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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

What’s more, it will likely take a blend of legacy security technologies – in advanced iterations – combined with a new class of smart security tools to cut through the complexities of defending contemporary business networks. Log4j, for instance, is a ubiquitous logging library.

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RSAC insights: Software tampering escalates as bad actors take advantage of ‘dependency confusion’

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The perpetrators of the Solar Winds breach , for instance, tampered with a build system of the widely-used Orion network management tool. Log4J, aka Log4Shell, refers to a gaping vulnerability that exists in an open-source logging library that’s deeply embedded within servers and applications all across the public Internet.