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The authentication advantages of mobile devices.
Pitts has been project manager for BITS since March 2010. In addition to managing technology-centric projects, special interest groups and other initiatives, he focuses on mobile and vendor-management issues. Pitts is the author and producer of the "Surfing Payment Channels" book series focused on emerging payments technology and associated security and fraud issues.
BYOD Best Practices
TRACY KITTEN: BYOD, or bring-your-own-device, is not a new topic. Why is BITS issuing best practices now?
JIM PITTS: Specifically, we're taking another look at BYOD because of the proliferation of mobile devices in the work place. We're looking at BYOD that has been impacted by mobile technology.
KITTEN: BITS recently conducted a survey about mobile and BYOD. When was this survey conducted?
PITTS: It was actually a couple of surveys, running tandem, and we wrapped those up in December as part of our overall look at BYOD for mobile. The members wanted to do some information sharing comparatively to see where the top institutions in the U.S. stood relative to best practices around mobile security, which was one of the surveys, and then also BYOD policy for mobile. We conducted a couple of surveys and the point was to share some of our best ideas and take advantage of learning from each other.
PITTS: Data loss was a prime concern to us ... but there are other areas of concern. Application security is a big deal with mobile, liability and legal issues as we talked about, and the new complexity of so many devices out there as endpoints or entry points accessing the system. Top of mind with mobile specifically is the lost or stolen device issue relative to it being an attractive piece of technology that's mobile and also could be left somewhere or perhaps easily taken.
But back to data loss, which of course was our key area of focus, we, in fact, were looking at data loss through the malware on mobile devices as one of our top priorities - data loss due to interrogation of the lost or stolen device, which I just mentioned, but also data loss due to the synchronization of mobile devices with cloud services and other unique and fairly new technology that's out there that's melding together in different ways; and then also data loss relative to transmission to and from the mobile device. Finally, we've always got to be concerned about the constant threat of potential intruders.
PITTS: One of the areas that requires a lot of focus is managing the employees, especially in the complicated world of bring-your-own-device. A lot of that is done by restricting access or restricting functionality relative to when it is okay to use a personal device. Things that have to be considered are also where you are and what kind of network are you on. Are you on the office network, which is easier to manage? Are you at home on your private network or at you at Starbucks on a public network? In all cases, you've got to establish security assurance levels that work for those circumstances. Part of that means I'll access or restrict access based on the functionality the employee is trying to access on their mobile device. Basic e-mail might be available in all cases, whereas accessing secure files and things like that may be restricted to the office network.
The way you do this is strong technology, and there are a lot of mobile-specific technologies that help you out there. But there are some of the basic good security technologies like containers, virtual machines and BPM networks. With mobile, like I said, it's very important to do effective mobile device management. Something that's wonderfully unique and special about mobile is there are so many ways to use multi-factor authentication because the device has all these wonderful tools associated with it to include voice authentication, visual authentication using facial contour with the camera. There are some folks out there playing with thumbprint or fingerprint authentication. It's got a built-in keyboard and a built-in digital keypad as well so you can do question-an-answer passwords and PINS. Beyond that, there's device identification that you could couple up with user identification and pair those up if you need to do that. You could look at GPS. There's just a myriad of things that we're going to be able to raise the bar with financial services using these devices. That's an opportunity.
From heightened risks to increased regulations, senior leaders at all levels are pressured to improve their organizations' risk management capabilities. But no one is showing them how - until now.
Learn the fundamentals of developing a risk management program from the man who wrote the book on the topic: Ron Ross, computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In an exclusive presentation, Ross, lead author of NIST Special Publication 800-37 - the bible of risk assessment and management - will share his unique insights on how to:
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Yet another fantastic post from Vinny Pasceri, Program Manager for the Windows Shell Team, appears over at the Windows Shell blog. Vinny sheds some light on what is involved in the feature design process here at Microsoft. He separates the process into three different parts: Page 1, The Spec and Building the Feature. Definitely a great way to understand the process we follow here at MS when designing and developing the features in our products.
Even better: Vinny's post actually includes a real feature spec for all to see! Check out the original feature spec for the Windows Aero Wizard UI.
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https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsvista/2006/09/27/understanding-the-feature-design-process-at-microsoft/
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It deletes the original file from which it was run once it is installed on the computer.
Agent. LHJ does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
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Microsoft said on Monday it and several partners had disrupted several cybercrime rings that used a notorious piece of malicious software called Zeus to steal US$100 million over the last five years.
The company said a consolidated legal case has been filed against those allegedly responsible that for the first time applies the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
Zeus has been a thorn in the side for financial institutions due to its stealthy nature and advanced spying capabilities that center around stealing online banking and e-commerce credentials for fraud.
According to a complaint filed under seal on March 19 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Microsoft accused the defendants of infecting more than 13 million computers and stealing more than US$100 million over the last five years.
The civil complaint lists 39 "John Doe" defendants, many of whom are identified only by online nicknames, such as "Gribodemon" and "Harderman."
It marks the latest action led by Microsoft against botnet operators. The company has gone to court before to gain permission to take control over domain names associated with the command-and-control infrastructure of botnets such as Kelihos, Rustock and Waledac.
The company has also initiated civil proceedings against unnamed operators but has had little success due to jurisdiction issues.
Mark Debenham, senior manager of investigations for Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, said the creators of Zeus -- as well as related malware such as SpyEye and Ice-IX -- sold "builder kits" to other would-be cybercriminals. Simple versions sold for as little as $700, while more advanced versions could cost $15,000 or more, according to Debenham's affidavit.
Microsoft also said this is the first time other parties have joined it as a plaintiff in a botnet case. The other plaintiffs are the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a nonprofit security organization, and the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA).
NACHA oversees the Automated Clearing House system (ACH), a widely-used but aging system used by financial institutions for exchanging details of direct deposits, checks and cash transfers made by businesses and individuals. It has been heavily targeted by Zeus.
In a single day in August 2011, 167 million phishing emails purported to be from NACHA were sent, according to a sworn affidavit included in the court documents from Pamela Moore, senior vice president of administrative services and NACHA's CFO. Those emails tried to entice victims into clicking links that led to malicious servers which would then install Zeus, she testified.
On a normal day, NACHA would only send out about 1,500 legitimate messages.
"The Zeus botnets have caused, and continue to cause, extreme damage to NACHA and its members, which, if allowed to continue, will be compounded as the case proceeds," Moore testified.
The court granted Microsoft and its partners permission to seize servers located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Lombard, Illinois, on Friday. Microsoft has also taken control of 800 domains that are part of Zeus' infrastructure in an attempt to completely wrest control of the networks from their operators.
Microsoft said the action resulted in the disruption of several of Zeus botnets, and it would now work to identify and notify people whose computers are infected with the malicious software. Also contributing to the action was Finnish security vendor F-Secure and Kyrus Tech, a security company.
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https://www.computerworld.com/article/2502089/microsoft-leads-seizure-of-zeus-related-cybercrime-servers.html
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Denis Mars is the CEO and co-founder of Proxy, which designs and builds privacy-first, human-led, identity technologies.
Over the years, I’ve had a front-row seat to the future of technology.
In my role at Y Combinator as director of admissions, I saw hundreds of startup pitches. Many shared a particular attribute: They followed the path of quickly growing users and monetizing the data extracted from the user.
As time went on, I began to see the full picture of what our technologies were creating: A “Minority Report” world where our every move is tracked and monetized. Some companies, like Facebook, lived by the mantra “move fast, break things.” Not only did they break things, they failed us by propagating disinformation and propaganda that, ultimately, cost some people their lives.
And that happened because of a growth-at-all-costs mindset. Some of the biggest consumer-facing Silicon Valley companies in the 21st century flourished by using data to sell ads with little or no consideration for user privacy or security. We have some of the brightest minds in technology; if we really wanted to, we could change things so that, at the very least, people wouldn’t have to worry about privacy and the security of their information.
We could move toward a model where people have more control over their own data and where Silicon Valley explores innovations in privacy and data security. While there are multiple long-term approaches and potential new business models to explore, there are ways to approach a privacy-first mindset in the near term. Here are a couple of ways to start moving toward a future in which people can have control over their data.
Workplace applications should lead the charge in enabling more secure identity technologies
We need to approach technology by consciously designing a future where technology works for humans, businesses and society in a secure and ethical way.
Approaching technological growth without understanding or considering the consequences has eroded trust in Silicon Valley. We must do better — and we can start in the workplace by better protecting personal data through self-sovereign identity, an approach that gives people control and ownership over their digital identity.
Using the workplace as a starting point for better privacy and security of people’s digital identities makes sense because many technologies that have been widely adopted — think personal computers, the internet, mobile phones and email — started out in the workplace before they became household technologies, thereby inheriting the foundational principles. With a return to office life on the horizon, there’s no better time than now to reexamine how we might adopt new practices in our workplaces.
So how would employers do this? For starters, they can use the return to office as an impetus for contactless access and digital IDs, which protect against physical and digital data breaches, the latter of which are becoming more common.
Employees could enter offices through their digital IDs, or tokenized IDs, which are stored securely on their phones. They will no longer need to use plastic cards with their personal information and photo imprinted on them, which are easy to fake or duplicate, improving security for both the employer and employee.
Tokenized identification puts the power in the user’s hands. This is crucial not just for workplace access and identity, but for a host of other, even more important reasons. Tokenized digital IDs are encrypted and can only be used once, making it nearly impossible for anyone to view the data included in the digital ID should the system be breached. It’s like Signal, but for your digital IDs.
As even more sophisticated technologies roll out, more personal data will be produced (and that means more data is vulnerable). It’s not just our driver’s licenses, credit cards or Social Security numbers we must worry about. Our biometrics and personal health-related data, like our medical records, are increasingly online and accessed for verification purposes. Encrypted digital IDs are incredibly important because of the prevalence of hacking and identity theft. Without tokenized digital IDs, we are all vulnerable.
We saw what happened with the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack recently. It crippled a large portion of the U.S. pipeline system for weeks, showing that critical parts of our infrastructure are extremely vulnerable to breaches.
Ultimately, we need to think about making technology that serves humanity, not vice versa. We also need to ask ourselves if the technology we create is beneficial not just to the user, but to society in general. One way to build technology that better serves humanity is to ensure that it protects users and their values. Self-sovereign identity will be key in our future as other technologies arise. Among other things, we will see our digital wallets house far more than just credit cards, making the need for secure digital IDs more critical. Most importantly, people and companies just need control over their own data, period.
Given the broader general awareness of privacy and security in recent years, employers must take the threat of personal-data vulnerability seriously and lead the way in self-sovereign identity. Through the initial step of contactless access and digital IDs in the workplace, we can begin to inch closer toward a more secure future, at least in terms of our own data and identity.
This article was originally published by Techcrunch.com. Read the original article here.
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https://cybersecurityreviews.net/2021/07/22/moving-fast-and-breaking-things-cost-us-our-privacy-and-security/
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Dr. Adam Bossler, the university’s cybercrime expert, was featured in a University news report on October 27. He provided tips to prevent hacking and cybercrime victimization in honor of October being National Cyber Security Awareness Month.
In response to a question about daily activities that can prevent hackers from accessing personal information, Bossler says, “Protect your personal passwords, private photos and personal identifiable information (PII). With the recent celebrity attacks, don’t take private photos that you wouldn’t want shared. Even though a user may delete the photos, hackers are still able to access them on other servers or in the cloud. In addition, carefully monitor your credit card and bank statements. If you see fraudulent charges, contact the credit card company to immediately resolve them. Never wait.”
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https://cbss.georgiasouthern.edu/blog/2014/10/27/bossler-offers-tips-to-avoid-cybercrime/
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Sepaton, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class disk-based data protection platforms, unveiled its next-generation platform, consisting of version 6.0 software, which drives its new S2100-ES2 Series 1910/2910 system. The new platform delivers grid scalability of both performance and capacity; high performance; multi-protocol support; high-reliability; and deduplication. The new product is both an enabler of private-cloud computing as well as a platform for the data protection capabilities required in enormous scale-out storage environments.
Sepaton's target market is large enterprises that have a massive amounts of enterprise data, Linda Mentzer, vice president of product and program management at Sepaton, tells 5 Minute Briefing. But while the amount of data that they have to protect is growing exponentially, their backup windows are not changing, observes Mentzer. These companies still need to do backups in 8 hours or less during the week, and then over the weekend. With Sepaton's massively scalable grid architecture, Mentzer says, "we provide a data protection platform that can meet their needs today, but that can scale with them into the future, so that they only have to manage, patch and optimize one platform as opposed to having to bring in multiple platforms."
