The Last Watchdog

MAY 18, 2022

These specialized tools are expressly designed to help companies get a much better grip on the sprawling array of digital assets they’ve come to depend on. For most of the past 25 years, company networks were made up of clearly defined internal boundaries encompassed by a hard-and-fast perimeter.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2022

Log4j is the latest, greatest vulnerability to demonstrate just how tenuous the security of modern networks has become. This is all part of corporations plunging into the near future: migration to cloud-based IT infrastructure is in high gear, complexity is mushrooming and fear of falling behind is keeping the competitive heat on.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 12, 2021

Related: Securing digital identities. Companies are adopting multi-cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures and relying on wide-open app development like never before. Now comes an emerging security discipline to help companies get a grip on all of these permissions.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 17, 2021

In pulling off that milestone hack, Paige Thompson took advantage of CapOne’s lack of focus on cloud security as the banking giant rushed headlong into leveraging Amazon Web Services. A slew of new cloud-security frameworks have gained traction since the Capital One hack. Here are the key takeaways: Cloud migration risks.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 28, 2023

Related: Demystifying ‘DSPM’ Rising from the din of 625 vendors, 700 speakers and 26,000 attendees came the clarion call for a new tier of overlapping, interoperable, highly automated security platforms needed to carry us forward. about the role of advanced wearable authentication devices, going forward.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 16, 2023

According to Lawrence Abrams, Editor in Chief of Bleeping Computer, the Clop ransomware gang began listing victims on its data leak site on June 14th, warning that they will begin leaking stolen data on June 21st if their extortion demands are not met. It was bound to happen. federal agencies, in addition to global corporations.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 23, 2022

Digital services get delivered across a complex amalgam of public cloud, hybrid cloud and on-premises digital systems. We simply must attain — and sustain — a high bar of confidence in the computing devices, software applications and data that make up he interconnected world we occupy. Failure is not an option.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

The amount of data in the world topped an astounding 59 zetabytes in 2020, much of it pooling in data lakes. We’ve barely scratched the surface of applying artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics to the raw data collecting in these gargantuan cloud-storage structures erected by Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 5, 2019

The Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) space is maturing to keep pace with digital transformation. Related: CASBs needed now, more than ever. One company still actively innovating as an independent CASB is San Jose, CA-based security vendor CipherCloud. This is especially important within the cloud.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Related: ‘SASE’ framework extends security to the network edge. That said, APIs are certain to get a lot more attention by security teams — and board members concerned about cyber risk mitigation — in 2022. based supplier of networking technology. Here are my key takeaways: Manipulating APIs.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our Public Key Infrastructure is booming but also under a strain that manual certificate management workflows are not keeping up with. As business networks shift into the era of cloud computing and agile software, the volume of digital certificates has swelled dramatically. This scaling up of PKI has put companies in a mad scramble.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Finally, Uncle Sam is compelling companies to take cybersecurity seriously. could take effect as early as May 2023 mandating detailed audits of the cybersecurity practices of any company that hopes to do business with the Department of Defense. This includes cloud providers and managed services providers.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 9, 2020

Security information and event management systems — SIEMs — have been around since 2005, but their time may have come at last. Exabeam is a successful security vendor in the SIEM space. Daughney Daughney stresses that SIEMs must evolve to keep up. Part of its Cloud Studio is the new Parser Editor tool.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 9, 2020

Related: The promise, pitfalls of IoT Companies have commenced the dispersal of IoT systems far and wide. Data collected by IoT devices will increasingly get ingested into cloud-centric networks where it will get crunched by virtual servers. The many privacy and security issues raised by IoT, however, are another story.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 30, 2021

Company-supplied virtual private networks (VPNs) leave much to be desired, from a security standpoint. Related: How ‘SASE’ is disrupting cloud security. Then a global pandemic came along and laid bare just how brittle company VPNs truly are. This has long been the case.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

Big banks and insurance companies instilled the practice of requesting their third-party vendors to fill out increasingly bloated questionnaires, called bespoke assessments, which they then used as their sole basis for assessing third-party risk. But, the company founders never intended to stop at simply cleaning up bespoke assessments.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 20, 2021

With the unprecedented need for workforces to work remotely, companies around the world were put to the ultimate test to keep the pace of business as usual, with limited disruption—many finding that balance difficult at best. Tue, 07/20/2021 - 09:40. 2020 was a challenging year for the world.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

Google was absolutely right to initiate a big public push a couple of years ago to make HTTPS Transport Layer Security (TLS) a de facto standard. Related: Malicious activity plagues the cloud services. This surge in TLS abuse has shifted the security community’s focus back to a venerable network security tool, the firewall.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

Related: Why it’s vital to secure IoT. The devil truly is in the details when it comes to how companies are hustling to leverage cloud infrastructure and spin up cool new apps. They’re in need of better ways to manage PKI, and it can’t be human error-prone processes. Ask Spotify.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2022

