Collaborate Disseminate
The cybersecurity skills gap is one of the most daunting challenges facing the industry. We have a vibrant ecosystem of technology vendors developing shiny new tools, but the people who must use these tools to defend our sensitive networks are getting … Continue reading Automating out of the skill gap sinkhole
Does your SOC feel like an MMA Octagon cage ? fending attackers without a complete strategy? You can use this 4-step fight plan to help your teams thump attackers; focused on automating known threats and leveraging tools to orchestrate threat hunting a… Continue reading Never Let Your Guard Down. Aroo!
How much can customer service be automated? Onward has some straightforward targets — 40 percent of tickets and 40 percent of messages should be automated, and average response times should be 40 seconds on average. Founders Rémi Cossart an… Continue reading Onward helps businesses automate their customer service
Ten years ago, I was brought into the industrial security arena by a top company executive in who was convinced that we needed traditional endpoint protection on smart meters. I had spent fifteen years before that in enterprise security, so it took a w… Continue reading Expected changes in IT/OT convergence and industrial security
It has been known for a while that the overwhelming majority of Internet users doesn’t read privacy policies and terms of service before agreeing to them. Those few that do usually skim over them. That’s mostly because these documents and agreeme… Continue reading Polisis: AI-based framework for analyzing privacy policies in real time
Last fall at Oracle OpenWorld, chairman Larry Ellison showed he was a man of the people by comparing the company’s new autonomous database service to auto-pilot on his private plane. Regardless, those autonomous capabilities were pretty adv… Continue reading Oracle to expand automation capabilities across developer cloud services
Based on a survey of nearly 700 engineering and operations individuals globally, a report by Indeni and GNS3 reveals a programming knowledge gap that is having an impact on the productivity of businesses surveyed, putting network availability at risk. … Continue reading IT ops and engineering are embracing automation to increase business agility
At this year’s Chaos Communication Congress, we caught up with [muzy] and [overflo], who were there with a badge and soldering project they designed to teach young folks how to solder and program. Blinkenrocket is a basically a 64-LED matrix display and just enough support hardware to store and display animations, and judging by the number of blinking rockets we saw around the necks of attendees, it was a success.
Their talk at 34C3 mostly concerns the production details, design refinements, and the pitfalls of producing thousands of a thing. If you’re thinking of building a hardware kit or badge …read more
A group of researchers is trying to develop an automatic early warning system that should help defenders take preventative action before specific cyber attacks start unfolding. How does their system work? Their approach leverages the fact that preparat… Continue reading Researchers showcase automated cyber threat anticipation system
A “cyber security enthusiast” that goes by VectorSEC on Twitter has published AutoSploit, a Python-based tool that takes advantage of Shodan and Metasploit modules to automate mass exploitation of remote hosts. “Targets are collected … Continue reading AutoSploit: Automated mass exploitation of remote hosts using Shodan and Metasploit