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Congratulations to 2020 Akamai Partners of the Year
Last year proved to be a year like no other. We faced unforeseen challenges, including adjusting to a new way of working, collaborating, and conducting business. It is an honor for me to announce the Akamai Partners of the Year for 2020 who went above and beyond in this tumultuous year. These...
CISOs Prep For COVID-19 Exposure Notification in the Workplace
With the potential of employees going back into the workplace on the horizon, chief information security officers CISOs are mulling applications that utilize exposure notifications in order to track COVID-19’s spread in the office. Steve Moore, chief security strategist with Exabeam, said he is...
Shifting Security Right: How Cloud-Based SecOps Can Speed Processes While Maintaining Integrity
When it comes to offloading security controls to the cloud, it may seem counterintuitive to the notion of “securing” things. But, when we consider the efficiency to be gained by shifting right with some security controls, it makes sense to send more granular, ground-up responsibilities to a trust...
The Risky Business: Rapid7 Report Highlights Need for Improved Vulnerability Management Practices
Back in July, Rapid7 released its first-ever National / Industry / Cloud Exposure Report, otherwise known as “NICER.” This report had a big job: to assess not only the prevalence of known threats, but also to provide a geographic census of those threats. It tells the all-too-true story of...
Microsoft Revamps ‘Invasive’ M365 Feature After Privacy Backlash
Microsoft has announced what it calls a more privacy-friendly version of its Productivity Score enterprise feature, following backlash from security experts who condemned it as a “full-fledged workplace surveillance tool.” The Productivity Score feature, which was launched as part of the Microsof...
Congress unanimously passes federal IoT security law
The US Senate unanimously passed the IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act H.R.1668 yesterday. The US House passed the bill in September, so it is highly likely to become law, barring a Presidential veto. This is arguably the most significant US IoT-specific cybersecurity law to date, as well as the...
2021 Detection and Response Planning, Part 4: Planning for Success with a Cloud SIEM
This is the fourth and final installment of our series around 2021 security planning. Through this series, we talked to a previous CISO about how to tackle annual security planning, looked at driving more efficient threat detections, and also explored the benefits of greater SOC automation. In th...
adoption.petfinder.kz Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1457116
Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has:       a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence;       b. notified the website operator about its existence...
New Report on Police Decryption Capabilities
There is a new report on police decryption capabilities: specifically, mobile device forensic tools MDFTs. Short summary: its not just the FBI that can do it. This report documents the widespread adoption of MDFTs by law enforcement in the United States. Based on 110 public records requests to...
Ubiquiti Inc.: Camera adoption DoS - UniFi Protect
A vulnerability was found in UniFi Protect v1.13.7 and earlier that would allow an attacker to use spoofed cameras to perform a denial-of-service attack that could cause the UniFi Protect controller to crash. This vulnerability is fixed in UniFi Protect v1.17.1 and later versions. Affected...
A Successful Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) Project Requires User Adoption
IT help desks everywhere are having to adjust to the 'new normal' of supporting mainly remote workers. This is a major shift away from visiting desks across the office and helping ones with traditional IT support processes. Many reasons end-users may contact the helpdesk. However, password relate...
A Successful Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) Project Requires User Adoption
IT help desks everywhere are having to adjust to the 'new normal' of supporting mainly remote workers. This is a major shift away from visiting desks across the office and helping ones with traditional IT support processes. Many reasons end-users may contact the helpdesk. However, password relate...
Accelerate your adoption of SIEM using Azure Sentinel and a new offer from Microsoft
Take advantage of the efficiency benefits of Cloud-native SIEM using Azure Sentinel Today, security needs are evolving faster than ever—and the importance of being agile and cost-effective has never been clearer. Security teams need to get more done, faster, with less budget. On-premises security...
The Only Constant Is Change -- Rethinking Secure Access for a New Workforce
It seems like a long time ago now when IT teams had their annual strategy meeting, where topics related to network modernization with SASE or SD-WANs, remote access, threat prevention, and cloud adoption were likely discussed. COVID-19, however, has caused a lot of these initiatives to take a...
Build support for open source in your organization
Have you ever stared at the same lines of code for hours only to have a coworker identify a bug after just a quick glance? That’s the power of community! Open source software development is guided by the philosophy that a diverse community will produce higher quality code by allowing anyone to...
Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
I was quoted in BuzzFeed: "My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value," Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, told BuzzFeed News. "I'm not even talking about the privacy concerns, I mea...
PSD2 and Open Banking -- The New Way to Work Your Money
The main question behind the Payment Services Directive PSD2 and Open Banking: Is it innovative or just platitudes against competition? Open Banking allows a third party to perform certain acts with your financial institution on your behalf, such as enacting a payment or reviewing your spending...
So your company has decided to do FedRAMP - What does that mean?
The exponential increase in cloud adoption in recent years has led to a dramatic increase in technology companies evolving from software and application companies to Software as a Service SaaS, Platform as a Service PaaS or Infrastructure as a Service IaaS providers. The 2011 release of the Cloud...
User Survey 2020 Report Shows Rapid Growth In Apache Pulsar Adoption
For the first time ever, the Apache Pulsar PMC team is publishing a user survey report. The 2020 Apache Pulsar User Survey Report reveals Pulsar's accelerating rate of global adoption, details how organizations are leveraging Pulsar to build real-time streaming applications, and highlights key...
User Survey 2020 Report Shows Rapid Growth In Apache Pulsar Adoption
For the first time ever, the Apache Pulsar PMC team is publishing a user survey report. The 2020 Apache Pulsar User Survey Report reveals Pulsar's accelerating rate of global adoption, details how organizations are leveraging Pulsar to build real-time streaming applications, and highlights key...