VMware Enables Zero Trust Through Intrinsic Security

For decades, the central philosophy behind security has been to treat the network like a castle: Build the walls higher, make the moat deeper and wider. But the onset of the primarily telework environment within the federal government has moved much of the activity outside the network perimeter, ...

Deliver productive and seamless user experiences with Azure Active Directory

Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are still working remotely, and our organizations are still adjusting. Top of mind for every IT leader in this current landscape is meeting users’ needs for seamless access to resources while safeguarding the business from cyber threats. The...

Deliver productive and seamless user experiences with Azure Active Directory

Several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us are still working remotely, and our organizations are still adjusting. Top of mind for every IT leader in this current landscape is meeting users’ needs for seamless access to resources while safeguarding the business from cyber threats. The...

The NSA Warns That Russia Is Attacking Remote Work Platforms

A vulnerability in VMWare has prompted a warning that companies—and government agencies—need to patch as soon as possible...

Rapid7’s InsightIDR Introduces Integration with Cybereason

Ransomware is the fastest-growing type of cybercrime, and according to Cybersecurity Ventures, global ransomware damage costs will reach $20 billion by 2021—that’s 57 times more than it was just five years ago. With the increase in remote work this year expanding the attack surface, the threat of...

As Modern Mobile Enables Remote Work, It Also Demands Security

Smartphones, tablets, collaboration apps and other modern framework tools are critical to maintaining productivity remotely, but they also demand an integrated security strategy purpose-built for mobile devices. The coronavirus pandemic has completely upended the way we work, educate and socializ...

Pandemic, A Driving Force in 2021 Financial Crime

Financial cybercrime in 2021 is set to evolve, researchers say, with extortion practices becoming more widespread, ransomware gangs consolidating and advanced exploits being used more effectively to target victims. That’s according to key predictions from Kaspersky. Researchers said the drastic...

VMware Carbon Black Cloud Adds Device Control

With most organizations now working remotely, the chances your employees may unintentionally use restricted devices and infect your network has grown exponentially. With this threat in mind, we’re happy to announce the release today of device control in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud. Although the...

A week in security (November 23 – November 29)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we talked with Chris Boyd about charities that track you online. We also looked back at Zoom, and wondered whether its any safer months after its first vulnerability was reported. We talked about how Apples security is hampering the detection of potentially unwante...

Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2021

It is hard to believe that a year has gone since our last article on financial attacks and our predictions for 2020. It has been a tough one, but first things first. Let us review the forecasts we made at the end of 2019 and see how accurate we were. Then we will go through the key events of 2020...

How to Update Your Remote Access Policy – And Why You Should Now

For close to two decades, organizations have allowed privileged employees to work remotely by offering remote access solutions as a part of the daily work environment. But until recently, working remotely was more of a luxury than a necessity. With the rise of COVID-19, many organizations moved...

VMware Workspace Security: A Major Leap Towards Unified Endpoint Mobility & Security

The rate of change in the way people work, driven by the need to work remotely, has exacerbated IT and security concerns. And this change in the way we work is likely to be permanent as organizations see performance benefits resulting from the remote work environment. New work expectations have...

Modernize secure access for your on-premises resources with Zero Trust

Change came quickly in 2020. More likely than not, a big chunk of your workforce has been forced into remote access. And with remote work came an explosion of bring-your-own-device BYOD scenarios, requiring your organization to extend the bounds of your network to include the entire internet and...

Gartner names Microsoft a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers

The past few months have changed the way we work in many ways, working from home, social distancing, and remote operations have all had impacts on our previously known ways of life. At Microsoft, we have been working hard to assist our customers adjust to this rapidly changing and evolving work...

Gartner names Microsoft a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers

The past few months have changed the way we work in many ways, working from home, social distancing, and remote operations have all had impacts on our previously known ways of life. At Microsoft, we have been working hard to assist our customers adjust to this rapidly changing and evolving work...

Defining Security Policies to Manage Remote Insider Threats

Even as state and local governments begin to relax COVID-19-related stay-at-home orders, many businesses have adapted to having more people work from home. This trend is likely to continue: Among the top 20 percent of earners, the number of people that work from home is close to 70 percent,...

Empowering employees to securely work from anywhere with an internet-first model and Zero Trust

Like many this year, our Microsoft workforce had to quickly transition to a work from the home model in response to COVID-19. While nobody could have predicted the world’s current state, it has provided a very real-world test of the investments we have made implementing a Zero Trust security mode...

Extend data loss prevention to your devices with Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention, now generally available

Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Endpoint Data Loss Prevention DLP | What it is and how to set it up in Microsoft 365. Watch today Managing and protecting data is critical to any organization. Data is growing exponentially, and remote work is making it even harder to manage risks around...

Extend data loss prevention to your devices with Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention, now generally available

Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Endpoint Data Loss Prevention DLP | What it is and how to set it up in Microsoft 365. Watch today Managing and protecting data is critical to any organization. Data is growing exponentially, and remote work is making it even harder to manage risks around...

Secure Cloning: VMware Advances the State of the Art in Secure VDI Infrastructure

The need for security in the workplace has changed. Remote work is the new normal and the result is drastic changes to an organization’s entire attack surface area. Cybercriminals are taking advantage of this new reality by targeting the very means by which employees connect to corporate resource...