Sepaton's version 6.0 data protection platform provides several key enhancements. With performance of up to 1500 MB/sec/node, the S2100 more than doubles the performance of previous models, the vendor says. The platform features 64-bit hardware and software for maximum processing performance as well as improved power efficiency, dynamic power management, and a more flexible 2U form factor.
The S2100-ES2 platform also now supports Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage (OST) on 10 Gb Ethernet concurrently with Fibre Channel tape emulation, Sepaton says, helping to reduce enterprise technology and platform migration issues.
The new platform uses Hitachi Data Systems AMS 2100 disk arrays to deliver 99.999% data availability and features a variety of high reliability enhancements, including automatic snapshots of the DeltaStor database, a more streamlined software installation process; automatic verification of software versions on all nodes, intelligent handling of full storage pools, and redundant links between nodes.
Sepaton has enhanced ContentAware technology that deduplicates both progressive incremental IBM Tivoli Storage Manager backups and multi-streamed database backups. Enhancements in the new S2100 software deliver high deduplication ratios for a broad set of TSM environments and use cases. For more information, go here.
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Since the COVID-19 lockdowns sent millions of Australian office workers home, the risk and occurrence of data breaches has skyrocketed. Some organisations have responded to the heightened risk better than others. In some cases, increased vigilance has improved information security measures. However, the net effect is likely to be a marked increase in the number of data breaches (including those which must be notified).
There are several factors behind this. Firstly, many organisations were completely unprepared for a situation requiring their employees to take their work home with them. In the mad rush to enable this, information security took a back seat. IT support departments found themselves under extreme pressure and often took shortcuts to increase throughput while responding to the slew of support tickets from those working remotely for the first time. Many organisations by default allowed the use of personal devices for work purposes, resulting in personal information being saved on unsecured storage disks and sensitive communications being transmitted over poorly configured home Wi-Fi. This was the perfect storm for a significant uptick in 'human error'-induced data breaches.
At the same time, the coronavirus crisis has given cyber criminals a special opportunity to exploit systems using a range of techniques, including those involving social engineering, phishing and spoofing. A flurry of COVID-19-related communications within and between organisations and government authorities blew open the door for malicious actors to propagate malware, harvest personal information and intercept private/confidential messages.
Unfortunately, the retail and hospitality sector has been found largely unprepared to respond to new and changing requirements for contact tracing. Frontline workers were given limited (if any) support in establishing good practices for the collection of personal information, inadvertently generating treasure troves of customer contact details – which are irresistible 'honey pots' to hackers who are able to sell such information for telemarketing and lead generation (and, not to mention, more nefarious purposes on the dark web).
Against this extreme backdrop is highlighted both the: (i) ongoing necessity of preparedness for data breaches; and (ii) the lack of such preparedness in most of corporate Australia.
The policy rationale for notification of certain data breaches is, quite simply, to protect individuals – including your customers. If you are holding their personal information, you are responsible for it. When a data breach occurs, you have lost control of it and the individual needs to know so they can take action to protect themselves if necessary. Given the regulator also has a role in protecting individuals' personal information, it is necessary to notify them too so they can support both your organisation and the individual in taking appropriate action.
Failure to notify in the event of a certain type of data breach can put individuals in harm's way. It undermines those individuals' trust in your organisation. Getting data breach notification right is important for your organisation's reputation, maintaining the trust of your stakeholders and your social licence to collect and hold personal information.
drafted template communications to notify, if appropriate, relevant parties of the occurrence of a data breach.
All these aspects, which allow for calm and methodical—as opposed to a chaotic and manic—data breach response are included in a Data Breach Response Plan (DBRP).
guide the organisation through what is often an intense and scary time.
Also, drilling or testing the DBRP via an exercise involving those allocated roles in the DBRP is a great way to ensure your DBRP is right for you and build 'muscle memory'.
trigger points and contact details for escalation to external advisers.
We also recommend including a ready-to-use escalation form as an attachment or annexure to the DBRP.
We have prepared a flowchart describing the process of assessing whether a data breach is notifiable under the Privacy Act which will help you prepare your DBRP (but is not a substitute for a DBRP). This is available on request and can be used as a guide or adapted for inclusion in your DBRP.
How do I ensure staff and employees actually use our DBRP?
An organisation can have the perfect DBRP but it will amount to nothing if it is filed away in an obscure folder on the company intranet and never used.
The best way to ensure awareness of your DBRP is to ensure that every staff member and contractor is made aware of it, trained on it and, where relevant, has the chance to put it into practice. As we know, information retention dramatically improves the more 'active' the style of learning. Don't bore your staff with an online training video or a lecture. Instead, put them in teams and get them to compete in a 'crisis cabinet'-style cyber drill. These sessions can be held virtually and are best run by your privacy officer in conjunction with an external facilitator. We also recommend these drills as essential for those individuals allocated more significant roles (e.g. decision-making roles) under the DBRP.
How do I comply with data breach notification regimes around the world?
Many organisations, particularly those operating digital-first businesses, have operations spanning multiple jurisdictions. A single data breach can also have regulatory consequences across borders. An emerging challenge for organisations operating in such an interconnected business environment is that of multi-jurisdictional privacy compliance.
Running in tandem with legal compliance is the challenge of keeping up with industry standards. A number of industry frameworks for information security compliance (with a focus on technical security controls) are currently vying for popular uptake in the market. However, from our experience advising global companies on privacy compliance, the frontrunner is the ISO/IEC 27701:2019 standard (ISO 27701). ISO 27701 requirements address aspects of data breach notification to enable you to comply with, in addition to Australian requirements, those of the GDPR and the privacy laws in other jurisdictions. While standards like ISO 27701 are agnostic as to specific legal requirements in different countries they provide tools that will help you develop a compliant framework for your organisation across multiple jurisdictions.
Your compliance with data breach notification requirements in multiple jurisdictions can therefore be supported by building out your existing compliance program (e.g. against ISO 27701). Of course, adopting these standards will also support an uplift of other areas of your privacy compliance (i.e. in addition to data breach response and notification).
Your DBRP must accommodate and comply with each relevant country's data breach notification requirements but, somewhat surprisingly, in most cases this is not too difficult. The difficulty is often developing an appropriate DBRP in the first place.
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Anjuna Security Inc., the Enterprise Enclaves company, today announced Anjuna Enterprise Enclaves optimized for the newly announced 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. This enables enterprises to easily run any application or data within the secure confines of an Anjuna Enterprise Enclave on both public clouds and private confidential computing infrastructure.
The new Intel Xeon Scalable processors combine a balanced architecture with built-in acceleration and advanced security capabilities. They include Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) for enhanced protection of data and application code and Intel Crypto Acceleration for encryption-intensive workloads.
Intel SGX addresses one of the most vexing flaws in enterprise data security: Data could not be used and secured simultaneously—a flaw that could lead to an enterprise data breach. Anjuna Enterprise Enclaves make secure enclave adoption easier for the enterprise, enabling virtually any application to run isolated, encrypted, and more securely within Intel SGX-based enclaves without modification. Just as important, Anjuna Enterprise Enclaves software enables critical features for enterprise adoption, such as integration with IT operational systems.
Tradeoff between security and performance "We have worked closely with Intel to optimize both the performance and scalability of Anjuna Enterprise Enclaves with these new high-powered Xeon Scalable processors," said Ayal Yogev, CEO and co-founder of Anjuna Security. "The result is a boon for security-conscious enterprises, who will be able to leverage the high performance, strong security, and massive scalability of these new processors without compromise. This powerful combination eliminates the classic tradeoffs among security, performance, and ease of use that have plagued enterprise IT for decades. "The combination of Intel and Anjuna, alongside market-leading cloud service providers such as Microsoft Azure, are innovating more secure computing solutions that are essential to enterprise digital transformation," said Anil Rao, Intel vice president and general manager, Data Platforms Security and Systems Architecture.
Anjuna Enterprise software is available directly from market leading cloud providers, including Microsoft Azure. Software for on-premises systems and other cloud service providers is available directly from Anjuna.
For further information go to www.anjuna.io
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Listen to author Joel Dubin, as he reads from Chapter 20: Implementing a Security-Awareness Program.
Not only do you have to contend with meeting your own, internal IT-security standards, but you also have to face a wide array of government regulations and industry standards. Sometimes, it seems like you spend more time and resources on complying with these regulations and standards than on actually doing any business.
Regulations vary from country to country and from state to state within the U.S. On top of all that, additional, industry standards exist to be followed, such as the PCI DSS for companies that issue or accept credit cards (meaning almost every company today). Although it's not a government body, the PCI Security Standards Council wields as much power as one. In the worst-case scenario, it will ban a noncompliant company from using credit cards at all.
Furthermore, if you do business globally, you'll have additional sets of regulatory headaches.
Despite the thicket of different regulations, similar threads run throughout all of them. Organizing your security program along these lines will provide a good first step toward meeting any compliance mandate, even new ones that may arise.
Important
Bear in mind that compliance doesn't equal security. Some regulations do offer a good framework that, if followed to the letter, will take your company far on the road to achieving a high level of information security. However, checking off everything on someone else's checklist will not meet your internal IT-security requirements. You'll need to keep your eye on your own security program while making sure that it meshes with the compliance requirements — a delicate balance, indeed, at times.
Here is a sample of the most common government regulations and industry standards that you'll most likely face in the U.S.:
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Governs financial institutions and the financial controls that they use to ensure the accuracy of their accounting records. These controls include the IT-security controls that protect those records from unauthorized alteration or disclosure.
The Graham-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). Consists of regulations for protecting customer data in financial institutions.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Governs the protection of patient data in the health care industry.
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) guidelines. Regulates the financial industry and contains mandates for protecting online banking transactions. These guidelines are distributed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which regulates banks and reviews IT-security controls, among its other oversight functions.
California SB 1386. Governs the privacy of customer information and the disclosure of breaches for any business that is operating in California.
The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). Regulates companies that issue or accept credit cards. PCI is an industry body that consists of the five largest credit-card companies (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, and JCB).
Outside the U.S., some of the most common regulations and regulatory bodies are:
One strategy is to implement an overarching security framework that covers all the bases. Three of the most common are ISO 27001, COBIT, and INFOSEC from the National Security Agency (NSA). These frameworks provide excellent guides for benchmarking an information security program, and strict adherence also ensures compliance with most of the elements of the regulations just cited.
But even if you use these frameworks, you'll still need to make sure that you're compliant with the fine points of each regulation that affects your company. Unfortunately, multiple regulations and overlapping requirements impact most companies. The good news is that these frameworks make it easier to sort out and simultaneously comply with the regulations and requirements.
Another strategy entails working with your internal auditors. Too often, an adversarial relationship exists between auditors and IT departments — particularly IT-security departments. Auditors are perceived as by-the-book nitpickers who interfere with daily operations and ask a lot of meddlesome questions. But, the reality is that auditors can be the allies who both work with you to review your adherence to regulations and make sure that you're in top shape before the regulators come knocking on your door.
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Cybersecurity has traditionally been a subject only a few executives were expected to understand. However, as additional security concerns are spreading across businesses, cybersecurity now concerns all members of the C-Suite. For example:
The chief financial officer needs to ensure secure transactions between financial institutions or business partners.
The chief marketing officer needs to master how to securely leverage digital and social media without putting the organization at risk.
The chief human resources officer needs to know that digital recruiting processes are secure and personal data won’t be compromised.
Cybersecurity concerns and capabilities for each managing function should be harmonized under companywide priorities and principles. This presents new opportunities for the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). To get to this point, the organization needs to establish these key processes:
The CISO needs to interact directly with all C-Suite members.
The C-Suite needs to agree on what the company wants to do from a holistic perspective.
The CISO needs to facilitate these discussions.
Across each organization, there can be many solutions to address cyber resilience. A technology solution could be managed-security services; a financial solution could be cyber insurance; an operational solution could be a Computer Security Response Team (CSIRT); a legal solution could be fiduciary actions based on the advice of attorneys.
The key is to integrate these solutions into a cybersecurity strategy that supports the business priorities of the company. Many companies have not defined and assigned a person to lead that effort. This is a new space in corporate business management—and a new opportunity for the CISO.
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Google has issued an emergency security update pertaining to all Chrome users after it received confirmation that attackers were exploiting a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in the platform. The emergency update is highly unusual as it addresses just one security flaw, validating its urgency.
Google published a Chrome stable channel update announcement on March 25, confirming reports that an exploit for the vulnerability exists in the wild. All Chrome users are therefore advised to ensure that their browsers are updates as soon as possible. Not much else is known about the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1096, other than that it is referred to as a Type Confusion in V8.
