Palo Alto Networks Makes a Case for Zero-Trust IT

Palo Alto Networks today announced it has extended its security portfolio as part of an effort to streamline the time and effort required for organizations to create and maintain a zero-trust IT environment across an extended enterprise. New capabilit… Continue reading Palo Alto Networks Makes a Case for Zero-Trust IT

Biden EO Has Teeth, But May Prove Difficult to Implement

President Biden served up an Executive Order, prompted by fallout from the SolarWinds attack, that has drawn praise for the administration’s obvious commitment to cybersecurity and a willingness to put the weight of the federal government’s purchasing… Continue reading Biden EO Has Teeth, But May Prove Difficult to Implement

Cloud Adoption Conflict: Data Privacy vs. Data Science 

A survey conducted by Lead to Market reveals a growing conflict between data scientists and data security professionals. Businesses, in their quest for actionable insights, are pressuring data scientists to accelerate analysis, which requires quick ac… Continue reading Cloud Adoption Conflict: Data Privacy vs. Data Science 

JumpCloud Adds MFA Capability to Enable Zero-Trust

JumpCloud today announced it is adding a free one-touch multifactor authentication (MFA) capability to its directory to make it simpler to implement a zero-trust IT environment. Greg Keller, JumpCloud CTO, says JumpCloud Protect enables IT organizatio… Continue reading JumpCloud Adds MFA Capability to Enable Zero-Trust

Accellion Data Breach Highlights Third-Party Risk

Two mega-breaches caused by third parties earlier this year, following the SolarWinds supply chain hack created a growing tsunami of third-party risk for enterprises and government organizations. Security software provider Accellion also suffered a br… Continue reading Accellion Data Breach Highlights Third-Party Risk

The Establishment of a Cyber Safety Review Board

In 2013, the Obama Administration began asking what government could do to improve cybersecurity. By February 2014, Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation, convened a… Continue reading The Establishment of a Cyber Safety Review Board

EOs, Ransomware, and Critical Infrastructure: Q&A with Ryan Weeks

The Ransomware Task Force (RTF) was originally announced in December 2020 as a broad coalition of more than 60 experts in the cybersecurity industry, government, law enforcement and international organizations coming together in the fight against rans… Continue reading EOs, Ransomware, and Critical Infrastructure: Q&A with Ryan Weeks

DarkSide Ransomware Gang Struck Down — but by Whom?

DarkSide, hackers of the Colonial Pipeline, has hurriedly shut up shop. It claims that its servers and cryptocurrency balances have disappeared.
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CrowdStrike Deepens Security Ties with Google

CrowdStrike has extended its relationship with Google Cloud to make it possible to bi-directionally share telemetry and data between CrowdStrike Falcon cloud service for protecting endpoints and security offerings from Google such as Chronicle, VirusT… Continue reading CrowdStrike Deepens Security Ties with Google