Lynis 2.5.5 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...

Scaner-VS: Vulnerability Management solution for Russian Military

Scaner-VS is a Vulnerability Assessment system developed by Moscow-based NPO Echelon. It's pretty popular in Russian government organizations, especially in Russian Army, because it comply all government requirements, has all necessary certificates and is relatively cheap. As for requirements and...

Edith Wharton, Identity Theft, and the GDPR

During one of my talks for Gartner, I asked the audience, “How many of you have ever had anything stolen?” Many hands went up. Then I asked, “How did you know it was stolen?” The answers generally offered, “I looked for it, and it wasn’t there.” Data theft, and in particular identity theft, is...

Data Protection and the GDPR Job Market

The May 2018 deadline for full GDPR compliance will be upon us all before we know it. The GDPR will affect all organizations—regardless of their location—that handle personal data coming out of the EU. Article 37 of the GDPR requires organizations to retain a data protection officer DPO if, among...

FAQ: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Long Term Service Release (LTSR)

Table of Contents General LTSR Information LTSR upgrades Mixing LTSR, CR, and Cloud releases Support lifecycles LTSR compliance Citrix Workspace app LTSR Release timing Other considerations and resources General LTSR Information What’s new and what’s changed with the Citrix Virtual Apps and...

Extend Protection to VMWare Cloud on AWS with Trend Micro™ Deep Security™

On August 28th at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, VMware announced initial availability for their unique offering called 'VMware Cloud on AWS' allowing customers to run VMware workloads on the AWS cloud. This means customers can take advantage of agile cloud infrastructure all the while maintaining...

Threat Intelligence for WAF

It’s all about security rules Stephen Hawking said, “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”. One could say much the same of web application firewalls and WAF security rules. With web applications now one of the most attacked components of IT infrastructures, organizations have a critical...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: firefox-55.0-5.fc25

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with commonly adhered to security standards and regulations. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as ones based on security guidelines from vendors such as Microsoft and VMware...

Countdown to GDPR: IT Policy Compliance

From the first page, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation stresses the importance it places on the security and privacy of EU residents’ private information. The 88-page document opens by referring to the protection of this personal data as a “fundamental right” essential for “freedom,...

SOC 2 Criteria: Change Is Coming - And You Can Have a Voice

SOC 2 reports are an important tool service providers use to give their customers assurances about their services security, compliance, privacy, availability, confidentiality and processing integrity by providing details about the service and the related controls that are in place. SOC 2...

Challenges of Big Data Security – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

Database security best practices are also applicable for big data environments. The question is how to achieve security and compliance for big data environments given the challenges they present. Issues of volume, scale, and multiple layers/technologies/instances make for a uniquely complex...

Countdown to GDPR: Manage Vulnerabilities

If your organization needs a compelling reason for establishing or enhancing its vulnerability management program, circle this date in bold, red ink on your corporate calendar: May 25, 2018. On that day, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation GDPR goes into effect, intensifying the need for...

How to Secure Public Clouds while Boosting Digital Transformation

It’s happening all over the business world. Organizations of all sizes and in all industries are aggressively deploying innovative products to new online consumer channels, digitizing their core services and transitioning core business workloads to public clouds as part of digital transformation...

Countdown to GDPR: Assess Vendor Risk

To comply with GDPR, organizations typically must overhaul and update a number of internal processes and systems, but they can’t ignore a critical area: risk from vendors and other third parties such as contractors, partners, suppliers and service providers. It’s a point that’s stressed repeatedl...

Did you see what the Black Hat newsletter said about Trend Micro?

This year’s Black Hat® conference is right around the corner. Now, amazingly, in its 20th year, Black Hat is one of the world’s top gathering of information security professionals. Friends in the industry refer to this as “Security Summer Camp” and it’s true, between the training, briefings,...

Securing Public Clouds for Digital Transformation Success

As organizations seek digital transformation benefits and aggressively move workloads to public cloud platforms, InfoSec teams must support their business units’ efforts by adapting and properly protecting these environments. This may sound surprising to those who think that, when you use a publi...

SAP GRC Remote Code Injection Vulnerability

SAP GRC is a suite of governance, risk management and compliance solutions from SAP Germany. SAP GRC suffers from a remote code injection vulnerability. It allows an attacker to inject arbitrary code...

Lynis 2.5.2 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...

Static Versus Dynamic Data Masking

Most participants in the trench warfare of IT security agree that the best way to protect data is to apply a layered approach to security. Data masking is a security and privacy enhancing technology recommended by industry analysts as a must-have data protection layer. While terminology varies...