New TSA security directive is a needed shock to the system
The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced a Security Directive that will enable the Department to better identify, protect …
New infosec products of the week: May 28, 2021
NetWitness Cloud SIEM delivers cloud-based threat detection and response NetWitness Cloud SIEM is a cloud-based threat detection and response solution that delivers pervasive …
Why cybersecurity products always defy traditional user reviews
I read with interest the latest batch of evaluation data from MITRE on various endpoint solutions, this time focusing on the detect, response and containment of these various …
How businesses can protect their brands and bottom lines against damage from illegal robocalls
March 17, 2021 was a milestone in the war on illegal robocalls. The FCC levied a $225 million fine — the largest in its history — on a telemarketer for making 1 billion …
It’s time to shift from verifying data to authenticating identity
As fraudsters continue to develop increasingly sophisticated schemes that allow them to produce an apparent valid identity, either by stealing personal data or fabricating it …
Application security not a priority for financial services institutions
Contrast Security announced the findings of a report based on a comprehensive survey of development, operations, and security professionals and executives at enterprise-level …
Identity crime victims struggling with financial, emotional and physical impacts
Nearly 30 percent of people who contact the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) are victims of more than one identity crime. Their latest study covers the 36 months from …
Professionals are burned out and in need of a break
Many workers are worn out and ready to make up for lost vacation time, a research from Robert Half suggests. Professionals more burned out today than a year ago 44% of …
Kali Linux team releases Kaboxer, a tool for managing applications in containers
The team behind the popular pentesting Kali Linux distro has released Kaboxer, a tool to help penetration testers use older applications that don’t work on modern …
Open-source tool Yor automatically tags IaC resources for traceability and auditability
Yor is an open-source tool from Palo Alto Networks that automatically tags cloud resources within infrastructure as code (IaC) frameworks such as Terraform, Cloudformation, …
The evolution of the modern CISO
Ask anyone who has been around the cybersecurity world long enough and they’ll tell you just how much evolution the industry has undergone in the past few decades—particularly …
Adding complexity through simplification: Breaking down SASE
In an industry that’s not short of jargon and buzzwords, cybersecurity has a new acronym to reckon with: SASE, or secure access service edge. Introduced by Gartner in 2019 and …