The Pitfalls of DIY Security for Your AWS RDS Databases

AWS RDS enables easy DIY database provisioning The trend toward using Database as a Service DBaaS is unmistakable. Organizations are leveraging DBaaS flexibility to bring new products and services to market faster, or to save time and money by reducing the cost and complexity of their database...

Securing Azure datacenters with continuous IoT/OT monitoring

Figure 1: Industrial cooling system for datacenters. As more intelligent devices and machinery become connected to the internet, Operational Technology OT and the Internet of Things IoT have become part of your enterprise network infrastructure—and a growing security risk. With every new factory...

VMware Carbon Black Named to the 2021 CRN Security 100 List

We are proud to announce that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named VMware Carbon Black to its annual Security 100 list. The Security 100 list features leading IT channel security vendors and is compiled by a panel of CRN editors, recognizing channel-focused security vendors across five...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM DB2 shipped with IBM Maximo Asset Management (CVE-2020-4701 and CVE-2020-4739)

Summary IBM DB2 is shipped as a component of IBM Maximo Asset Management. Information about the security vulnerability affecting IBM DB2 has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details Refer to the security bulletins listed in the Remediation/Fixes section Affected Products and...

6 strategies to reduce cybersecurity alert fatigue in your SOC

Today, organizations are faced with the increasingly difficult task of trying to protect their expanding digital estate from sophisticated cybersecurity threats. Migration to the cloud and a mobile workforce has dissolved the network boundary and projected the digital estate beyond its traditiona...

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...

Chimera - A (Shiny And Very Hack-Ish) PowerShell Obfuscation Script Designed To Bypass AMSI And Commercial Antivirus Solutions

Chimera is a shiny and ver y hack-ish PowerShell obfuscation script designed to bypass AMSI and antivirus solutions. It digests malicious PS1's known to trigger AV and uses string substitution and variable concatenation to evade common detection signatures. Chimera was created for this write-up a...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Evaluating individual and organizational cyber risk in a pandemic

Cybersecurity professionals find themselves in high demand as organizations worldwide continue to grapple with how to secure millions of remote workers. James Turner is an industry analyst at CISO Lens and served as an adjudicator from 2017 to 2019 for the Australian government’s cyber war games:...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Evaluating individual and organizational cyber risk in a pandemic

Cybersecurity professionals find themselves in high demand as organizations worldwide continue to grapple with how to secure millions of remote workers. James Turner is an industry analyst at CISO Lens and served as an adjudicator from 2017 to 2019 for the Australian government’s cyber war games:...

Questions to Ask Your Application Security Provider

There is a great deal to consider when evaluating application security providers. Understanding your goals will help. If your goal is vendor consolidation, then selecting those that offer multiple security capabilities over single products may make more sense. And if your goal is out-of-the-box...

The Weakest Link in Your Security Posture: Misconfigured SaaS Settings

In the era of hacking and malicious actors, a company's cloud security posture is a concern that preoccupies most, if not all, organizations. Yet even more than that, it is the SaaS Security Posture Management SSPM that is critical to today's company security. Recently Malwarebytes released a...

Why threat protection is critical to your Zero Trust security strategy

The corporate network perimeter has been completely redefined. Many IT leaders are adopting a Zero Trust security model where identities play a critical role in helping act as the foundation of their modern cybersecurity strategy. As a result, cybercriminals have shifted their focus and identitie...

Trend Micro OfficeScan XG and Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerabilities

Trend Micro OfficeScan XG and Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security are both products of Trend Micro, Inc.Trend Micro OfficeScan XG is a distributed anti-virus software.Trend Micro Worry-Free Business Security is an enterprise-class information security solution. Worry-Free Business Security i...

Automating and operationalizing data protection with Dataguise and Microsoft Information Protection

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. In technical literature, the terms data discovery, classification, and tagging are sometimes used interchangeably, but there are real differences in what they actually mean—and each...

Unified SaaS Application Security, Detection, and Response

Organizations are rapidly embracing Software as a Service SaaS applications for scalability, ease & flexibility of use, and the benefits of not using their own infrastructure. To maintain their focus on business objectives during the new ‘remote workforce normalcy’, organizations have fast-tracke...

Guide: How Security Consolidation Helps Small Cybersecurity Teams

The dynamic nature of cybersecurity, the changes in the threat landscape, and the expansion of the attack surface lead organizations to add more security solutions—from different vendors—creating a layered security infrastructure that introduces new challenges to any team, with a much more...

Sustainability Requires Collaboration: Akamai's Growing Community and Supply Chain Initiatives

picture courtesy of One Tree Planted Akamai is committed to collaboration that inspires worldwide change. We know it's not enough to be environmentally conscious solely in our own business. To make a true impact on climate change, we need to use our unique position as a global corporation to...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in ZXHN F452 at ZTE CORPORATION

ZTE Corporation is a leading global provider of integrated communications solutions. A denial of service vulnerability exists in ZXHN F452 of ZTE Corporation, which can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service attack...

Rocke Group’s Malware Now Has Worm Capabilities

Researchers have identified an updated malware variant used by the cybercrime gang Rocke Group that targets cloud infrastructures with crypto-jacking attacks. The malware is called Pro-Ocean, which was first discovered in 2019, and has now been beefed-up with “worm” capabilities and rootkit...

5 identity priorities for 2021—strengthening security for the hybrid work era and beyond

When I outlined the five identity priorities for 2020, the world was a very different place. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic has forever changed how organizations run their businesses. It’s also changed the way we work, learn, and collaborate. What hasn’t changed is the critical role identity...