RSA Conference 2019: How to Be Better, on Trust, AI and IoT

SAN FRANCISCO – The slogan of this year’s RSA Conference is “Better” – and accordingly, Tuesday morning’s keynotes zeroed in on reversing some of the disturbing sociological trends that have been festering of late. That includes “information warfare,” meant to undermine citizens’ trust in media a...

Cisco, Talos tout importance of IoT security at RSA keynote

--- Matt Watchinski, the vice president of Cisco Talos, delivers a keynote address at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. By Jonathan Munshaw of Cisco Talos and Liza Meak of The Network, Cisco’s technology news site. By 2020, Gartner predicts 20 billion connected devices will be onlin...

RSAC 2019: Malicious Emailed URLs See Triple-Digit Increase

SAN FRANCISCO: Business emails laced with malicious URLs in the message body have spiked by more than 125 percent in Q4 2018 in comparison with the quarter before. According to Mimecast’s latest Email Security Risk Assessment ESRA report, released at the RSA Conference 2019 in San Francisco this...

RSAC 2019: 58% of Orgs Have Unfilled Cyber Positions

SAN FRANCISCO – Much has been made of the cybersecurity workforce gap, and it appears to be a persistent issue: A full 69 percent of respondents in a recent survey said that they have cybersecurity teams that are understaffed. According to ISACA’s State of Cybersecurity 2019 survey, released at t...

RSAC 2019: An Antidote for Tech Gone Wrong

SAN FRANCISCO – Tech innovation can move faster than its own good might dictate, often leaving the public interest as an afterthought. Take, for example, hot-button topics such as artificial intelligence, network neutrality and social network user privacy – and consider the ensuing debates. The...

Podcast: RSA Conference 2019 Preview

The RSA 2019 conference is right around the corner, kicking off next week in San Francisco. As they prepare to cover the show, Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell, Tom Spring and Tara Seals break down the biggest news, stories and trends – from artificial intelligence and government security to...

Don’t Let Security Needs Halt Your Digital Transformation. Imperva FlexProtect Offers Agile Security for any Enterprise.

Is your enterprise in the midst of a digital transformation? Of course it is. Doing business in today’s global marketplace is more competitive than ever. Automating your business processes and infusing them with always-on, real-time applications and other cutting-edge technology is key to keeping...

Carbon Black Wins Four 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards

We’re excited to announce that the 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognized Carbon Black as a winner of the following four categories: Best Cybersecurity Company Gold Winner Endpoint Security for Predictive Security Cloud Gold Winner Endpoint Detection and Response for CB ThreatHunter Silv...

Imperva Makes Major Expansion in Application Security

When Imperva announced in 2018 it would acquire the application security solution provider Prevoty, a company I co-founded with Julien Bellanger, I knew it would be a win-win for our industry. Prevoty’s flagship product, Autonomous Application Protection, is the most mature, market-tested runtime...

Public-Interest Tech at the RSA Conference

Our work in cybersecurity is inexorably intertwined with public policy and­ -- more generally­ -- the public interest. It's obvious in the debates on encryption and vulnerability disclosure, but it's also part of the policy discussions about the Internet of Things, cryptocurrencies, artificial...

NSA to release its GHIDRA reverse engineering tool for free

The United States' National Security Agency NSA is planning to release its internally developed reverse engineering tool for free at the upcoming RSA security conference 2019 that will be held in March in San Francisco. The existence of the framework, dubbed GHIDRA, was first publicly revealed by...

NSA to release its GHIDRA reverse engineering tool for free

The United States' National Security Agency NSA is planning to release its internally developed reverse engineering tool for free at the upcoming RSA security conference 2019 that will be held in March in San Francisco. The existence of the framework, dubbed GHIDRA, was first publicly revealed by...

Women in Cyber Take the 2019 Spotlight

As the cybersecurity industry continues to struggle to meet a workforce gap – an estimated 3.5 million jobs are expected to remain unfilled by 2021 – it’s clear that encouraging women and those from diverse backgrounds to pursue careers in the field will be a key factor in staying ahead of the...

Survey: 27 Percent of IT professionals receive more than 1 million security alerts daily

Imagine trying to tackle over one million security alerts in a day. That number is so huge that it may sound like hyperbole, but this is exactly what many security teams face. Dealing with such a high volume of potential threats on a regular basis can quickly lead to alert fatigue. Sure, we expec...

Overwhelmed by overchoice at RSA Conference 2018

As over 500 companies vied for mindshare at this years RSA conference - a cacophony of vendors pitching thousands of products from brightly colored booths - it reminded me of how challenging it was for me to separate signal from noise when I was managing global networks. And the rapid growth of...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of April 16, 2018

It was a crazy week at this year’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. I always try to get a quick view of the floor to see companies old and new exhibit their wares. Unfortunately, work never sleeps when you attend a conference, and the shortage of seating at this year’s event left many, including...

HackerOne CEO Talks Bug Bounty Programs at RSA Conference

SAN FRANCISCO – Marten Mickos, HackerOne CEO, catches up with Threatpost at RSA Conference to discuss hot-button issues around modern bounty programs. Topics range from how to design a program to protect consumer privacy and vulnerability disclosure issues. Mickos also reflects on the growing...

IoT Security Concerns Peaking – With No End In Sight

SAN FRANCISCO – With the massive influx of connected devices into our digital lives, it’s no surprise that IoT security was on the forefront of the 2018 RSA Conference this year. But despite numerous talks about IoT vulnerabilities this week, a clear resolution seems nowhere in sight. “A lot of t...

Chris Vickery Discusses Data Leak of 48 Million Users by Private Intelligence Firm

SAN FRANCISCO – Profile data of 48 million users that was scraped from social networks and websites ranging from Facebook, LinkedIn, Zillow and Twitter was leaked by a private intelligence agency. The data was left on an Amazon S3 storage bucket accessible without a password by Localblox, the...

Researcher Billy Rios, Talks Medical Device Security at RSA Conference 2018

Researcher Billy Rios, founder of WhiteScope, discusses medical device hacking at RSA Conference 2018 with Threatpost’s Tom Spring. Rios also talks about his work where he demonstrated how an attacker could remotely hack an internet-connected car wash and used it to attack and damage vehicles...