Google isn’t saying much more than that there have already been attacks using this zero-day vulnerability.
Zero-day is the most dangerous form of attack because it means the vulnerability is known to hackers before Google could address and fix it.
As a precaution, the business has withheld certain information from the public, noting that complete specifics on how the exploit worked would not be made public until the majority of customers have the update.
Fortunately, Google was able to deploy a fix before the attack was widely publicised and Chrome version 99.0.4844.84 should be installed as soon as feasible.
The emergency Chrome update to version 99.0.4844.84 is unique in that it only fixes a single security flaw. As a result, all Chrome users are recommended to upgrade their browsers as soon as possible. This references the JavaScript engine employed by Chrome.
The lack of detail is not surprising as the flaw is already being exploited by attackers. Google will likely reveal technical details when an update is able to protect most of the company’s users. Remember to restart your browser after the update has been installed, or it will not activate, and you will still be vulnerable to attack.
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LINDON, UT – July 24, 2012 – AccessData announced the release of Cyber Intelligence & Response Technology Version 2 (CIRT 2). CIRT is first platform to integrate network and computer forensics, malware analysis, large-scale data auditing and remediation. The solution is an integration of four of AccessData’s proprietary technologies: the AD Enterprise network-enabled computer forensics solution, SilentRunner network forensics product, the data auditing capabilities of AD eDiscovery and — new in version 2 — AccessData’s new Cerberus malware analysis technology.
Traditionally, organizations rely on a number of disparate tools for information assurance and incident response. There are often multiple teams each focusing on one small aspect of a much larger cyber security picture. For example, a forensics team, a network security team, information assurance or compliance auditing team each use different tools and may or may not collaborate on a daily basis. According to Jason Mical, Director of Network Forensics at AccessData, these gaps in technologies and processes make it difficult for an organization to quickly identify when a security breach or data leak has occurred. Since perimeter defense and alerting technologies can only detect threats that have been previously defined, the ability to catch what tools, such as intrusion detection systems (IDS) and data loss prevention (DLP), miss is vital. “Today, when an organization discovers it has been compromised, it is often by accident, and usually long after widespread damage has occurred. CIRT is designed to provide 360-degree visibility into what is happening on your network to speed detection, root cause analysis and thorough remediation,” stated Mical.
By allowing users to correlate computer, network and malware data, as well as audit thousands of machines, CIRT gives organizations the ability to identify and address all types of threats, including zero day events, hacking, data spillage and advanced persistent threats. Using CIRT organizations can continuously monitor network traffic, computers and removable media, and can more quickly acquire actionable intelligence in the event of a cyber incident. In addition, with CIRT’s “check in” feature, CIRT users can monitor the laptops of traveling employees, even when they are not logged on to the organization’s network.
In a June 2010 article in the DoD blog, Armed with Science, head of US Cyber Command, General Alexander, stated “… we have been leaning forward and building an organization and a mission alignment that is more integrated, synchronized and effective…” In Mical’s view, integrated, synchronized and effective should extend beyond people and processes to include the technology deployed in facilitating incident response. In his words, “the incident response infrastructure is an organization’s last line of defense, so a few different teams, each juggling a bunch of tools, is not the most effective approach.”
One platform providing a single pane of glass through which users can see what is happening on the network and at the host level has been the vision of AccessData CEO, Tim Leehealey for the last decade. Key features of AccessData’s Cyber Intelligence & Response Technology include the following:
•Correlate network and host analysis to quickly determine root cause and more effectively chase down data spillage.
•Identify and triage suspected malware, determining behavior and intent without the sandbox or reliance on signature-based tools.
•Perform proactive and reactive enterprise audits to identify data spillage, such as personally identifiable information, payment card information or classified documents.
•Play back security incidents in real-time to gain a better understanding of an exploit or data spill.
•Build threat profiles and monitor to prevent incident recurrence.
•Continuously monitor the network and information assets, including removable devices, on or off the organization’s network.
•Perform batch remediation.
“By providing integrated analysis from multiple vantage points, as well as real-time collaboration among personnel and easy-to-read reporting for those at the top of the command chain, AccessData’s CIRT solution is the only product of its kind, engineered to better aid organizations in their efforts to stop the bleeding,” commented Leehealey.
“Organisations internationally are beginning to realise that there is a need for holistic cyber-security. The malware attacks plaguing the regions are growing not only in volume but also in sophistication. Merely having a firewall or basic security system in place is no longer sufficient. Both government and private enterprises need to address this by developing a security strategy that includes digital forensics and incident response," said Simon Whitburn, VP International at AccessData Group.
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Businesses face new obstacles all the time. Over the past few years, however, the frequency of cyberattacks have become a pending threat to organizations who are vulnerable, and has challenged the ways in which cybersecurity is handled for most.
Cybercrimes rose drastically during the pandemic, and while this influx has caused organizations to take cybersecurity more seriously, cyber threats aren’t going away anytime soon. Businesses can experience a breach at any time, but being prepared for such an attack can help diffuse the situation and avoid irreparable damage.
Let’s look ahead at some of the biggest cybersecurity trends for the upcoming year for insight into how businesses can get ahead of the curve.
5. Increased Demand for Cybersecurity Experts
Businesses will need to be more proactive about cybersecurity going into the new year. Even if you don’t think your business could be a target, cybercriminals don’t discriminate and will even target employees within the organization. Hiring a cybersecurity expert can help you and your employees stay vigilant through cybersecurity awareness training and provide regular security testing to ensure your applications are patched. It’s likely more and more businesses will be investing in managed service providers (MSPs) and Security as a Service (SaaS).
All businesses and individuals have access to tools that can significantly reduce the risk of cyber threats, but you have to be proactive. By acting on these trends and finding solutions for your organization, you can go into the new year with a truly secure business.
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In software development, DevOps monitoring is the practice of tracking and measuring the performance and health of systems and applications in order to identify and correct issues early. This includes collecting data on everything from CPU utilization to disk space to application response times. By identifying problems early, DevOps monitoring can help teams avoid outages or degradation of service.
In many ways, this may sound similar to the kind of monitoring used within any well-designed IT operation. However, DevOps monitoring goes deeper. The DevOps methodology guides teams through short cycles of planning, development, deployment, and review/evaluation. DevOps monitoring, if it is to be fully integrated, will therefore need to be continuous monitoring.
So, what is continuous monitoring? Continuous monitoring is the process of regularly and vigilantly checking systems, networks, and data for signs of performance degradation. Performed either manually or automatically, continuous monitoring typically involves using software to scan for vulnerabilities and track changes in security settings. Continuous monitoring aims to identify potential threats early, addressing them before they become an issue.
In this article, we’ll look at the motivation and use cases for DevOps monitoring. Then, we’ll consider what makes for a strong DevOps monitoring platform.
Let’s begin with the motivation. Why do our systems need DevOps monitoring?
Our system is built with so many moving parts. How can I keep an eye on everything?
The entire project feels like at times like an impenetrable black box. How do I get the visibility I need?
If you were to build improvements to areas like load balancing and security, or if you want to build process tools for things like rollback protocols and self-healing infrastructure, then you’ll need monitoring to help you see inside your applications and your infrastructure. DevOps monitoring can give you a clear, easy-to-consume, single-pane-of-glass solution, improving both your software delivery process and your final software deliverable.
The ideal DevOps monitoring platform will offer native integrations with your tools, or there should be trusted third-party solutions.
Every member of your team should be able to access real-time data from such a monitoring platform so they can proactively identify and remove bottlenecks. Your monitoring system should enhance your existing automation (and certainly not get in the way) while improving communication and providing security and safety controls.
You should also look for reports or dashboards that are viewer-friendly and readable on every level. These visualizations should present data within a larger systemic context and include dependency maps. Log streams—both cloud and local—should integrate with all layers of your stack and be easy to navigate. The platform should also provide historical trends and anomalies, as well as be able to correlate between events.
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https://www.crowdstrike.com/cybersecurity-101/observability/devops-monitoring/
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Ultimate Fire and Security is a specialist in access control offering a complete design, installation and maintenance package that is designed to each individual customer’s requirements.
We cover the installation of intruder alarms for all types of buildings from small houses and flats up to large factories, offices and warehouses.
We can also provide conventional and automated gates for your premises.
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Access control systems provide your business with the protection of your property, your personnel and your visitors. By managing and monitoring access into and from any area or building, our systems ensure the complete protection over any site.
We offer a range of solutions, from simple systems consisting of access control for single doors, ranging up to multi-site systems that incorporate multi card readers across multiple sites – we work with you to design a solution specific to your needs.
Our experience allows your Access Control system to be configured exclusively for your specific needs. It can be as flexible or as rigid as required, from allowing all employees access to all areas, monitoring employee whereabouts to a comprehensive system which can be configured according to levels of security across specific employees and areas of your business.
We can integrate your access control solution into your existing Building Management System if required.
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We offer several types of intercom systems ranging from voice only to the latest video technology linking multiple doors and rooms. Handsets also range from audio only to colour video and can have remote facilities for lock / unlock.
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On January 29, 2020, President Donald Trump signed into law the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”).[1] This agreement modernized the North American Free Trade Agreement (“NAFTA”) and contains provisions that reflect changes in society, especially regarding technology.[2]Moreover, the USMCA contains provisions in which the agreement mandates the three countries to create a legal framework for digital trade.[3]Based on this new provision, the United States should create a uniform set of federal digital and data security privacy laws that would make it easier for businesses and consumers to easily adopt to.
Negotiations over the USMCA began in August of 2018 when it was simply known as the United States-Mexico Agreement.[4] Canada joined the negotiations a month later to participate in the new trade agreement that would ultimately replace NAFTA.[5] The agreement was ratified by all parties when Canada signed on March 13, 2020.[6] Moreover, the USMCA contains digital trade provisions that protect cross-border digital trade.[7]
Digital trade is defined as a trade of products and services that are digitally delivered through the use of the internet and internet-based methods.[8]The USMCA digital trade provisions maintain transparent and effective measures that ensure American workers and businesses benefit from the new agreement’s promise for economic prosperity.[9] For example, the USMCA guarantees enforceable consumer protections, addresses cybersecurity concerns, and ensures that digital data can be properly transferred across country borders.[10] Moreover, the USMCA is guaranteed to cover almost all industries and excludes all government matters.[11] The USMCA’s digital trade regulations are important for businesses and consumers because they protect privacy and streamline border data.[12] Furthermore, the agreement requires the U.S., Mexico, and Canada) to develop a legal framework that would consider the guidelines of applicable international bodies and help protect the information of users of digital trade.[13]The adoption of this legal framework presents to the world a high-trade quality agreement that will likely force other countries to follow suit.[14]
As the USMCA calls upon the three countries to create a legal framework for digital trade, the U.S. should take steps to create a uniform set of digital and data privacy laws across all states. Currently, there are no standardized federal digital and data security laws.[15]Businesses currently follow state rules which vary significantly.[16]For example, in 2018 California implemented the California Consumer Privacy Act, giving California a wide range of new digital and data privacy laws.[17]Based on the guidelines in USMCA’s digital trade provision, the United States must create a legal framework for digital and data security laws that adhere to the rules set out in the agreement. Congress should create a uniformed system of digital and data security laws throughout the country. Thus, businesses will not have to adhere to multiple sets of rules state and federal. A federal law will preempt the patchwork of state regulations and simplify compliance for businesses. This will help businesses acclimate to the USMCA framework and will ultimately set a standard for a uniform system of digital and data security laws that protects consumers and businesses.
[10]See USMCA, art. 19, Can.-Mex.-U.S.; see alsoThe United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Fact Sheet: Digital Trade, United States Trade Representative, https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/fs/USMCA/USMCA-Digital_Trade.pdf.
[11]See NAFTA and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), Cong. Research Serv. 27 (Mar. 2, 2020), https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44981 (writing that one of the key provisions in the USMCA requires parties to the agreement to create a legal framework on privacy and online consumer protection and anti-spam laws).
[12]See Logan Finucan, USMCA: What’s in the Digital Chapter for Your Company, Access Partnership (Jan. 29, 2020), https://www.accesspartnership.com/usmca-whats-in-the-digital-chapter-for-your-company/ (writing that the USCMA benefits businesses because it creates efficient intellectual property rights and allows the flow of border data while maintaining proper privacy laws).
[13]See id. (quoting the USCMA’s provision that requires the three countries to create a legal framework for digital trade in order to protect consumers).
[14]See Finucan, supra note 10 (stating that the USMCA shows the world an example of a high-trade quality agreement).
