Top 5 security risks of Open RAN
When a cell phone or other mobile device connects to the nearest cell tower, the communication takes place over something called a RAN — a…
AI in cybersecurity: Raising the stakes for enterprise defense
Artificial intelligence is supercharging the cyberwarfare between attackers and victims. Enterprises, governments and other organizations now have access to more powerful weapons in their defensive…
6 signs your IAM strategy is failing, and how to fix it
Companies have been developing and executing identity and access management (IAM) strategies for decades. “It started with mainframe time sharing, so nothing is new,” says Jay Bretzmann,…
Adversarial machine learning explained: How attackers disrupt AI and ML systems
As more companies roll out artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) projects, securing them becomes more important. A report released by IBM and Morning Consult in…
9 ways hackers will use machine learning to launch attacks
Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming a core technology for some threat detection and response tools. The ability to learn on the fly…
Bugs in the data center: How social engineering impacts physical security
One data center management team learned the hard way that bugs can be a menace — or, to be more specific, the people who hunt…
7 machine identity management best practices
Machine identities are a large, and fast-growing part of the enterprise attack surface. The number of machines—servers, devices, and services—is growing rapidly and efforts to…
Fantastic Open Source Cybersecurity Tools and Where to Find Them
Open source is a double-edged sword for information security. On the one hand, security professionals rely on countless open source security software tools, frameworks, and…
Microchip Adds Real-Time Security to Its Root of Trust Silicon Tech
Security is a multi-step process. There’s a chain of trust, with each link verified and authenticated by the one that comes before. But eventually, the…
Machine Identity Management: A Fast-Growing Frontier of Security
The number of machines enterprise security teams have to manage is exploding. When it comes to computing infrastructure, servers have been supplanted by virtual machines,…
Legitimate Security Tool Used Against Ukrainian Power Grid, Now Top Global Threat
Earlier this year, security researchers reported the use of legitimate security tools in multiple attacks against Ukrainian organizations, including government agencies, non-profits, and tech companies.…
What is the cyber kill chain? A model for tracing cyberattacks
As an infosec professional, you’ve likely heard about using a cyber kill chain to help identify and prevent intrusions. Attackers are evolving their methods, which…
6 Reasons Why More Automation Means More Secure Software
In an age when applications are broken down into microservices, and networks are distributed across regions and clouds, software is being produced faster than ever, in…
Who’s selling SASE and what do you get?
Demand for secure access service edge (SASE) has grown tremendously during the pandemic. As adoption picks up, vendors are promising feature-rich and integrated SASE solutions. Customers have…
Physical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: A Growing Problem for Data Centers
Modern data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platforms and other new tools put more power in the hands of facility managers. As a result, data centers…
Cloudflare Expands Email Security and WAF, Announces API Security Service
Cloudflare is best known for its content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services, but it has been steadily expanding into other areas of web security…
AWS, Azure Vulnerabilities Would Have Allowed Access To Other Customers’ Accounts
Researchers from Orca Security have found two vulnerabilities in Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure clouds that could have allowed users access to other customers’ infrastructure. Both Amazon…
Network Encryption: A Double-edged Sword for Cybersecurity
In 2013, less than half of all web traffic was encrypted, according to Google. Today, the rate of network encryption stands at 95%. On the one hand, that’s…
How attackers sidestep the cyber kill chain
The idea of the cyber kill chain was first developed by Lockheed Martin more than a decade ago. The basic idea is that attackers perform reconnaissance, find…
Gartner: SSE is SASE minus the SD-WAN
SASE adoption has been skyrocketing since the start of the pandemic. Secure access service edge, a term Gartner coined in 2019, combines security and networking…
Enterprises Need To Prepare for Broader Cyberwar
As the fighting in Ukraine escalates and it looks like Russia won’t have the quick and easy victory it anticipated, the war is already having…
Nine Best Practices for Zero Trust
With the escalation of hostilities in Ukraine, increased activity by cybercriminal groups, and an ever-expanding attack surface caused by enterprises migrating to the cloud and…
Why DevOps pipelines are under attack and how to fight back
In mid-2017, Russian state-sponsored attackers installed a malicious worm in a Ukrainian financial software package. When businesses updated their software, it became infected. The worm,…
As Concerns About Ukraine Mount, Gov’ts Issue Ransomware Alert
The first international joint advisory about ransomware was issued last week as concerns mount about a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine. Tensions rose even higher on…
By Looking at the Past, New Cyber Board Can Prepare Us for the Future
The Department of Homeland Security launched the country’s first Cyber Safety Review Board this month, a private-public initiative designed to improve cybersecurity. The CSRB will start…
Latest Cisco VPN Router Vulnerabilities Pose Risks To Small Businesses – And Their Partners
Last week, Cisco disclosed 15 vulnerabilities in Cisco routers, including five with “critical” severity ratings. The vulnerabilities, which affect the Cisco Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and…
Denial of Service Attacks Expected To Get Bigger, Nastier
A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack can take down a company’s infrastructure, communications, applications, or other services. It costs money to recover from such…
Top Three Use Cases for AI in Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity professionals are facing an unprecedented threat environment, with record-high numbers of attacks, shortage of qualified staff, and increasing aggression and sophistication from nation-state actors.…
Cato adds fine-grained CASB controls to SASE platform
SASE vendor Cato Networks is adding fine-grained cloud access security broker (CASB) controls to its platforms. When employees working from home or branch locations log…
Top 10 outages of 2021
The biggest outages of 2021 had one thing in common: they affected major infrastructure or services providers and, as a result, affected large numbers of…