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RSAC Fireside Chat: AT&T, WillJam Ventures partner to launch new MSSP — LevelBlue

The Last Watchdog

Related: The transformative power of GenAI/LLM This week at RSA Conference 2024 , AT&T announced the launch of LevelBlue – a top-tier managed security services business formed by an alliance with AT&T and WillJam Ventures. WillJam Ventures is a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in cybersecurity investments.

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Congressional Movement on Cybersecurity in a Bill to Reauthorize the Homeland Security Act of 2002

Data Matters

Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee ­approved a bill ( SB 2825 ) reauthorizing the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and including key cybersecurity provisions affecting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). On March 7, 2018, the U.S. to incentivize more cybersecurity training activities.

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RSAC insights: Security Compass leverages automation to weave security deeper into SecOps

The Last Watchdog

In this heady environment, the idea of attempting to infuse a dollop of security into new software products — from inception — seems almost quaint. History of product security. As a nod to security, nominal static analysis and maybe a bit of penetration testing gets done just prior to meeting a tight deployment deadline.

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MY TAKE: New ‘cyberthreat index’ shows SMBs cognizant of big risks, ill-prepared to deal with them

The Last Watchdog

Small and midsize businesses — so-called SMBs — face an acute risk of sustaining a crippling cyberattack. This appears to be even more true today than it was when I began writing about business cyber risks at USA TODAY more than a decade ago. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss the SMB security landscape at length with Gill.

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CISA adds 95 flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Security Affairs

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 95 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added 95 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Patch Tuesday Fixes Actively Exploited MOTW Vulnerability

eSecurity Planet

Microsoft’s December 2022 Patch Tuesday includes fixes for over four dozen vulnerabilities, six of them critical – including a zero-day flaw in the SmartScreen security tool, CVE-2022-44698 , that’s being actively exploited. Also read: Cybersecurity Agencies Release Guidance for PowerShell Security. Prioritizing Fixes.

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Webinar on the SAFETY Act and Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Reputation and Reducing Liability Risk

Hunton Privacy

In 2002, Congress enacted the Supporting Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act (“the SAFETY Act”) to limit the liabilities that energy, financial, manufacturing and other critical infrastructure companies face in the event of a serious cyber or physical security attack.