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One of the most critical factors for choosing the very best antivirus for LAPTOP OR COMPUTER gamers may be the level of protection it offers. This kind of antivirus should never impede effectiveness or interrupt gameplay. To get gamers, it’s best to employ cloud-based antivirus security software, which can run in the background while not taking up excessive room on my computer. Cloud-based antivirus is especially useful, as it presents several other stuff and takes up very little space. This option is additionally recommended for the purpose of serious gamers who concern their PC security.
Meant for gamers, Norton is the best malware available. The security software is another well-known choice. You will probably find a trial version of McAfee installed on a fresh laptop. This trial version how transaction management software is good for thirty days, so it’s worth hoping it out purchasing the product. Avast! Antivirus is yet another option, although it’s certainly not free. Which commercial and home variation of this antivirus security software. It’s best for games, nevertheless it’s decrease, and the file-system check takes a long time.
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According to the research experts of Qurate Research, “Globally Wireless network security Market 2022 Insights, Scale, Share, Growth, Opportunity, Emerging Trends, Forecast to 2028.” The study is a collection of in-depth studies on many facets of the Wireless Cybersecurity industry. Global. It is an admirable effort to present a true, transparent picture of the present and future conditions of the global Wireless Cybersecurity market, based on reliable and exceptionally accurate data. corpse.
“Global Wireless Cybersecurity Market Insights, Size, Market Share, Growth, Opportunities, Emerging Trends, Forecast to 2028,” as reported by Qurate Research. Several in-depth studies on different aspects of the Worldwide Wireless Cybersecurity market are included in the report. It is a commendable effort to present an honest, transparent view of the present and future situations of the worldwide Wireless Cybersecurity market, based on reliable facts and Extremely accurate statistics.
The study looks in detail at the key players in the global Wireless Cybersecurity market, focusing on market share, gross margin, net profit, sales volume, product category, application new, recent developments and other factors. It also sheds light on the vendor landscape, helping players foresee future competitive movements in the global Wireless Cybersecurity business.
This study estimates market size in both value (millions of dollars) and volume (millions of units) (K units). Both top-down and bottom-up techniques are used to estimate and confirm the market size of the Wireless network security market, as well as the size of many other dependent markets in the overall market. body. To identify key market participants, secondary research is used, primary and secondary research is used to determine their market share. All splits and percentage splits are calculated using secondary and verified sources.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the Wireless Cybersecurity industry. In the second quarter, the sector showed signs of recovery around the world, but a long-term recovery remains a concern as COVID-19 cases continue to rise, especially in Asian countries such as India. Degree. series of failures and surprises. As a result of the epidemic, many changes in buyer behavior and thinking have occurred. As a result, the industry is under further strain. Therefore, the market expansion is expected to be limited.
3.2.4 Distribution channel analysis 3.2.5 COVID-19 impacts on the market value chain
3.6.2 Limits and challenges of the industry 3.6.2.1 Focus on weight reduction 3.7 Innovation and sustainability
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As Australians wake up on Monday with a new government after sending the Morrison-led one packing, this past election campaign has been one of the more shouty and incorrect elections in recent times, and not only from the candidates.
One of the more commendable efforts this time around has been the misinformation bubble-bursting work undertaken by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) on Twitter. Rather than just being a boring corporate account, it has got sassy and has been stomping on any misinformation or disinformation it comes across.
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https://infosectoday.com/cybersecurity/misinformation-needs-tackling-and-it-would-help-if-politicians-stopped-muddying-the-water/
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The appeal of Kaspersky Lab was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and it targets the DHS’s Binding Operational Directive 17-01, issued by the agency in September, this year. Last week, the US President Donald Trump reinforced the ban by signing the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2018.
According to Kaspersky Lab, the ban is unconstitutional as it infringes the company’s due process rights. The cybersecurity firm thinks that the DHS should have given it an opportunity to view the information and contest it before the directive was issued.
Additionally, the lawsuit of Kaspersky alleges that the decision to ban the use of its products in federal agencies is mostly based on rumors and media reports citing anonymous sources.
Despite the fact that some people do believe the U.S. government may have actual evidence that Kaspersky has been aiding Russia’s espionage efforts, there is nothing to proof this claim, and some officials base their accusations on news reports.
The cybersecurity firm says that it voluntarily contacted the DHS in July and offered them to assist with investigating the company and its products. However, instead of getting in touch with Kaspersky, DHS issued the 17-01 directive without any warning.
Kaspersky Lab also claims that while only a relatively small percentage of its revenue comes from the U.S. government, the DHS’s actions have had a negative impact on sales in the other sectors, in both – the U.S. and some other countries.
“Through Binding Operational Directive 17-01, DHS has harmed Kaspersky Lab’s reputation, negatively affected the livelihoods of its U.S.-based employees and U.S.-based business partners, and undermined the company’s contributions to the broader cybersecurity community,” the CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab Eugene Kaspersky stated.
In response to some U.S. Officials’ claims that Kaspersky’s software is dangerous due to the deep level of access and privileges it requires, the CEO of Kaspersky says that all security products have these capabilities and it’s not fair to single out his company without any evidence of doing wrong.
The cybersecurity firm has tried to clear its name by launching a new transparency initiative which features giving partners access to source code and paying significantly larger bug bounties for vulnerabilities found in the company’s products.
The Congress invited Eugene Kaspersky to testify in September, but he was unable to travel to the U.S. in time for the hearing due to visa problems. In October, a second hearing was announced, however, the CEO was not invited.
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“The trust we place in our digital infrastructure should be proportional to how trustworthy and transparent that infrastructure is.”Incremental improvements will not give us the security we need; instead, the Federal Government needs to make bold changes and significant investments in order to defend the vital institutions that underpin our way of life.” “The scope of protection and security must include systems that process data (information technology (IT) and those that run the vital machinery that ensures our safety (operational technology (OT).”
Under the Executive Order, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) also published a definition of the term critical software viz. “EO-Critical Software” in October 2021.
The Federal Government acknowledges that it can no longer depend on conventional perimeter-based defenses to protect critical systems and data.
We highlight the below two, from their initiative toward a sweeping government-wide effort to ensure that baseline security practices are in place.
January 2022: Memorandum on Federal Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) strategy
This memorandum requires agencies to achieve specific zero trust security goals by the end of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. These goals are organized using the zero-trust maturity model developed by Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
“The foundational tenet of the Zero Trust Model is that no actor, system, network, or service operating outside or within the security perimeter is trusted. Instead, we must verify anything and everything attempting to establish access.”
This strategy sets a new baseline for access controls across the Government that prioritizes defense against sophisticated phishing and directs agencies to consolidate identity systems so that protections and monitoring can be consistently applied.
A key tenet of a zero-trust architecture is that no network is implicitly considered trusted—a principle that may be at odds with some agencies’ current approach to securing networks and associated systems. All traffic must be encrypted and authenticated as soon as practicable.
September 2022: Memorandum on Enhancing the Security of the Software Supply Chain
The objective is to ensure Federal agencies utilize software that has been built following common cybersecurity practices. With the cyber threats facing Federal agencies, the technology must be developed in a way that makes it resilient and secure.
A Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) – an ingredient list for tech systems that organizations can consult when a new bug is discovered to see if they have vulnerable software needing to be patched – may be required by the agency in solicitation requirements, based on the criticality of the software.
SBOMs are designed to be shared across organizations and are particularly helpful at providing transparency of components delivered by participants in a software supply chain.
The above is part of larger enterprise cybersecurity and information technology (IT) modernization plan that ensures the Federal Government can deliver a simple, seamless, and secure experience to its people.
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Whether you engage a penetration tester to do an internal network penetration test, external network test, source code review, web application test or perhaps even a red teaming engagement, the tester will provide a report with distinct recommendations designed to be read, absorbed and prioritized for policy, process and operational changes.
This piece explains what to expect from a typical pen-test report and provides a step-by-step plan for using the recommendations outlined in the report to continually reduce risk and improve your security program.
It is important not to interpret a penetration-test report as simply a rundown of software vulnerabilities that need to be patched. While it may include a sub-component of such items, it should be expected the penetration tester will actively exploit weak processes, policies and misconfigurations, and resort to software vulnerabilities only when nothing else works.
It is also important to understand penetration-testing activities have a specific scope and time period associated with them. Be sure and take that into account and recognize there will likely be blind spots that may not have been covered, due to scope interpretation or time restrictions.
Pen-Test Postmortem
Consider a postmortem/post engagement discussion after the penetration test is complete. This should occur after all relevant parties have read the report, and at the discretion of the person who commissioned the activity. Considering involving multiple IT support and security personnel.
The postmortem discussion should focus on the penetration tester’s impressions of your overall environment. Experienced testers should have an intuitive feel for how your operation measures up against the many others they’ve tested in the past.
Security and IT stakeholders, such as systems administrators, should take advantage of this opportunity to engage the tester and ask questions to clarify recommendations. If they feel a recommendation is unreasonable or unrealistic, consider asking questions about compensating controls that might be considered. Example questions might include, but should not be limited to:
The key findings of a report are designed to provide an opportunity for the CISO or specific individual commissioning the testing to discuss with IT management about what the findings mean and how they relate to ongoing organizational risk. It is important to frame this discussion in a context of ongoing information security projects and priorities already identified.
The strategic guidance section, unfortunately, is an area where the reported information may not be as customized to your organization as you would like. A penetration-testing firm is an outside entity that lives within the context of your environment for only a short period of time. The testers cannot know your specific business pressure points and organizational culture.
If reported well, the strategic guidance section will address the key findings in such a way as to indicate what levers executive management can engage to help facilitate remediation of reported findings. The language may be fairly generalized, for example:
Provide operational priority for applying application patches in a timely manner.
Provide financial support to implement technology upgrades to specific services.
Provide financial support to enhance the security team personnel resources to implement or enhance the vulnerability management program.
Prioritize Pen-Test Report Takeaways
Organizations should consider leveraging the postmortem discussion, key findings and strategic guidance to ultimately re-prioritize or introduce new security priority areas to be addressed. Key findings and strategic guidance may also be a driver for information security policy changes and employee training program enhancements.
The classic example of a change spurred by a pen test revolves around strengthening authentication, usually implementing a stronger passphrase policy with accompanying 2FA mechanisms. This sort of change impacts policy, procedure, process and training.
The takeaways might also spur different actions depending on the maturity of the security program:
Mature information security programs may find the results of a penetration test help reinforce a list of remediation efforts that are already recognized.
Less mature organizations may be likely to find penetration-testing efforts end up generating a list of items that were not recognized or budgeted for, and in fact, may be a surprise and present a far more difficult executive discussion.
If you find yourself in a situation of shock and surprise, it may be your organization was not ready for the level of penetration testing that occurred. In that case, it may be better to fall back to assessing program maturity and providing recommendations to build the baseline program items first, before coming back for a repeated penetration-testing effort.
Produce a short list of high-priority action items to address in the near term. For example, if there are multiple unpatched operation system or application vulnerabilities, consider moving these to the top of the list along with simple misconfiguration corrections with little to no operating impact.
Create a longer-term, actionable, prioritized risk reduction list. The longer-term list should be factored into budgetary processes for technology and personnel acquisition. The penetration test report is unlikely to be the exclusive driver of longer-term priorities, but rather a contributor document that supports and enhances the organizational risk reduction strategy.
Consider making the technical findings and detailed methodology available to all technical staff responsible for replicating the findings, patching and remediating the technology, configuration and/or processes.
Create a checklist – and monitor it. With a checklist, remediation actions taken can be tracked through change management processes by the information security office and marked off the list as completed or enhanced, depending on the issue at hand.
Focus on Continuous Risk Reduction and Improvement
Ultimately, your pen-test results should be used to foster continuous improvement in your defensive security posture. You should understand the reported information reflects an outsider’s lack of familiarity and context, but that it also reveals potential exploitable weaknesses in your IT operation. When you receive this information, it may be a shock to the system, or it may be a reinforcement of what you already know. Regardless, to ensure you gain the maximum value from your penetration-testing engagements:
Listen to what the penetration tester is saying in discussion. There are similarities across all IT environments, and an experienced tester can spot weaknesses they have encountered before. Furthermore, attackers have the same knowledge and could potentially target those same weaknesses.
Spend time to absorb the reported information. Gain a clear understanding technically, tactically, procedurally and strategically of what is being communicated.
Consider a level of openness and transparency. Make sure your operational teams know penetration-testing activities will occur, and that it is not adversarial but rather a bi-directional learning process.
Take action on the policy, process and technical recommendations wherever possible. Doing so can hopefully result in a stronger, more defendable environment.
