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PCI SSC publishes PCI Secure Software Standard 1.1 and supporting program documentation
Version 1.1 of the PCI Secure Software Standard introduces the Terminal Software Module, a new security requirements module for payment software intended for deployment and …

Solve evolving enterprise issues with GRC technology
For this interview, we sat down with Blake Brannon, CTO at OneTrust, to discuss governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). More than 8,000 customers, including half of …

Research directions in cybersecurity to support a digital strategic autonomy
Resilience, technological sovereignty and leadership are essential for the EU and as such, they are addressed by the EU Cybersecurity Strategy. In an effort to support this …

SniperPhish: An all-in-one open-source phishing toolkit
SniperPhish is an all-in-one open-source phishing toolkit that pentesters and other security professionals can use for setting up and executing email and web-based spear …

Cloud Sniper: Manage and automate cloud security operations
Cloud Sniper is an open-source platform for managing cloud security operations that aims to make it easy for cloud teams to deal with security incidents. “One of our …

Product showcase: Accurics
It is no big secret that infrastructure has changed over the last decade. We went from tools such as autossh, to configuration management, and ended up with Infrastructure as …

Number of users of software-based facial recognition for payments to surge
The number of users of software-based facial recognition to secure payments will exceed 1.4 billion globally by 2025, from just 671 million in 2020, a Juniper Research study …

Infection Monkey: Open source tool allows zero trust assessment of AWS environments
Guardicore unveiled new zero trust assessment capabilities in Infection Monkey, its open source breach and attack simulation tool. Available immediately, security …

Open source security, license compliance, and maintenance issues are pervasive in every industry
Synopsys released a report that examines the results of more than 1,500 audits of commercial codebases. The report highlights trends in open source usage within commercial …

FBI removes web shells from hacked Microsoft Exchange servers
Authorities have executed a court-authorized operation to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server …

Worldwide IT spending to total $4.1 trillion in 2021
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.1 trillion in 2021, an increase of 8.4% from 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The source of funds for new …

Increasing need for ITOps process automation due to digital transformation
There’s an increasing need for process automation in IT Operations (ITOps) as a result of organizations’ digital transformation initiatives to meet customer and employee …