automation to mitigate lurking open-source vulnerabilities
As the Industrial Internet of Things continues to transform the global industrial manufacturing and critical infrastructure industries, the threat of aggressive, innovative and dangerous cyber-attacks has become increasingly concerning. Adopting modern… Continue reading GUEST ESSAY: A call for immediate, collective action to stem attacks on industrial control systems