Enterprise Data Security: It’s Time to Flip the Established Approach

There’s an old saying when it comes to big undertakings: Don’t boil the ocean. Well, there’s hardly any bigger project in information security than trying to protect corporate data. But the reality is that too many organizations today are, in fact, “boiling the ocean” when it comes to their...

AIL Framework - Framework for Analysis of Information Leaks

AIL is a modular framework to analyse potential information leaks from unstructured data sources like pastes from Pastebin or similar services or unstructured data streams. AIL framework is flexible and can be extended to support other functionalities to mine or process sensitive information e.g...

How Our Threat Analytics Multi-Region Data Lake on AWS Stores More, Slashes Costs

Data is the lifeblood of digital businesses, and a key competitive advantage. The question is: how can you store your data cost-efficiently, access it quickly, while abiding by privacy laws? At Imperva, we wanted to store our data for long-term access. Databases would’ve cost too much in disk and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: syslog-ng-3.17.2-2.fc29

syslog-ng is an enhanced log daemon, supporting a wide range of input and output methods: syslog, unstructured text, message queues, databases SQL and NoSQL alike and more. Key features: receive and send RFC3164 and RFC5424 style syslog messages work with any kind of unstructured data receive and...

Today’s File Security is So ’80s, Part 3: Dynamic Peer Groups – 3 Examples from Customer Data

In the first two parts of this series, we discussed why permissions management, the traditional approach to file security, no longer works and introduced a new approach to file security that leverages machine learning to build dynamic peer groups based on how users actually access files. In this...

Today’s File Security is So ’80s, Part 1: Why the Traditional Approach to File Security is Broken

In today’s knowledge-driven economy, modern enterprises have a fluid organizational structure in which most employees have access to most data to do their jobs. Working groups are formed organically and are cross-functional by nature. The amount of unstructured data organizations create is growin...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

IBM's Watson Supercomputer Tackles Security

IBM is leveraging the power of its Watson supercomputer to thwart viruses, ransomware and DDoS attacks. On Tuesday it unveiled an ambitious plan to feed Watson billions of data points from security sources daily so that Watson can spot anomalies as they happen and stop them dead in their tracks...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 update

Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 Update 1, which fixes one security issue, several bugs, and adds various enhancements, is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

EMC Atmos XML external entity injection Vulnerability(CVE-2 0 1 5-4 5 3 8)-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Affected system: EMC Atmos = 2.3.0 Description: CVECAN ID: CVE-2 0 1 5-4 5 3 8 EMC Atmos is used to store, archive and access massive unstructured data platform. EMC Atmos 2.3.0 and earlier versions of the XML parser there is XXE injection vulnerability, allows an attacker unauthorized access to...