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Cloud Access Security Brokers – aka “caz-bees” — have come a long way in a short time. CASBs, a term coined by tech industry consultancy Gartner, first cropped about seven years ago to help organizations enforce security and gov… Continue reading MY TAKE: CASBs help companies meet ‘shared responsibility’ for complex, rising cloud risks
To pay or not to pay? That’s the dilemma hundreds of organizations caught in the continuing surge of crippling ransomware attacks have faced. Related: How ransomware became such a scourge The FBI discourages it, as you might have guessed. What… Continue reading SHARED INTEL: What it takes to preserve business continuity, recover quickly from a cyber disaster
It seems like any discussion of cybersecurity these days invariably circles back to automation. Our growing fixation with leveraging artificial intelligence to extract profits from Big Data – for both constructive and criminal ends—is the o… Continue reading NEW TECH: Human operatives maintain personas, prowl the Dark Net for intel to help companies
Homomorphic encryption has long been something of a Holy Grail in cryptography. Related: Post-quantum cryptography on the horizon For decades, some of our smartest mathematicians and computer scientists have struggled to derive a third way to keep data… Continue reading NEW TECH: Breakthrough ‘homomorphic-like’ encryption protects data in-use, without penalties
Keeping track of badness on the Internet has become a thriving cottage industry unto itself. Related: ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ is upon us There are dozens technology giants, cybersecurity vendors, government agencies and industry consortiums th… Continue reading SHARED INTEL: Here’s one way to better leverage actionable intel from the profusion of threat feeds
Hear about the smart toaster that got attacked three times within an hour after its IP address first appeared on the Internet? That experiment conducted by a reporter for The Atlantic crystalizes the seemingly intractable security challenge businesses … Continue reading NEW TECH: Baffin Bay Networks takes a ‘cloud-first’ approach to securing web applications
Threat intelligence sharing is such a simple concept that holds so much promise for stopping threat actors in their tracks. So why hasn’t it made more of an impact stopping network breaches? Related: Ground zero for cybersecurity research Having … Continue reading MY TAKE: How advanced automation of threat intel sharing has quickened incident response
Europe came down hard this summer on British Airways and Marriott for failing to safeguard their customers’ personal data. The EU slammed the UK airline with a $230 million fine, and then hammered the US hotel chain with a $125 million penalty &#… Continue reading MY TAKE: Six-figure GDPR privacy fines reinforce business case for advanced SIEM, UEBA tools
Andrea Carcano’s journey to co-founding a security company in the vanguard of defending critical infrastructure began at a tender age. Related: Why the Golden Age of cyber spying is here Carcano hacked a computer screen at age 14, and that g… Continue reading NEW TECH: ICS zero-day flaws uncovered by Nozomi Networks’ analysis of anomalous behaviors
It was in 2012 that CRITICALSTART burst onto the Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) scene with bold intentions. Related: How SMBs can leverage threat intelligence. The Plano, TX-based company sought to elevate the “MSSP” space high ab… Continue reading NEW TECH: Critical Start delivers managed security services with ‘radical transparency’