Schedule repeat pen tests. We suggest performing pen-tests on an annual or semi-annual basis to help can validate remediation and adjust to new technology vulnerabilities as they emerge.
Be prepared for new findings. The penetration-testing field is in a constant state of improvement. As time goes on, you might find testers using new techniques that bring forth new findings. In addition, introduction of any new technology in your environment will bring new security challenges to accommodate in your risk portfolio. It’s important to be aware of these issues and keep the level of engagement high, even as new findings arise.
Although reasonable efforts will be made to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the information contained in our blog posts, no liability can be accepted by IANS or our Faculty members for the results of any actions taken by individuals or firms in connection with such information, opinions, or advice.
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The deadline looms for U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s emergency directive for federal agencies to patch against the so-called ‘Zerologon’ vulnerability.
Source: https://threatpost.com/dire-patch-warning-zerologon/159404/
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There are currently 1.4 billion active Android devices worldwide, but what about the users behind them? Do they know about security patches and who is responsible for securing their device? How do they feel about privacy?
We set out to uncover the mobile security and privacy implications Android smartphone users take into consideration to protect their valuable information and data. We surveyed* over 8,000 Android smartphone users and found that they are security-minded, but only 12 percent believe that their handset manufacturer is responsible for protecting the security of their mobile device.
When it comes to the top privacy concerns of Android users, 50 percent reported mining of data and malware was what they worried about most. Gartner reported a rise in data mining and malware, and predicts that by 2017, tablets and smartphones will the source of most breaches. When you combine that with the fact that nearly 90 percent of Android users use only one device for both business and entertainment, users need to pay close attention to how they are safeguarding against threats. But Android users are not as aware of how to protect their smartphone against threats as we previously thought. Fifteen percent of Android users – almost one in six – did not know about Android security updates, which can leave your device vulnerable to malware attacks and more.
More than half (53 percent) rank both security and privacy as most important.
50 percent believe their smartphone is only somewhat secure.
The majority of Android users are using a PIN (45 percent) or password (41 percent) to protect their device.*
Only 1 in 6 users are aware of Android security updates.
For more about our Consumer Survey, click through our SlideShare presentation below.
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Verified Boot and Secure Bootchain, which uses the embedded keys to verify every layer of the device from hardware to OS to applications in order to make sure they haven’t been tampered with.
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Android OS hardening including additional security patches, improved random number generation and certificate pinning.
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Comments: On top of their strong resemblances to Ad-aware 5.83, all of the Ad-aware rip-offs in this family group use the same spyware reference database file (update.ref). Moreover, their scan logs are identical to those produced by Ad-aware 5.83.
* Note on BPS Spyware & Adware Remover: Sometime in early 2005 Bulletproofsoft released a new version of BPS Spyware & Adware Remover (version 9). This new version sports a fresh interface as well as a firewall. It also carries the alternate names Adware Cops (downloadable from adwarecops.com), Adware Striker (downloadable from adwarestriker.com),Spyware Cops (downloadable from spywarecops.com), or Spy Striker (downloadable from spystriker.com). Although the Adware Cops, Adware Striker, Spyware Cops, and Spy Striker applications might initially appear to be separate applications, in fact they are just the latest version of BPS Spyware & Adware Remover, only re-skinned. The Adware Cops, Adware Striker, Spyware Cops, and Spy Striker installers even download and install the full BPS applications from Bulletproofsoft.
+ Note on MalwareScanner: this application appears to be the first instance of a 3rd generation of BPS-based anti-spyware applications.
* Note: the version of SpywareNuker represented here is an older version that is no longer available. It is included here for archival/documentation purposes only. The new version (SpywareNuker 2004, see below) has no discernible relationship to any of the apps in this "family." Read this note about SpywareNuker.
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Masana, a leading provider of petroleum solutions, approached IsoMetrix to replace their manual and paper-based systems for managing its Governance, Risk and Compliance universe.
Masana needed a technology solution that brings their data into a centralized location, saves time creating detailed and accurate board reports and allows their HSE team to conduct trend analysis and manage risks by exception.
When Mashiza Zama, HSSE Manager at Masana Petroleum Solutions joined the organization, he immediately put his experience with digital risk management systems to work. “When I joined Masana, there was no system in place to manage HSE requirements. There were multiple, disjointed spreadsheets and it was extremely difficult to collate data and get an accurate picture of what was really going on in the business. We had no way to track HSE incidents, or actions related to the incidents,” he explains. “We needed a system that would bring all of our data together to give us a single source of truth.”
Masana experienced the same problems that many organizations face when using manual systems. “Data was constantly getting lost,” Mashiza says. “Incidents would be investigated, but the records would get lost. I could not get the historical data to determine what had happened before I joined.” Data was scattered in many spreadsheets, and it was time consuming to try collating data to build reports.
Sanelisiwe Xaba, HSSE Coordinator at Masana Petroleum Solutions, confirms this, saying, “It was a nightmare, you could not do trend analysis of any sort. Now with IsoMetrix, we are able to track trends and manage by exception.”
The Central Action Manager
Mashiza explains that the module in IsoMetrix that his team derive the most benefit from is the Central Action Manager.
The Central Action Manager is the heart of any IsoMetrix system. Actions are assigned to users in the system ensuring the close-out of all tasks and processes. Actions manage the process by which employees are held accountable for their responsible tasks. Actions and their progress are easily visible via the dashboards where they can be sorted by user and status.
The Central Action Manager allows Mashiza and Sanelisiwe to assign responsibility for each action and keep track of the status of each action. The system sends reminders of outstanding actions and manages escalations within the system.
Proactively managing risk
Mashiza explains that it is important for Masana to have a Risk Management software tool that allows him and his team to be proactive in their risk management. This is nearly impossible to accomplish with manual and spreadsheet-based systems.
An important aspect of managing their risk proactively is being able to perform trend analysis. They can see if certain non-conformances and incidents occur repeatedly. It allows for deeper insight into the business.
“We needed an integrated HSE management system that links audit, risks and incidents. We needed to see everything on a single platform.” When there is a non-conformance, the HSE department at Masana can easily check if the non-conformance has already been identified as a risk or caused an incident in the past. This helps them to implement preventative measures. “We can take more control of our risk management by being proactive. We would not be able to do this without having all of our data in one place, and that place is in our IsoMetrix system” he says.
Working with the IsoMetrix Team
Mashiza and Sanelisiwe both emphasize how much they enjoy working with the IsoMetrix team. During the project implementation, Masana found the IsoMetrix team to be knowledgeable and helpful. “IsoMetrix was always able to help us iron out our requirements. The subject matter expert helped us to configure the system to match our requirements exactly and help us to get the most out of the software.”
Since going live with the system, any issues that naturally arise have been dealt with, swiftly and enthusiastically. “We find our account manager to be engaging, and attentive,” says Sanelisiwe. “The team continues to work closely with us to help us get the most out of system, and anticipate our needs. The support team is also wonderful, we work closely with them, and whenever we encounter an issue, the team is on hand to resolve it as quickly as they can.”
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Symantec is committed to resolving security vulnerabilities quickly and carefully, culminating in release of a Security Advisory and any needed product update for our customers.
Symantec is a founding member of the Organization for Internet Safety and we follow the Responsible Disclosure guidelines developed by OIS. These guidelines encourage open communication between finders and vendors, clarify responsibilities between parties, and protect individuals, enterprises, and the internet infrastructure from exploitation whenever possible. We work closely with researchers who communicate vulnerabilities to us, and we give credit to finders who follow responsible disclosure.
At Symantec, vulnerability management begins in Product Development, where Symantec uses a variety of secure coding methods and analysis tools for vulnerability reduction. Some of our products are additionally certified to Common Criteria standards for security. In some cases, however, vulnerabilities escape detection, or new types of exploits are designed after we release a product, resulting in potential for security breaches in our customer's environments.
Symantec's position is that we are responsible for disclosing product vulnerabilities to our customers, but in general, no vulnerability should be announced until we have developed and thoroughly tested a patch and made it available to licensed customers.
Because our products are complex, interrelated, and used on a variety of hardware under many different configurations, Symantec cannot provide software security patches according to a set timeline. Each issue requires investigation, resolution, localization, and testing appropriate to its complexity. Development teams expedite security fixes as critical defects and will often work round-the-clock to deliver a sound patch if a serious vulnerability is found.
Responsible disclosure guidelines suggest that customers have an obligation to patch their systems as quickly as possible, and it is customary to expect patching to be completed within 30 days after we have released a security update. Customers should be aware that those who exploit security systems often do so by reverse engineering published security updates. Therefore, customers need to patch promptly.
Responsible security researchers work with the Symantec Product Security team through the email address [email protected]. Responsible finders understand that the customer's security is paramount, so they work with us to make sure the patch is available--and customers have had adequate time to deploy the patch--prior to discussing the vulnerability in public forums or releasing exploit code.
During the course of their work, Symantec employees may discover a vulnerability in another vendor's product. Symantec will follow responsible disclosure guidelines for resolving the vulnerability with the involved vendor. Our goal is to be a supportive, responsible member of the security research community.
If you think you have found a security flaw in a Symantec product, please send all supporting information to [email protected], using the PGP key posted below to ensure secure communication. Please do not send attachments; they will not be accepted. This address is intended ONLY for reporting product vulnerabilities. For general technical support, please refer to the Support section of our website.
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Sep 2, 2021 Flushing, NY, Usa Ashleigh Barty of Australia (correct) soon after beating Clara Tauson of Denmark on day 4 of the 2021 U.S. Open tennis match at USTA Billie King National Tennis Middle. Required Credit score: Robert Deutsch-United states of america Today Sports activities
NEW YORK, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Ash Barty, the No. 1 seed at the U.S. Open up, viewed on match point as her opponent’s backhand sailed extensive on Thursday, prompting the familiar seem of a linesman yelling, “Out!”
There was no line judge, however. The connect with was a recording, activated immediately after an superior procedure of cameras identified as “Hawk-Eye Live” tracked the ball until eventually it landed out of bounds.
For the 1st time, the tennis big has installed digital line-contacting on just about every court docket, changing human judges who were being responsible for identifying whether or not, say, a provide travelling at 140 mph touched a line the width of a ruler.
“I failed to even detect that,” said Chris Foglia, 48, a surgeon from New York, as he and his wife Melissa viewed Simona Halep choose on Kristina Kucova on Wednesday. “I have quite combined feelings – I like the human factor.”
But, a few minutes later on, he acknowledged how tough it was for the bare eye to decide balls struck with the total of pressure fashionable players crank out.
“Glimpse at that – it is really ridiculous,” he claimed, as a replay display inside Arthur Ashe Stadium confirmed Kucova experienced sent a groundstroke long by no far more than a several millimeters.
The match released Hawk-Eye Live on some courts in 2020 partly to cut down on-court docket staff owing to the coronavirus pandemic, but it stored line judges on its two showcase courts, Ashe and Louis Armstrong Stadium. Prior to that, Hawk-Eye was made use of only as a replay system when players challenged calls.
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With chair umpires the only on-courtroom officers remaining, the Open up has long gone from possessing a peak of 400 officers to a maximum of all around 130, Sean Cary, who oversees officiating for the U.S. Open, claimed in an job interview.
The reside method employs a dozen cameras all around just about every court docket, as nicely as 6 added cameras made use of solely for foot faults.
“The digital line-calling is offering a far higher stage of accuracy, and as a result it can be providing the players a lot more equitable enjoying industry,” Cary explained.
Hawk-Eye deploys louder, more insistent “out” shouts on close calls, though additional obvious types get paid a softer get in touch with, mirroring the way human linespeople are properly trained.
The United States Tennis Affiliation (USTA) recorded judges in a studio making calls, Cary said. Just about every courtroom can use both male or female voices, making certain players are not puzzled by calls designed on an adjacent court docket.
With Hawk-Eye Stay in area, players can no longer problem phone calls, removing just one resource of spectacular, maintain-your-breath times.
Some enthusiasts also pointed out that making use of the challenges, which have been restricted, was itself a form of technique that additional a layer of intrigue in limited matches. But some others reported they authorised of the change to avoid bad calls that could alter a match’s result.
The method suggests less confrontations concerning gamers and officials – a improve that left some followers nostalgic for the era when John McEnroe turned infamous for his profanity-laced tirades on court.
HUMAN Factor
“I think it is really wonderful mainly because they are unable to argue,” said Diane Mace, 65, in advance of her 71-year-previous husband, Ed, interjected: “And I believe it is not wonderful due to the fact they cannot argue.” “It takes away the human factor,” he ongoing. “Arguing places some emotion into it.”
