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Endpoint breach prevention by reducing attack surfaces

In this podcast recorded at Black Hat USA 2018, Chris Carlson, VP of Product Management, Cloud Agent Platform at Qualys, talks about endpoint breach prevention by reducing …

WordPress
Busting the security myth: Should I use WordPress for my website?

WordPress has been around for 15 years. Today it powers around 30% of the top 10 million websites on the internet. Being such a popular platform, WordPress has been in the …

data
2.6 billion records exposed in 2,300 disclosed breaches so far this year

Risk Based Security released its Mid-Year 2018 Data Breach QuickView report, showing there have been 2,308 publicly disclosed data compromise events through June 30th. After a …

cloud
Cloud computing remains top emerging business risk

Cloud computing ranks as the top risk concern for executives in risk, audit, finance and compliance, according to the latest survey by Gartner. In Gartner’s latest quarterly …

PowerShell
eBook: Windows PowerShell Scripting Tutorial

This promotion has ended. This PowerShell tutorial opens with an introduction to PowerShell scripting basics. It guides you through various topics, starting with launching …

firewall
Chaos and confusion reign with existing firewall infrastructure

Many organizations are still struggling to master basic firewall hygiene, promising increased complexity and risk associated with network security policy management for those …

DDoS
DDoS attackers increasingly strike outside of normal business hours

DDoS attack volumes have increased by 50% to an average of 3.3 Gbps during May, June and July 2018, compared to 2.2 Gbps during the previous quarter, according to Link11. …

keys
PSD2 SCA requirements will be implemented soon, are you ready?

As the second Payment Services Directive continues its rollout, regulations making it obligatory for organisations to implement strong customer authentication (SCA) in online …

Department of Defense
Hack the Marine Corps bug bounty program kicks off

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and HackerOne launched the Department’s sixth bug bounty program, Hack the Marine Corps. The bug bounty challenge will focus on Marine …

North Korea
Connecting the dots to North Korea as a threat adversary

Reports of malware campaigns invariably focus on two critical conclusions: attribution and who was the intended target of the attack. It is challenging to draw swift …

business
Three A’s of SaaS adoption, and why every company goes through them

I’ve noticed that as more and more companies turn to SaaS applications to power their business, they all experience the same journey along the way, more or less. Everyone goes …

risk
10,644 vulnerabilities disclosed in the first half of 2018

There have been 10,644 vulnerabilities disclosed through June 30th, according to Risk Based Security’s 2018 Mid Year VulnDB QuickView report. This is the highest number …

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