Managing Enterprise Security After the Data Supernova

As the amount of data continues to grow and expand outside of the enterprise, security leaders need to develop a plan to quickly secure it. The big promise of cloud computing was that it would simplify security. Organizations would no longer have to worry about securing their infrastructure becau...

Software Defined Perimeter - a Modern VPN with Traditional Challenges

Application Servers are implemented as a means of providing services and making resources available to users. However, any server connected to the Internet is inevitably targeted by malicious users using open listening ports. There are millions of these ports on the Internet, which means there is...

Wallarm to Sponsor AppSec Cali

If you are a SecOps or DevOps professional on the west coast you can not miss the premier California application security event: AppSec California, January 22–25th in Santa Monica. Here are testimonials from the previous AppSec Cali events: “I'm looking forward to AppSecCali next week. Last year...

Cryptomining Malware Uninstalls Cloud Security Products

Researchers say they have discovered a unique malware family capable of gaining admin rights on targeted systems by uninstalling cloud-security products. Instances of the malicious activity are tied to coin-mining malware targeting Linux servers. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, which published the...

Best practices for securely using Microsoft 365—the CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmark now available

This post was cowritten by Jonathan Trull, Chief Security Advisor, Cybersecurity Solutions Group, and Sean Sweeney, Chief Security Advisor, Cybersecurity Solutions Group. Were excited to announce the availability of the Center for Internet Securitys CIS Microsoft 365 Foundations Benchmarkdevelope...

The Year Ahead: Cybersecurity Trends To Look Out for In 2019

A Proven Record Tracking Cybersecurity Trends This time of the year is always exciting for us, as we get to take a step back, analyze how we did throughout the year, and look ahead at what the coming year will bring. Taking full advantage of our team’s expertise in data and application security,...

AWS Helping to Unlock Potentially Life-saving Innovation for the Healthcare Sector – While Keeping Sensitive Information Locked Down

Marnie Wilking – CISO, VP Information Assurance, Orion Health Many of the next significant, potentially lifesaving discoveries that will happen in healthcare will be the direct result of big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Making the shift to big data, machine learning and...

QSC18 Day 1 Takeaway: Continuous Transformation Demands Continuous Security

The first day of Qualys Security Conference 2018 was a big one. Both CEO Philippe Courtot and Qualys chief product officer Sumedh Thakar detailed the challenges faced by many of today’s enterprises when it comes to the growth of cloud and the complexity of their hybrid environments. And they shar...

Excerpts From: Do More with Less—How Endpoint Security in the Cloud is Helping Companies Stay Secure

If you're responsible for security at your company, you know that you're held back by things like limited budgets, a lack of skilled personnel, and too many security products complicating your stack. In Carbon Black’s recent webinar, we discussed how endpoint security in the cloud can simplify yo...

Managing Thousands of users in Hundreds of branches with a few clicks

We live in a global business world. Almost on a daily basis, we see organizations expanding rapidly across geographies. While businesses in every industry can have international sites, some verticals like banking, finance, education, and retail are more apt to have corporate offices in multiple...

Qualys Broadens Security Offerings for Azure

Qualys is expanding its security and compliance capabilities for Microsoft Azure, by adding protection for the on-premises Azure Stack and extending capabilities for public cloud deployments. By using Qualys’ platform to defend hybrid IT environments, organizations get a unified view of their...

Virus Bulletin 2018: Microsoft’s Lambert on How Cloud is Changing Security

MONTREAL – As businesses increasingly turn to the cloud and to software-as-a-service applications, they are finding themselves with new attack surfaces and new types of threats – specifically, hard-to-thwart supply-chain attacks that have the potential for large amounts of collateral damage. In a...

Perimeter Defenses are Dead, So Now What?

The castle walls, moat and drawbridge have been overrun. It is obvious to all of us – the use of perimeter defense as the key cyber strategy is dead. InfoSec Insider contributor Pravin Kothari Over time, the internet has added so many new entry points into the enterprise that they are unmanageabl...

hideNsneak - A CLI For Ephemeral Penetration Testing

This application assists in managing attack infrastructure for penetration testers by providing an interface to rapidly deploy, manage, and take down various cloud services. These include VMs, domain fronting, Cobalt Strike servers, API gateways, and firewalls. Black Hat Arsenal Video Demo Video ...

Microsoft and Imperva Collaboration Bolsters Data Compliance and Security Capabilities

This article explains how Imperva SecureSphere V13.2 has leveraged the latest Microsoft EventHub enhancements to help customers maintain compliance and security controls as regulated or sensitive data is migrated to Azure SQL database instances. Database as a Service Benefits Platform as a Servic...

Zero Trust Security Architectures

This introduction is Part 1 of a 5 part blog series. Jump to Part 2: Network Micro-Segmentation Jump to Part 3: Software Defined Perimeter Jump to Part 4: Identity Aware Proxy Jump to Part 5: Akamai's Approach to Zero Trust Introduction Most enterprises today operate hundreds of applications that...

Cisco Umbrella API Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Cisco Umbrella is a cloud security platform. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in the Cisco Umbrella API due to insufficient authentication configuration of Cisco Umbrella's API interface, which allows an authenticated, remote attacker to view and modify data in his or her organization...

Imperva Recognized as a 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant WAF Leader, Five Years Running

Gartner has named Imperva as a Leader in the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF -- for the fifth year in a row! Our combination of on-premises appliances, cloud WAF, shared threat intelligence and flexible licensing once again cement us as the best choice for companies ...

This Week in Security News: Air Canada and Cryptojacking

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Air Canada reported a data breach that exposed passport details for more than 20,000 customers on their mobile app. Also, Trend Micro’s...

Securing Container Deployments with Qualys

With container adoption booming, security teams must protect the applications that DevOps teams create and deploy using this method of OS virtualization. The security must be comprehensive across the entire container lifecycle, and built into the DevOps pipeline in a way that is seamless and...