But these types of conflicts can also convert hideous. Previous year, 3-time winner Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the match immediately after smashing a ball in anger and inadvertently striking a line choose.
In a 2009 semi-last, Serena Williams threatened to shove a ball down a line judge’s throat after a foot fault, earning a position penalty on match position that finished the contest.
Other sports have grappled with no matter if to wield know-how to lessen human error, with blended critiques from enthusiasts.
Key League Baseball, for occasion, is experimenting with automatic ball and strike calls in some minimal league games this 12 months. Some followers have clamoured for “robotic umpires,” substantially to the horror of traditionalists, who see the property plate umpire as essential to baseball’s charm.
In soccer, the use of a Video clip Assistant Referee (VAR) has drawn criticism from followers for a lack of consistency.
Cary reported the USTA has not designed any selections about Hawk-Eye Reside for 2022, although he acknowledged it may possibly be tough to go again to a less precise program.
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Google runs some of the most venerated cybersecurity operations on the planet: its Project Zero team, for example, finds powerful undiscovered security vulnerabilities, while its Threat Analysis Group directly counters hacking backed by governments, including North Korea, China, and Russia. And those two teams caught an unexpectedly big fish recently: an “expert” hacking group exploiting 11 powerful vulnerabilities to compromise devices running iOS, Android, and Windows.
But MIT Technology Review has learned that the hackers in question were actually Western government operatives actively conducting a counterterrorism operation. The company’s decision to stop and publicize the attack caused internal division at Google and raised questions inside the intelligence communities of the United States and its allies.
A pair of recent Google blog posts detail the collection of zero-day vulnerabilities that it discovered hackers using over the course of nine months. The exploits, whichwent back to early 2020 and used never-before-seen techniques, were “watering hole” attacks that used infected websites to deliver malware to visitors. They caught the attention of cybersecurity experts thanks to their scale, sophistication, and speed.
Google’s announcement glaringly omitted key details, however, including who was responsible for the hacking and who was being targeted, as well as important technical information on the malware or the domains used in the operation. At least some of that information would typically be made public in some way, leading one security expert to criticize the report as a “dark hole.” “Different ethical questions”
Security companies regularly shut down exploits that are being used by friendly governments, but such actions are rarely made public. In response to this incident, some Google employees have argued that counterterrorism missions ought to be out of bounds of public disclosure; others believe the company was entirely within its rights, and that the announcement serves to protect users and make the internet more secure.
“Project Zero is dedicated to finding and patching 0-day vulnerabilities, and posting technical research designed to advance the understanding of novel security vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques across the research community,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. “We believe sharing this research leads to better defensive strategies and increases security for everyone. We don’t perform attribution as part of this research.”
It’s true that Project Zero does not formally attribute hacking to specific groups. But the Threat Analysis Group, which also worked on the project, does perform attribution. Google omitted many more details than just the name of the government behind the hacks, and through that information, the teams knew internally who the hacker and targets were. It is not clear whether Google gave advance notice to government officials that they would be publicizing and shutting down the method of attack.
But Western operations are recognizable, according to one former senior US intelligence official.
“There are certain hallmarks in Western operations that are not present in other entities … you can see it translate down into the code,” said the former official, who is not authorized to comment on operations and spoke on condition of anonymity. “And this is where I think one of the key ethical dimensions comes in. How one treats intelligence activity or law enforcement activity driven under democratic oversight within a lawfully elected representative government is very different from that of an authoritarian regime.” “The oversight is baked into Western operations at the technical, tradecraft, and procedure level,” they added.
Google found the hacking group exploiting 11 zero-day vulnerabilities in just nine months, a high number of exploits over a short period. Software that was attacked included the Safari browser on iPhones but also many Google products, including the Chrome browser on Android phones and Windows computers.
But the conclusion within Google was that who was hacking and why is never as important as the security flaws themselves. Earlier this year, Project Zero’s Maddie Stone argued that it is too easy for hackers to find and use powerful zero-day vulnerabilities and that her team faces an uphill battle detecting their use.
Instead of focusing on who was behind and targeted by a specific operation, Google decided to take broader action for everyone. The justification was that even if a Western government was the one exploiting those vulnerabilities today, it will eventually be used by others, and so the right choice is always to fix the flaw today.
“It’s not their job to figure out”
This is far from the first time a Western cybersecurity team has caught hackers from allied countries. Some companies, however, have a quiet policy of not publicly exposing such hacking operations if both the security team and the hackers are considered friendly—for example, if they are members of the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance, which is made up of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Several members of Google’s security teams are veterans of Western intelligence agencies, and some have conducted hacking campaigns for these governments.
In some cases, security companies will clean up so-called “friendly” malware but avoid going public with it.
“They typically don’t attribute US-based operations,” says Sasha Romanosky, a former Pentagon official who published recent research into private-sector cybersecurity investigations. “They told us they specifically step away. It’s not their job to figure out; they politely move aside. That’s not unexpected.”
While the Google situation is in some ways unusual, there have been somewhat similar cases in the past. The Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky came under fire in 2018 when it exposed an American-led counterterrorism cyber operation against ISIS and Al Qaeda members in the Middle East. Kaspersky, like Google, did not explicitly attribute the threat but nevertheless exposed it and rendered it useless, American officials said, which caused the operatives to lose access to a valuable surveillance program and even put the lives of soldiers on the ground at risk.
Kaspersky was already under heavy criticism for its relationship with the Russian government at the time, and the company was ultimately banned from US government systems. It has always denied having any special relationship with the Kremlin.
Google has found itself in similar water before, too. In 2019, the company released research on what may have been an American hacking group, although specific attribution was never made. But that research was about a historical operation. Google’s recent announcements, however, put the spotlight on what had been a live cyber-espionage operation.
Who’s being protected?
The alarms raised both inside government and at Google show the company is in a difficult position.
Google security teams have a responsibility to the company’s customers, and it is widely expected that they will do their utmost to protect the products—and therefore users—who are under attack. In this incident, it’s notable that the techniques used affected not just Google products like Chrome and Android, but also iPhones.
While different teams draw their own lines, Project Zero has made its name by tackling critical vulnerabilities all over the internet, not just those found in Google’s products.
“Each step we take towards making 0-day hard, makes all of us safer,” tweeted Maddie Stone, one of the most highly respected members of the security team, when the latest research was published.
But while protecting customers from attack is important, some argue that counterterrorism operations are different, with potentially life-and-death consequences that go beyond day-to-day internet security.
When state-backed hackers in Western nations find cybersecurity flaws, there are established methods for working out the potential costs and benefits of disclosing the security gap to the company that is affected. In the United States it’s called the “vulnerabilities equities process.” Critics worry that US intelligence hoards large numbers of exploits, but the American system is more formal, transparent, and expansive than what’s done in almost every other country on earth, including Western allies. The process is meant to allow government officials to balance the advantages of keeping flaws secret in order to use them for intelligence purposes with the wider benefits of telling a tech company about a weakness in order to have it fixed.
Last year the NSA made the unusual move to take credit for revealing an old flaw in Microsoft Windows. That kind of report from government to industry is normally kept anonymous and often secret.
But even though the American intelligence system’s disclosure process can be opaque, similar processes in other Western nations are often smaller, more secretive, or simply informal and therefore easy to bypass.
“The level of oversight even in Western democracies about what their national security agencies are actually doing is, in many cases, a lot less than we have in the United States,” says Michael Daniel, who was White House cybersecurity coordinator for the Obama administration.
“The degree of parliamentary oversight is much less. These countries do not have the robust inter-agency processes the US has. I’m not normally one to brag about the US—we’ve got a lot of problems—but this is one area where we have robust processes that other Western democracies just don’t.”
The fact that the hacking group hit by the Google investigation possessed and used so many zero-day vulnerabilities so rapidly could indicate a problematic imbalance. But some observers worry about live counterterrorism cyberoperations being shut down at potentially decisive moments without the ability to quickly start up again.
“US allies don’t all have the ability to regenerate entire operations as quickly as some other players,” the former senior US intelligence official said. Worries about suddenly losing access to an exploit capability or being spotted by a target are particularly high for counterterrorism missions, especially during “periods of incredible exposure” when a lot of exploitation is taking place, the official explained. Google’s ability to shut down such an operation is likely to be the source of more conflict.
“This is still something that hasn’t been well addressed,” the official said. “The idea that someone like Google can destroy that much capability that quickly is slowly dawning on folks.”
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https://www.grayhathacktivism.com/tag/google/
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Because everyone can accomplish anything with only a few clicks, the internet has greatly aided people in improving and evolving. It’s fascinating to see how people have begun to make extensive use of the internet as businesses have begun to thrive. There are countless options to dig into, making it a terrific opportunity to explore and break limits. It also implies that there are several security concerns, as hackers are ready to break into your system and steal all of your sensitive data. Taking the help of cyber security services in singapore can be a robust method to deal with breaching of privacy which is why there are so many people who have taken service from these sites.
There are various methods to handle this problem, and it may be done in a variety of ways, as long as people are vigilant enough to prevent the hacker from gaining access to their systems. They should use a strong password that no computer can crack.
Cyber security services in singapore have a lot of expertise in the sector because they have their website where they discuss how they provide the service, which is why they have so many loyal consumers.
They provide a full description of the services that they have been delivering, allowing one to trust them blindly since they have been providing only high-quality service, which has helped several businesses from being stolen.
The greatest approach to safeguard your system is to ensure that you do not allow untrustworthy persons into it. However, because individuals cannot be aware of all mishaps at all times, this might take a long time. If you want to decrease your workload, hiring cyber security services in Singapore is the best option because they are well-versed in how to keep your system from being corrupt.
There is a lot of essential information on the company’s website, and if hackers get their hands on it, it could be disastrous for the organization. If you’ve been wishing to swiftly safeguard your company’s work and guarantee that no one enters the system to get away with a large amount of data on the internet, now is the time to call the professionals because of the job they’ve done for others.
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The value of cryptocurrency is down right now, but online criminals are still happy to generate coins using your hardware. Usually, this comes in the form of crypto mining plugins running on websites, but there’s a new form of Android malware spreading online that mines coins on your phone. The odds of picking up this particular virus are low, but it’s still a clever bit of coding.
The malware, known as ADB.Miner, was discovered by Chinese IT firm Qihoo 360 Netlab. The researchers report this is a “wormable” piece of malware, which means it’s capable of spreading to new devices over a Wi-Fi network. The “ADB” in the name comes from the method it uses to spread: the Android Debug Bridge. This is a developer tool built into Android that allows communication with a device via a command line interface. In this case, the malware authors turn it against the user.
Every infection with ADB.Miner starts with a bad decision. Someone has to find the infected APK on a shady app store and manually install it. Qihoo 360 Netlab reports this malicious package is hiding in a number of apps that promise either porn or antivirus protection. Instead, you get ADB.Miner. It uses the processing power of your device to mine the Monero cryptocurrency and deposit it in the wallet belonging to the malware distributors. Of course, this causes lag and drains your battery.
ADB.Miner infection rates.
The next phase is where things get interesting. ADB.Miner uses code from the Mirai IoT malware that hit last year. The malware scans any Wi-Fi network it isn’t connected to in search of vulnerable devices to infect over ADB. However, ADB is disabled by default on all Android devices, and it’s a multi-step process to enable it. The devices also need to have ADB over port 5555 turned on, which requires a separate setup process after enabling ADB. Basically, we’re talking about active developer devices. Still, that’s probably some phones and tablets. By infecting the right target, the malware creators can build a stable of devices churning away to produce cryptocurrency.
Qihoo 360 Netlab reports that the number of infected devices is in the thousands, most of which are in China and South Korea. You’re not likely to run into this malware, but it’s a good idea to avoid installing sketchy APKs anyway. You won’t find this malware floating around on the Google Play Store, so stick to that if at all possible.
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http://newstier.com/new-android-malware-mines-cryptocurrency-on-your-phone/
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K7 AntiVirus is a comprehensive security solution that provides all the tools you need to stay away from spyware, viruses, Trojan horses and the other threats that may compromise your data.
Much like any other antivirus products, it takes a while to install K7 AntiVirus and keep in mind that it not compatible with similar applications. It tells you that from the very beginning, so if you wish to use K7 AntiVirus you must first uninstall the other antivirus solutions on your computer. Otherwise, you won’t be able to install it.
The interface is pretty pleasant actually and all features seem well organized in the main window, with dedicated tabs for each section of the app. While the “Security Center” keeps you up to date with the way the program’s components work, the “Tasks” tab enables you to start a new scan or perform other administrative tasks.
