This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Unveils New Cloud Security Platform, plus Thousands of Disney+ Accounts are Compromised

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, learn about Trend’s new Cloud One platform that provides workload, container, file object storage, serverless and application, and network...

How Machine Learning is Changing the Face of Financial Services

Artificial intelligence AI has become integrated into our everyday lives. It powers what we see in our social media newsfeeds, activates facial recognition to unlock our smartphones, and even suggests music for us to listen to. Machine learning, a subset of AI, is progressively integrating into o...

Adopting a Risk-Based Approach to Cybersecurity in the Financial Services Industry

Today’s financial organizations face many different risks in volatile and uncertain business environments, but the ever-present threat of cyberattacks and data breaches is now impossible to ignore. For this reason, managing these cyber-risks now has to simply be considered one of the many costs o...

Investigating identity threats in hybrid cloud environments

As the modern workplace transforms, the identity attack surface area is growing exponentially, across on-premises and cloud, spanning a multitude of endpoints and applications. Security Operations SecOps teams are challenged to monitor user activities, suspicious or otherwise, across all dimensio...

Ovum recommends Microsoft security to safeguard your hybrid and multi cloud environments

According to a new Ovum report, "Azure Sentinel…positions Microsoft to be a force for change in a security information and events management SIEM market that is ripe for disruption at the moment." As enterprises migrate to the cloud, they’re increasingly operating on-premises and cloud environmen...

Get security beyond Microsoft products with Microsoft 365

Over time, organizations and individuals acquire stuff. Things we love and things we need. Things we don’t need but can’t seem to get rid of. I was confronted with this challenge when we bought a 1908 craftsman home. How could I make my beloved modern furniture and mandatory kid-friendly gear wor...

Building the security operations center of tomorrow—better insights with compound detection

In the physical world, humans are fantastic at connecting low quality signals into high quality analysis. Consider speaking with someone in a crowded place. You may not hear every word they say, but because you are fluent in the language and can piece together context from the words, you can hear...

8 Tips and Best Practices to Build a Solid Cloud Migration Strategy for 2019

Here are eight fool-proof practices that can help you move your workloads to the cloud. A quick look at cloud migration. Cloud migration involves moving an organization’s data storage and IT operations to a cloud network. Cloud computing services are hosted in a multi-tenant environment and can b...

What's New in Security - March 2019

Today, Akamai announced the March 2019 Release with new features and capabilities across its security, performance, and media product lines - with a focus on helping customers better manage their cloud migration initiatives. Within security, Akamai has made updates to every product line to help...

Server Security for the Modern IT Ecosystem

A Changing Landscape In recent years we’ve seen a fundamental shift in the IT landscape, accelerated towards cloud and containerized infrastructures. According to Forbes, by 2020 it is predicted that 83 percent of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud. Moving beyond the cloud, software...

The evolution of Microsoft Threat Protection, December update

December was another month of significant development for Microsoft Threat Protection capabilities. As a quick recap, Microsoft Threat Protection is an integrated solution securing the modern workplace across identities, endpoints, user data, cloud apps, and infrastructure. Last month, we shared...

CISO series: Build in security from the ground up with Azure enterprise

As an executive security advisor at Microsoft and a former CISO, I meet with other CISOs every week to discuss cybersecurity, cloud architecture, and sometimes everything under the sun regarding technology. During these discussions with CISOs and other senior security executives of large...

IBM acquiring Red Hat for a whopping $34 billion

By Waqas IBM International Business Machine is acquiring the world-renowned provider of open source cloud software Red Hat, Inc., for a whopping $34 billion, the news about the deal was announced on Sunday. IBM plans to pay $34 billion in cash for $190.00 per share. After the deal, Red Hat will...

IBM Buys "Red Hat" Open-Source Software Company for $34 Billion

It's been quite a year for the open source platforms. Earlier this year, Microsoft acquired popular code repository hosting service GitHub for $7.5 billion, and now IBM has just announced the biggest open-source business deal ever. IBM today confirmed that it would be acquiring open source Linux...

Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Management (ADM)

The remote host appears to be running Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Management ADM, formerly know as Management and Analytics System MAS. ADM provides centralized network management, analytics, automation, and orchestration to support applications deployed across hybrid cloud and...

Cloud, Containers, Orchestration Big Factors in BSIMM9

As software and applications increasingly head to the cloud, traditional enterprise software security initiatives are getting turned on their head. The push to the cloud, experts say, isn’t just taking applications and services off premises: It’s redefining how DevOps and traditional IT departmen...

Delivering security innovation that puts Microsoft’s experience to work for you

Cybersecurity is the central challenge of our digital age. Without it, everything from our personal email accounts and privacy to the way we do business, and all types of critical infrastructure, are under threat. As attackers evolve, staying ahead of these threats is getting harder. Microsoft ca...

Code Execution Vulnerability in Multiple Micro Focus Products

Micro Focus Hybrid Cloud Management Containerized Suite is a product of Micro Focus, a UK-based company. Operations Bridge Containerized Suite is a containerized IT operations monitoring solution. A code execution vulnerability exists in multiple Micro Focus products. A remote attacker could...

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...

CVE-2018-6499

Remote Code Execution in the following products Hybrid Cloud Management Containerized Suite HCM2017.11, HCM2018.02, HCM2018.05, Operations Bridge Containerized Suite 2017.11, 2018.02, 2018.05, Data Center Automation Containerized Suite 2017.01 until 2018.05, Service Management Automation Suite...