Centralized Trust in Decentralized Systems: Unveiling Hidden Contradictions in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

Blockchain technology promises to democratize finance and promote social equity through decentralization, but questions remain about whether current implementations advance or hinder these goals. Through a mixed-methods study combining semi-structured interviews with 13 diverse blockchain...

DevOps Dilemma: How Can CISOs Regain Control in the Age of Speed?

Introduction The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack 2021 and SolarWinds supply chain attack 2020 were pivotal moments in cybersecurity, starting a new challenge for Chief Information Security Officers CISOs. These attacks highlighted the importance of collaboration between CISOs and DevOps teams...

How to Embrace a Cloud Security Challenge Mindset

CISOs responsible for tackling cloud security challenges need to rethink traditional security practices, protect apps and infrastructure they don’t control, and justify enterprise security investments. Trend Micro’s Bryan Webster told the AWS SecurityLIVE! audience it can all be done—by embracing...

Two Key Ways Development Teams Can Increase Their Security Maturity

Now more than ever, organizations need to enable their development teams to build and grow their security skills. Today organizations face a threat landscape where individuals, well-financed syndicates, and state actors are actively trying to exploit errors in software. Yet, according to recent...

Integrate Cybersecurity Incident Response in DevSecOps

This article examines the need for cross-functional integration and integrated communication between development and security teams to prevent communication dead zones and avoid delays in alerting and remediation...

Rapid7 Announces Release of New tCell Amazon CloudFront Agent

Cloud-native approaches to building, hosting, and delivering web applications are growing rapidly. Content delivery networks CDNs such as Amazon CloudFront are on the rise, pushing content closer to end users to improve the performance of web applications. To protect web applications security tea...

Help Net Security – ThreadFix 3.0 Review

Help Net Security recently published a review of ThreadFix 3.0. Security Researcher, Toni Grzinic, took a deep dive into our vulnerability management platform and broke down everything from infrastructure, reporting and analytics, to integrations, and beyond. Click here to read Tonis full review ...

Principles of a Cloud Migration

Development and application teams can be the initial entry point of a cloud migration as they start looking at faster ways to accelerate value delivery. One of the main things they might use during this is “Infrastructure as Code,” where they are creating cloud resources for running their...

Russian APT Map Reveals 22,000 Connections Between 2000 Malware Samples

Though Russia still has an undiversified and stagnant economy, it was one of the early countries in the world to realize the value of remotely conducted cyber intrusions. In recent years, many Russia hacking groups have emerged as one of the most sophisticated nation-state actors in cyberspace,...

Three Keys to Infusing Security into your Corporate Culture

Creating a security-oriented culture is a challenge for many businesses. There's a natural tension between development teams, that are under constant pressure to get new applications and features to market as quickly as possible, and security teams that need to protect critical systems and...