K7 AntiVirus prevents your computer from getting infected by viruses, worms and Trojans, spyware, dialers, adware, hacker tools and other malicious files that may exist on the web.
In this regard, it comes packed with dedicated tools to provide real-time file and email scanning, advanced behavioral and system monitoring, as well as exploit protection.
There are multiple scanning modes available, such as quick, complete, custom or just for hidden rootkits, but K7 AntiVirus also boasts some extra security tools. For instance, you can scan the computer for vulnerabilities and patches, abnormal changes or tracking cookies.
It holds an auto update feature to make sure the latest virus definitions are delivered to your computer in no time, but also separate utilities to schedule scans, manage quarantined files or view the security history.
The “Settings” menu is absolutely huge and provides a gigantic array of options regarding the real time protection, email scanning, messenger and office plug-ins, system monitor and on demand scanner, external devices and basically everything that’s being included in the package.
Last but not least, to make sure your computer stays on the safe side all the time, K7 AntiVirus also sports a virtual keyboard, a USB vaccination tool to block Autorun malware plus Windows and Internet temporary files cleaner.
K7 AntiVirus needs a moderate amount of CPU and RAM to work properly, so older machines may experience some slowdowns, especially when performing a system scan.
But all in all, K7 AntiVirus seems to become one of the big players in the security market and as long as you need a powerful antivirus, you should try this one too.
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https://www.fousoft.com/k7-antivirus-plus.html
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Hello and welcome, anon_user: Until one of the staff arrives...
This forum is targeted mostly to home users.
As your post indicates that this is a business/corporate/enterprise use of MBAM PRO, the most efficient way to get free assistance with this would be at the corporate help desk.
They can be reached by opening a support ticket here: Contact Corporate Support.
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https://forums.malwarebytes.org/topic/132358-remotely-remove-schedules-command-line/
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Computer viruses have been around since the early 1970s when the Creeper virus was first detected on ARPANET, the precursor to the internet. Despite the millions spent on programs like Norton AntiVirus and McAfee, they're still alive and kicking – and their terrifying capacity for destruction has inspired artists to create the Computer Virus Catalog, an illustrated guide to some of the worst computer viruses the world has ever seen.
"There's a real beauty to the sophistication of some of the viruses," explains Bas van de Poel, a Dutch creative who curated the viral selections in the gallery. "Viruses like Stuxnet and Flame are incredibly complex – not just in terms of codes, but also on a geopolitical level."To me it's really fascinating that the US and Israel work together to create this super virus designed to take down nuclear centrifuges in Iran," he continues, referring to Stuxnet, which infected Iran's nuclear facilities and tore apart their centrifuges. "But I also really appreciate the less sophisticated, early DOS viruses. It's amazing how far the programmers managed to push the visual aesthetics in a text based OS. The LSD and Beda virus are great examples."
Beda is a DOS memory virus infecting .com files. After being resident in the memory for a while, it activates when an infected program is executed. The virus will then show a display of trippy colours moving quickly up and downSam Coldy
Viruses even come with a story. The Melissa virus, which caused more than $80 million in damage to North American businesses, was allegedly named after the creator's favourite stripper; the Kenzero Trojan, one of the most malignant computer viruses in history, infected the databases of users, stealing their browser histories and making them public before blackmailing the user for its removal. Evil.
Some viruses even came with their own fucked-up sense of humour, timed to the spirit of the decade. The Olympic AIDS virus was launched to coincide with the 1994 Winter Olympics held in Lillehammer, Norway. A user infected the virus would see the following screen pop up:
"ATTENTION I have been elected to inform you that throughout your process of collecting and executing files, you have accdientally ¶HÜ¢KΣ► [PHUCKED] yourself over: again, that's PHUCKED yourself over. No, it cannot be; YES, it CAN be, a √ìτûs [virus] has infected your system. Now what do you have to say about that? HAHAHAHAHA. Have ¶HÜÑ [PHUN] with this one and remember, there is NO cure for AIDS."
Computer viruses are modern myths – invisible, malicious demons that have frightened entire nations with their power. And the best viruses in their league are dangerous, sophisticated and malevolent: all perfect attributes to inspire art, right?
Melting Worm is a Windows worm that infects .exe files. The worm spreads via the Outlook address book, attaching 'MeltingScreen.exe' to emails, promising to be a badass screensaver. After infection, Melting Worm starts melting away your screenMichael Willis
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https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/20835/1/the-computer-virus-catalog-depicts-the-worlds-worst-malware
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A leading client in the Energy and Industrial industry are currently looking for a Cyber Security Architect to join the team on a perm basis.
As the Security Architect, you will develop our cyber strategy, policies, principles, reference models and standards across all architectural domains, including those that support the ambitions of a global managed service provider in digital geospatial services. As an experienced Architect you will be a key member of the company’s technology architecture team providing leadership and direction.
This is an important role in bridging the gap between managing risk and the deployment of proportionate controls. You will be expected to provide expert and authoritative advice to architecture and development teams to ensure solutions comply with relevant policies, reference models, regulations and best practices.
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https://www.cybersecurityjobs.net/job/lorien-southampton-79-cyber-security-architect/
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A vulnerability in the MP3 detection engine of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass configured content filters on the device.
The vulnerability is due to improper validation of certain MP3 file types. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted MP3 file through the targeted device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass configured content filters that would normally drop the email.
Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.
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http://intelligentsystemsmonitoring.com/knowledgebase/cisco/cisco-email-security-appliance-mp3-content-filter-bypass-vulnerability/
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Access control in the palm of your hand with a device you always have with you. That’s Bluelock.
Why carry keys and remotes? The Bluelock is a Bluetooth enabled smart switch that is cost-effective and simple to install. Using Bluetooth version 4.1 it does not require pairing with the user’s phone.
BnB’s are the fastest-growing rented accommodation model. Security at these establishments is paramount. Old fashioned keys can be duplicated in minutes and used to re-enter a property where the robber was once a guest. With Bluelock, this security loophole is closed. The owner of the establishment simply sends his guest TOKENS, prior to arrival and Voila! Guests can now come and go for the duration of their stay.
Tokens are scheduled, meaning that they will expire after the pre-selected time and date thereby eliminating the risk of dodgy guests returning to help themselves to the new guest’s belongings.
Should the BnB owner need to retract a token, this can be done from his mobile phone in an instant.
The BnB owner will be alerted when his guests arrive. This can be a huge benefit if the owner needs to come and explain the property to the arrivals.
Bluelock has been successfully rolled out in hundreds of MTN Towers to allow technicians access with a full audit trail of their comings and goings. No external lock to be ground off. No keyholes to be plugged. The MTN control center issues TIMED tokens to the technicians. From the time the token is first used the technician has two hours to complete his task and close the cabinet door where after the Token expires.
Bluelock has a sensor input to read and report back on the status of a door. This feature puts us ahead of our competitors.
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https://www.bluelock.co.za/2020/01/21/access-control-in-the-palm-of-your-hand/
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Long Story short I watched and Observed both Marwan and Atta, and then I called the FBI from Park Plaza Hotel room in Hialeah, Florida where Port Services put me up to stay while in Florida.
In that Phone call to the FBI I gave picture perfect details of September 11, 2001 with exact Date, Targets, Airline names and Atta and Marwan.
I told the FBI agent both played a part in the 1993 Twin Tower attacks, and they are planning to attack again on September 11, 2001, and at this point I told the FBI agent I have Psychic Abilities.
He asked me then who would be the next President, and I said Clinton would be re-elected but Bush would be President in 2001 when the Nation is attacked.
[Excluded Current Investigation Information I gave to the FBI in August 2016.]
So either you are the LIAR Obama, or you have been LIED to by those under you.
p.s. You should read the Bottom of my Military Exam I took in the 1980s, because there was a Question along these lines "Do you foresee any Problems the USA might Incur"
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-eu-hash-data-protections-085516706.html
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Millenium Entry from Kaba Ilco controls access to two to 50 doors, such as an employee entrance, visitor entrance, shipping and receiving or any other sensitive area. It provides instant reporting of events and alarms.
This 2-door kit can be expanded in the future to meet your growing needs.
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http://www.securitysystemsnews.com/product/kaba-ilco-releases-access-control-system
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US President George Bush has request for $65.5 billion (£33.2bn) in IT spending across federal agencies to spend as part of his 2008 budget.
The request reflects his priorities to cut budget deficits while improving cybersecurity and enhancing e-government services to US citizens, Bush advisors said Wednesday.
"It's clearly demonstrated by our actions in this past year that the [cybersecurity] plans we've had in place aren't necessarily working," said Karen Evans, administrator of e-government and information technology in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). "It's important for us...that we have the trust of the American people that we'll protect their information."
The US government this year will focus heavily on IT security after reports of data breaches in 2006. The White House, working with federal auditors and Congress, will lean on agencies to improve cybersecurity using their existing resources, Evans said.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in May reported a laptop and hard drive containing the personal information of 26.5 million military veterans and their families stolen from an employee's home. Police later recovered the hardware, but the announcement set off a storm of criticism from Congress.
The lost VA equipment prompted a congressional review of other government agencies, and they reported thousands of laptops missing in the last five years.
Outdated IT contracting rules added to HealthCare.gov woes?
OMB will encourage some smaller agencies to contract with larger ones for network access and security, Evans said. OMB will also ask many agencies to focus on internal problems that lead to lost data, not just on external threats, she said. Some agencies are spending a disproportionate amount on fighting external threats, when the majority of cybersecurity problems are internal, she said.
Bush's 2008 budget includes a 2.6% spending increase for IT, compared to his 2007 budget request. Of the $65.5 billion, $31.4bn would go to the US Department of Defence, $5.6bn to Department of Health and Human Services, and $4.1bn to the Department of Homeland Security.
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http://www.cio.co.uk/it-security/bush-it-budget-targets-cybersecurity-759/
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is the best practice. any clarification is well appreciated . Thanks a bunch 1 it seems like native encryption that comes with 7.0.u2 1
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https://communities.vmware.com/t5/forums/filteredbylabelpage/board-id/1501/label-name/encryption
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Cyber threats are a major concern for any business, regardless of its size. Even a single data breach could result in disastrous consequences to your reputation and financials. The best way for organizations to prevent cyber risks is to have an information security program. With a cybersecurity program, you can protect any confidential information your company has.
However, not all organizational leaders know what this type of solution is. Additionally, those who do know may not be able to pinpoint what’s needed in a security program to make it effective. Without this knowledge, you could be unintentionally opening your company up to exploitable vulnerabilities. In this blog, we’re going to clarify what this plan is, as well as discuss the components of a security program.
What Is an Information Security Program?
An information security program is a collection of activities, projects, and initiatives that support your organization’s cybersecurity efforts. These solutions help your company accomplish business-related objectives and meet corresponding benchmarks. With a well-thought-out program, you can protect key business processes, IT assets, and sensitive employee data. It also helps you identify individuals or assets that could impact confidentiality.
Having an information security program lets you take a proactive approach to safeguarding data. However, before you implement your own security strategy, you first have to put it together. Constructing an effective program requires you to understand your organization’s security needs and the goals you want to accomplish. Establishing your needs and goals can reveal the IT tools and other information security assets necessary for successful deployment.
Components of Information Security Program
Understanding needs and setting goals helps determine how strong your security program can be. But those aren’t the only factors that can contribute to its success. In fact, there are multiple components you can use to enhance its effectiveness.
It’s not enough for the program to assess risks. You want a system that gives prevention recommendations in addition to risk assessments. It must also actively play a role in targeting issues, as well as mitigating problems if they make it past your defenses.
The Steps of Information Security Program Development and Management
The part where most business leaders tend to trip up when attempting to develop a security program is in the defining stage. Fortunately, there are steps you can follow to make this process a little easier.
The first step you want to take is figuring out the expected results of your plan. When you accomplish your desired security goals, what outcome do you want to see? This can be defined by your security objectives or what you consider to be the optimal state of your network.
To be able to make accurate measurements on the effectiveness of your program, you need a baseline. This means you need to know the current state of your IT infrastructure and its level of security. This can be done through a variety of means including business impact assessments or security audits. A risk assessment, in particular, can highlight any weaknesses in your system.
Once you know your current security posture, the next step is a gap analysis. A gap analysis clarifies the difference between your current and your desired state of security. It’s in this step where you can see how close or far away you are from your ideal security program.
After the gap analysis, you can create a roadmap. The roadmap outlines the steps you need to follow and the approach you want to take to achieve your security goals. A roadmap usually includes the people, processes, technology, and any other resources that can be used to realize your ambitions.
