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Enter the substitute teacher

Welcome to this weeks threat source newsletter with Jon out, youve got me as your substitute teacher. Im taking you back to those halcyon days of youth and that moment when you found out that you had a sub that day, will I be the teacher that just rolls in the TV cart and delivers the single...

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...

Top Challenges for Security Analytics and Operations, and How a Cloud-Based SIEM Can Help

As the attack surface continues to grow, the job of a security professional is getting exponentially more complicated. With the surge in remote work over the last year, this has only accelerated. To keep up and combat key security operations challenges, many organizations are making the move to t...

Why More Teams are Shifting Security Analytics to the Cloud This Year

As the threat landscape continues to evolve in size and complexity, so does the security skills and resource gap, leaving organizations both understaffed and overwhelmed. An ESG study found that 63% of organizations say security is more difficult than it was two years ago. Teams cite the growing...

Cloud Transformation and the Shared Security Model

For many organizations, the lure of the cloud is very strong. Large enterprises usually have several justifications for adopting cloud-based services including preserving capital, adding scalability to applications, and minimizing IT staffing needs. Small- to medium-sized organizations often look...

The Hacker News 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey – Call for Participation

For the first time, The Hacker News launches a comprehensive Cybersecurity Salary Survey aimed to provide insights into the payment standards of security positions, enabling security professionals to benchmark their salaries against their peers, as well as get clear insights into the leading role...

Addressing the Cyber Security Skills Gap, Part 1

Operating in an adversarial driven world, cyber defenders are faced with many obstacles. In effort to keep pace with our adversarial counterpart, the cyber security skills gap has become the silent oppressor. In Part 1 of this multi-part blog series we will define the implications presented by th...

The Growing Importance of Cyber Security Skills

By Bryan Davis Cyber attacks are on the rise and it isn’t just the large corporations who are targeted, anyone who does anything online is at risk of being exposed or hacked. The problem with digital crimes is that the culprit could be continents away. However, it isn’t just the hackers that you...

Edge no prior knowledge of the exploit-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The background set forth 2007 held so far, in the pwn2own contest, the browser is always the main event. Watch the game at the same time, I believe a lot of friends have been eager to try. But do you remember how many times full of confidence, last and all the time being put on hold? The article...

Top 5 Threat Hunting Myths: “Threat Hunting Is Too Complicated”

The cybersecurity landscape is in a constant state of change and, as many organizations have learned, it’s no longer a matter of if you’ll face a cyberattack, but when. In today’s world, attackers intentionally look normal to evade automated defenses. With the rise of ransomware, fileless and...

ARE YOU LEAVING YOUR SECURITY BACKDOOR OPEN?

Gartner predicts that enterprises will spend $96 Billion on cyber security this year, up 8% from their spend in 2017. That's a big chunk of change. To put it into context, that spend is in the same ballpark as the individual GDPs of Venezuela, Sri Lanka and Puerto Rico in 2018. Despite this,...

This Week in Security News: Warnings and WannaCry

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, we're following Ikea's job marketplace, TaskRabbit, which may have suffered a data breach. Also, the U.S and U.K warn against Russian cyber...

M-Trends 2018

What have incident responders observed and learned from cyber attacks in 2017? Just as in prior years, we have continued to see the cyber security threat landscape evolve. Over the past twelve months we have observed a number of new trends and changes to attacks, but we have also seen how certain...

Algorithms, Alerts, and Akamai Threat Intelligence

Let me start by posing a question: If in one week security solution A produces 120 alerts and security solution B produces 45 alerts, which solution is providing you with more effective protection? The answer is: It depends. On the face of it, solution A appears to be more effective because it's...

June 22, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Galileo Galilei” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! June 22, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: WannaCry Ups The Stakes For...

Google Patches 10 Chrome Flaws Ahead of Pwn2Own, Pwnium

Google raised the degree of difficulty for Pwn2Own and Pwnium hacking contestants by patching 10 vulnerabilities in its Web browser last night. The popular contests, which kick off tomorrow in Vancouver at the CanSecWest Conference, feature millions in prize money for researchers who can crack no...

Changes to Mozilla Security Program Foster Open Source Security Tool Development

Mozilla recently announced some changes to the way it will interact with members of the security community who contribute code, bug reports and fixes for the Firefox Web browser and other open source tools under Mozilla’s watch. Michael Coates, director of security assurance at Mozilla, recently...