The blue-sky mission is to bring modern data mining and machine learning technologies to bear delivering personalized services that ameliorate not just physical ailments, but also mental and even emotional ones. I had a lively discussion with Craig Hinkley, CEO of NTT Application Security , about the thinking behind this crusade.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 6, 2020

Corporate consultancy PwC’s recent poll of 1,600 CEOs worldwide found that cyber attacks are now considered the top hinderance to corporate performance, followed by the shortage of skilled workers and the inability to keep up with rapid tech advances. Yet, stolen personal data for more than 10.6 19 on a hacking forum.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

To boost productivity, they must leverage cloud infrastructure and participate in agile software development. But this also opens up a sprawling array of fresh security gaps that threat actors are proactively probing and exploiting. And it doesn’t take enterprise-grade security systems to accomplish this.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 4, 2021

That said, there is one venerable technology – web application firewalls ( WAFs) – that is emerging as a perfect fit for SMBs in today’s environment, as all companies shift to a deeper reliance on cloud services and mobile apps. Related: Kaseya hack raises more supply chain worries. Here are the big takeaways: WAF resurgence.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Indeed, APIs have opened new horizons of cloud services, mobile computing and IoT infrastructure, with much more to come. Yet, in bringing us here, APIs have also spawned a vast new tier of security holes. Yet, API security risks haven’t gotten the attention they deserve. Thus security-proofing APIs has become a huge challenge.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Most Popular Data Security Webinars of 2022: Sovereignty, Cloud Security and Compliance Top the List. If you have already watched them, repetition is the mother of all education. Trends in Cloud Security: Key Findings from the 2022 Cloud Security Study. Thu, 01/12/2023 - 05:54.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 11, 2020

Organizations are increasingly outsourcing IT workloads to cloud service providers and looking to leverage IoT systems. A big challenge security executives face is balancing speed vs. security. Teeming threat landscape Security leaders’ key priority is reducing exposures to the cyber risks they know are multiplying.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2021

All of the technical innovation cybersecurity vendors are churning out to deal with ever-expanding cyber risks, at the end of the day, come down to protecting encrypted data. I had the chance to learn more about ABE from Brent Waters, a distinguished scientist in the Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab at NTT Research.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 18, 2020

Corporate America’s love affair with cloud computing has hit a feverish pitch. Yet ignorance persists when it comes to a momentous challenge at hand: how to go about tapping the benefits of digital transformation while also keeping cyber exposures to a minimum level.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Related: A primer on IoT security risks The big hitch with 2FA, and what it evolved into – multi-factor authentication, or MFA – has always been balancing user convenience and security. In terms of baking in security at a fundamental level of future systems, that’s very significant.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

That experiment conducted by a reporter for The Atlantic crystalizes the seemingly intractable security challenge businesses face today. This trend has greatly expanded the attack surface for malicious botnets to automatically probe and infiltrate company networks, at scale.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Related: Post-quantum cryptography on the horizon For decades, some of our smartest mathematicians and computer scientists have struggled to derive a third way to keep data encrypted — not just the two classical ways, at rest and in transit. Cryptographically speaking, this is the equivalent of moving the Himalayas, not just Mt.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 17, 2021

Ongoing basic research in advanced cryptography concepts is pivotal to putting the brakes on widening cyber risks and ultimately arriving at a level of privacy and security that makes sense. Yet at the same time, they’re also charged with keeping an eye on the eventual “productization” of all this rarefied research.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 20, 2022

Verizon’s Data Breach Investigation 2021 Report indicates that over 80% of breaches evolve phishing, brute force or the use of lost or stolen credentials. Verizon’s Data Breach Investigation 2021 Report indicates that over 80% of breaches evolve phishing, brute force or the use of lost or stolen credentials. Thu, 01/20/2022 - 10:19.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2021

It’s accurate to say that security has been bolted onto modern business networks. It also has become very clear that we won’t achieve the full potential of digital transformation without security somehow getting intricately woven into every layer of corporate IT systems. Here are the key takeaways: Connectivity vs. security.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 1, 2020

Deploying the latest, greatest detection technology to deter stealthy network intruders will take companies only so far. It turns out there are some housekeeping things companies can do while ingesting, leveraging and storing all of the data churning through their complex hybrid cloud networks.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

The cybersecurity needs of small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) differ from those of large enterprises, but few solutions cater to them. A 2018 Cisco Cybersecurity Special Report found that 54 % of all cyber attacks cost the target company more than $0.5 Security is just one of many complex responsibilities.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2022

Five Hot Security and Privacy Topics You Need To Understand in 2022. Panelists included security professionals from many well-established and successful organizations as well as consultants and industry leaders. Schrems II and the Security of International Data Flows. Thu, 01/27/2022 - 06:13.

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