Why Eugene Kaspersky keeps talking about ‘Project Sauron’

Kaspersky Lab founder and CEO Eugene Kaspersky says he’s figured out why the U.S. government hates his company. According to Kaspersky, his company’s research into a sophisticated, international cyber espionage operation that targeted government entities in Russia, Iran and Rwanda represents why the Russian anti-virus maker has become a bogeyman for the U.S. government. This reasoning came during public comments Kaspersky made Tuesday during a small event in London. His comments are the most detailed effort among Kaspersky’s multiple attempts to defend his company from allegations the Moscow-based company acts as an intelligence collection tool for Russian spies. Kaspersky talked about his company’s discovery of U.S. intelligence related hacking operations, including those of the NSA-linked “Equation Group” and CIA-linked “Lamberts,” being the reason for the recent firestorm. He specifically emphasized the unveiling of one particular campaign — known as ProjectSauron or Strider — as a driving factor while also implying U.S. involvement with […]

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SAP wants to bridge the gap between IoT and business data

 SAP announced a new tool today called the Leonardo IoT Bridge designed to help bridge the gap between data coming from sensors in the field and business systems operating inside a firm.
The manufacturing sector is in the middle of a massive shift where machines are being equipped with sensors that transmit torrents of data about their health, and the environment around them, over the… Read More Continue reading SAP wants to bridge the gap between IoT and business data

Capital One open sources Cloud Custodian AWS resource management tool

CapitalOne Bank branch Capital One is a huge organization with lots of compliance issues related to being a financial services company. It also happens to be an Amazon Web Services customer and it needed a tool to set rules and policies in an efficient way around AWS usage. Last July it started developing the tool that would become Cloud Custodian and today it announced at an AWS event in Chicago that it was… Read More Continue reading Capital One open sources Cloud Custodian AWS resource management tool

Security Architecture – Settings to drive UI and Privileges (Rights) – Role-Based, per User-Account

How do large companies implement their security requirements which are centralized and used to drive things people can do (allowed to call a certain web-service, submit an order, etc.) as well as to drive UI (disable buttons, menu options,… Continue reading Security Architecture – Settings to drive UI and Privileges (Rights) – Role-Based, per User-Account