Turning collaboration and customer engagement up with a strong identity approach

In these challenging times, it’s even more apparent that modern companies are managing a blended workforce that encompasses not only their full-time staff and customers but also their contractors, consultants, subsidiaries, suppliers, partners, and soon-to-be customers. Balancing friction-less...

March 2020 - Professional Services and the Media Industry

In today's ever-shifting market, we recognize that you need to be constantly adapting, and Akamai provides a way to enhance your customers' experiences through our unique expertise, helping you unlock the value of Akamai's products and services. Professional Services' primary mission is to drive...

Cybersecurity in the C-Suite & Boardroom

As the pace of digital transformation increases, an industry declaration has emerged, “Cybersecurity is a boardroom issue.” To create a culture of cybersecurity, executives need to be more engaged and present with their strategies...

CVE-2019-15126 aka Kr00k

An issue was discovered on Broadcom Wi-Fi client devices. Specifically timed and handcrafted traffic can cause internal errors related to state transitions in a WLAN device that lead to improper layer 2 Wi-Fi encryption with a consequent possibility of information disclosure over the air for a...

Trolls-For-Hire Pave Way For Sophisticated Social Media Hacks

NEW ORLEANS – Researchers have observed the blossoming of a new type of social media nuisance they are calling Trolling-as-a-Service. They say these rabble-rousing efforts have emerged as a clever new way for hackers to launch coordinated and dangerous attacks via Facebook and Twitter. Speaking a...

Black Friday Stays Mobile

If you're anything like me, you have no interest in physically entering a store the day after Thanksgiving. I do, however, love to shop online in the comfort of my home. While many people start their holiday shopping on Black Friday, I go to my favorite online retailers a day or two early, add wh...

Lenovo Customer Engagement Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Lenovo Customer Engagement Service CCSDK is a suite of customer engagement service software from Lenovo, China. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Lenovo Customer Engagement Service CCSDK. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to elevate privileges...

CVE-2019-6184

A potential vulnerability in the discontinued Customer Engagement Service CCSDK software version 2.0.21.1 may allow local privilege escalation...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking on "Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers" at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India on December 12, 2019. The list is maintained on this page...

Presentation Template: Build Your 2020 Security Plan

As the end of the year approaches, security decision makers are creating their 2020 plans and running them by management for approval. In most cases, this means requesting and making the case for the necessary resources that need to be allocated, while still providing value to the organization. T...

Pixel Perfect. Enhanced Optimizations Focused on Customer Experience

I remember the days when brands captivated users online with dancing aliens LowerMyBills.com and Elf Yourself advertising campaigns OfficeMax. In this new digital era, however, customers are smarter, more powerful, and dictate more than ever how and when they interact with brands. More important...

Quickly Extend Live Streams with VOD Clipping

Time is always of the essence to extend compelling video content such as sporting events and concerts and make the most of media rights windows. This is especially true for catch-up TV, highlight creation, time-shifting 24/7 simulcast streams, and social sharing. At Akamai, we are continually...

Maximizing Onboarding: Giving managers the skills for success

Managing teams come with challenges as well as rewards. Managers drive individual and team performance, and the best managers drive employee connection and engagement. Akamai believes that employees are our biggest asset; by effectively and efficiently integrating them into the...

The vulnerability of the Segment component in Oracle Retail Customer Engagement software allows a hacker to gain read access to data or cause a partial service disruption.

The vulnerability of the Segment component in Oracle Retail Customer Engagement software relates to lack of access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to gain read-only access to data or cause partial service disruption by sending specially crafted HTTP requests...

Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 19, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. We’re all still trying to shake off the summer. Gone are the early Fridays, beach vacations and days by the pool. Turns out, attackers m...

Grapl - Graph Platform For Detection And Response

Grapl is a Graph Platform for Detection and Response. For a more in depth overview of Grapl, read this. In short, Grapl will take raw logs, convert them into graphs, and merge those graphs into a Master Graph. It will then orchestrate the execution of your attack signatures and provide tools for...

Engage Your Management with the Definitive 'Security for Management' Presentation Template

In every organization, there is a person who's directly accountable for cybersecurity. The name of the role varies per the organization's size and maturity – CISO, CIO, and Director of IT are just a few common examples – but the responsibility is similar in all places. They're the person who...

Engage Your Management with the Definitive 'Security for Management' Presentation Template

In every organization, there is a person who's directly accountable for cybersecurity. The name of the role varies per the organization's size and maturity – CISO, CIO, and Director of IT are just a few common examples – but the responsibility is similar in all places. They're the person who...

Congratulations to our Query of the Month Winner for June 2019!

Last month, we launched our Query of The Month competition, which recognizes the top community-shared query that provides value to other Osquery users. To determine the query of the month, our team selects the community-shared query that has the most engagement or helps solve an important problem...

Twitter Contest! Enter to Win a $250 Gift Card at #CBConnect19

To make CB Connect 2019 even more exciting, we’re hosting a Twitter contest to see who can rack up the most engagement on Twitter. If you want to participate, just share your thoughts about CB Connect 2019 on Twitter by telling us what you’ve learned, which sessions you liked most, who you got to...