The final step in the process is management. The roadmap serves as your guide for finishing the development of your security program. Now that it’s in action, you need to maintain it so it can achieve the objectives and meet the expected results you set in place. Management requires the proper amount of active support and resources if it is to continue operating as expected.
Security Awareness
A critical element of an effective information security program is awareness training. Often the weakest link in any organization’s security strategy is the employees. An unwitting employee that falls victim to a cyberattack can undermine any cybersecurity measures your business has implemented.
Just as it sounds, awareness training helps your team understand the cyber risks facing your company. It also serves to establish the policies, standards, and procedures involved in your security program. Training can go a long way in convincing your staff to adopt safe practices and be vigilant against various threats.
Working With a Managed Service Provider
Due to the importance of keeping sensitive information secure and increasing troubles with cybersecurity, various laws and regulations now require companies to undergo security awareness training. Despite this, many organizations still lack the awareness they need to protect themselves. If your company is in need of comprehensive security awareness training, you can outsource your solution with a managed service provider (MSP) like The Logic Group.
Working with The Logic Group is simple, and we provide a continuous, easy-to-consume security awareness campaign. Through quizzes and simulations, we can help your team recognize threats and stay vigilant.
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https://thelogicgroup.com/what-is-an-information-security-program/
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This is the second article of a 3-part series on the money aspects for project risk management, including a discussion on estimating, budgeting, contingency and management reserve. In this article we discuss the management cost.
In our views, management cost for project risk management include all of the activities that the project manager, project management team, and overall project team performs. These include the cost to put the plan together, cost of identification, analysis, response planning, and monitoring and controlling. Basically, the costs related to the management of project risk management including people, tools, or any other resources used. These costs do not include the response cost, which we will discuss below.
Let us take the above concept and put it into practice – how do we do it in the real world. Well, here is where we have to consider a few alternatives.
Some organizations may allocate specific budget to project risk management, based on the number of people and hours required; whether by internal or external resources. This would be per the organization budgeting policies and guidelines. This approach can be quite difficult since it is challenging to identify the level of effort required by all stakeholders on the projects.
Other organizations might estimate the overall the project management team effort in term of number of people, hours, and duration, and budget accordingly. This approach assumes project risk management is part of the overall effort and no need to separate its costs. For small projects, one might estimate the number of hours required but for large projects we usually determine the budget based on the number of team members and durations. Non-team members, the other stakeholders, are likely to be excluded from the budget.
One more variation on the above, some organizations do not budget internal resources and only budget for external resources, such as service providers. Most, if not all, government organizations, at least in our region, uses this approach. We must stress here that when organizations use this approach it is for all internal resources and for all activities, technical and management, and is not limited to risk management.
Final Note: we need to remind the readers that these management costs are for the project and for every phase. It is important to recognize that we repeat the risk management processes in every phase. Therefore, the management cost, is part of the phases and project budgets.
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http://blog.sukad.com/how-to-budget-for-project-risk-management-2/
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In Today’s fast growing internet the threat regarding the exploited services resulting loss in terms of money and services is increasing a lot . One of the avenue of posing this kind of threat are pay-per-install . This requires that we need to understand and appreciate the threat posed by the “silent installs” industry. PPI or pay-per-install services have direct implications for take down efforts: even if as a defense mechanism we are able to completely clean up a botnet (as opposed to merely severing its C&C:command and control master servers), the bot master could return to business-as-usual through modest payments to one or more PPI services.
Pay-per-install (PPI) services are offered by specialized organizations that focus on the infecting the victims’ systems.
Given that multiple malware makers make use of the same PPI services, and that the number of PPI services seems to be significantly smaller than the number of malware families, PPI services are good targets for future take down efforts. However, the wide spread and easy availability of malware industry lead to commercialization of the malware industry that could make it easy to recreate PPI services elsewhere after take down, so the focus should be on identifying and apprehending the people that run such services.
Regarding detection techniques,it is observed that the content-based features of reclaimed signatures perform better than the endpoint-based features. The former wins over the latter in literature review regarding the handling of the periodic replacement of stale URLs PPI services employ for hosting the malware executable, likely to bypass URL blacklists. It is also observed that many downloaders employ a simple download-and-execute strategy, which in turn suggests that in order to protect your business , defense mechanism might realize significant protections by employing taint-based approaches that identify the execution of downloaded data.
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https://inteliworld.com/executive-overview-defenses-pay-per-install-malware/
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Leveraging AI to undertake investigations of suspicious activities could significantly increase security teams’ abilities to protect their organizations from cyber-attacks, according to Andrew Tsonchev, director of technology, Darktrace, speaking during the Infosecurity Magazine Online Summit EMEA 2021.
The development of an ‘AI analyst’ differs from the normal role of threat detection played by this type of technology in cybersecurity. In essence, it looks to “replicate the sort of steps taken by a human analyst in a SOC in a course of an investigation.”
Part of the driver for Darktrace’s work in this area has been the extra pressure placed on security teams as a result of the changing working patterns in the past year. This has led to the growing use of remote endpoints as well as technologies such as SaaS and collaboration tools, expanding the threat landscape.
An additional consideration is the trend of malicious actors utilizing AI from an offensive standpoint, which would allow them to significantly ramp up attacks. Tsonchev noted that “we are in the beginning phases of that at the minute.”
Conversely, giving AI the human traits of investigation can help organizations become aware of, and deal with, threats much more quickly. While typically AI tools are used to detect any unusual patterns and behaviors in an organization’s system by matching it against the usual activities, the next step is enabling it to analyse and interpret any anomalies in the way human security analysts normally would.
“Humans take the initial alert as a jumping-off point to begin an investigative process, which is active and involves discovery, question asking and data gathering and analysis,” explained Tsonchev. He added: “The way this technology works is to train machine learning engines on the way humans do security investigation,” ultimately concluding if that threat poses a risk to the organization.
Such an approach can free up security teams, reducing their initial triage time by up to 92%, according to Tsonchev. The AI analyst can then produce a report which gives the most pertinent information.
He then gave an example of a successful AI investigation relating to attacks from APT41 in March 2020 that exploited a zero-day vulnerability. This led to the threat being quickly identified as the highest priority. Tsonchev commented: “You can detect any and all strange things in the environment but if those alerts are buried amongst a sea of 300 other alerts in a day, then you haven’t really detected it in a meaningful way that really helps your security team.”
He added: “The key value proposition here is not to throw an analyst 50 alerts, but to identify a map to an ongoing threat, to classify the nature of that threat and to understand the type of behavior.”
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https://startupdigital.in/cyber-security/imos21-ai-analysts-may-prove-key-to-keeping-organizations-secure/
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This probably motivated you to do some major cleaning; sorting, organizing, and disposing of items to know where the important items are located and easily get to them when needed. Maybe you even realized you needed to lock valuable items up to secure them.
To protect and easily find valuable assets in a house requires regular clean-up. Similarly, every organization has information assets – important, sensitive, and critical data – that need to be protected and easily located. And, just like at home, protecting and locating these assets (data) requires knowing where it is.
It's important to conduct regular cybersecurity hygiene exercises in order to follow best practices such as inventorying and security data.
Types of Critical Data
The type of critical data that many organizations own includes personally identifiable information (PII), payment card information (PCI), medical records, personnel/payroll data, social security numbers, corporate intellectual property, and more.
If your organization is like most, you know where critical data should be located. But in the complex world of multi-user IT environments and free-flowing data, critical information can migrate to and settle in unexpected places.
Over time, you can lose track of the location of critical data. Moreover, shadow IT is rampant, and data breaches, as well as the loss of critical information through carelessness or ignorance, are at an all-time high.
Identifying Sensitive Data
Most concerning is when sensitive data finds its way into unsecured files on desktops, laptops, other mobile devices, and other locations where data is at rest.
Fortunately, there is a way to quickly, efficiently, and discreetly identify sensitive data and how it flows throughout your organization. A sensitive data discovery scan can identify all critical data on your organization’s network. Based on the results of the scans, your organization can determine if the proper security measures are in place to protect that information, or if it should be removed altogether.
There are multiple critical data scanning tools available. While most scanning software will provide visibility about the location of data within your organization, it is important for your cybersecurity team to determine the security steps your organization needs to take to protect sensitive data.
Using a Sensitive Data Scanning Service
Another option is to partner with a cybersecurity service provider. A strong sensitive data scanning service will not only provide visibility into where your organization’s sensitive data flows and rests, but it will also include a thorough process. This process should contain the following steps:
Determine the types of sensitive data that need to be protected through discovery interviews.
Build out a scan strategy based on information gathered from interviews.
Configure and execute the scan.
Collect and analyze the scan results.
Construct results report, including the location of sensitive data and files.
Review results in-depth with stakeholders and discusses risk tolerance.
Recommend consolidation and securing of sensitive data.
Regardless of what option you choose, the important thing is to get it done, do it well and do it regularly (at least annually).
Spring is a good time for house cleaning. And adding critical data scans to your cybersecurity spring cleaning checklist is a good step toward getting your organization’s house in order.
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One way to stay honest and commit to your New Year’s resolution: A scale that tweets your weight.
Withings’ WiFi Body Scale measures your lean and fat mass automatically, then sends the information via WiFi to your mobile phone’s app where you can tweet the information (if you dare) to your followers.
Replay, an Italian denim company, developed jeans that—yes—tweet your mood. The jeans feature a vinyl pocket with a chip that synchs to your Android or iPhone via Bluetooth. One you’re connected, you can click to share your mood with friends on Facebook or Twitter.
The jeans are capable of sharing eight different moods, from positive to negative, and retail for about $200.
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It’s often the chance conversations you have at a conference that prove to be the most interesting. So it was when I attended the Cloud Computing World Forum two weeks ago in London.
You may be aware that a little event is about to be unleashed on the world from London—the 2012 Olympics. My chance encounter was with Russ Ede, who is responsible for the London 2012 Olympics website. He shared some amazing information about what it takes to create a website that can stand up to the most widely watched sports event in the world.
First, you have to remember that there’s no do-over with these kind of events. Everything simply has to work when the games go off—delays or postponements are unthinkable. So what goes into creating a website capable of supporting the Olympics?
Perhaps most surprising, there’s no massive server farm. The actual processing taking place on the website is relatively small. However, there is massive use of the Akamai CDN to distribute content around the world. The Olympics website has been using live video to transmit the progress of the Olympic torch and has contracted with Akamai to distribute it.
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This increasing use of live video may account for what Akamai CEO and President Paul Sagan said last week at the GigaOM Structure conference. Over the next five years, Akamai will have to increase its capacity 100-fold due to the growing popularity of streaming live video. While there’s redundancy built into every bit of the website, there is no massive hardware infrastructure in place.
Another surprising thing about the London 2012 Olympics website is that it leverages open source extensively, using LAMP as the primary software foundation. Despite the demands placed on the site, there’s an apparent ethos of running “cheap and cheerful,” which precludes use of expensive proprietary software packages.
While the Olympics website did stream the torch relay, it won’t transmit video footage of the events themselves. Another entity takes care of that. However, the website is responsible for distributing the stats of the events, receiving feeds from every event and venue and making the data available to organizations that can make use of them, including the event video distribution organization. When you see information crawling across the bottom of your television screen during the broadcast, know that it came through the website.
Performance Testing Easier Than Incorporating Cutting-Edge Tech
Ede told me about several other interesting challenges associated with running the London 2012 Olympic website.
Forecasting usage and ensuring performance at the forecast levels. Apparently, there were many, many meetings about total use. It would have be easy to predict a very large number, but in a “cheap and cheerful” environment, over-provisioning “just in case” is a non-starter.
Testing performance and robustness at scale. While over-provisioning was out, it is still necessary to confirm that the expected loads can be handled. The Olympics used the Soasta load testing service to ensure the site could manage hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users. In fact, Soasta tested up to 1 million users over the course of one hour.
The changing nature of the web itself affects the Olympics website. Every Olympics experiences the latest Web development. For the 1996 Atlanta games, it was the basic Web presence. Since the last games in Beijing, Twitter and Facebook have emerged; both can cause user “storms” and an explosion in traffic. Russ anticipates that as British athletes participate in the London games, and particularly when they contend for medals, the website will experience very high traffic loads.
News: London Internet Exchange Fortifies Internet Infrastructure for Olympics
The fact that every Olympics has to deal with something new indicates just how rapidly the Internet is evolving. It’s no easy task. One new development the website hasn’t been able to incorporate is supporting Instragram, as it’s too new for the planning and work the website group has been doing over the past two years. One can be sure that, by the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic games, there will be new developments for that website to support—perhaps some that don’t even exist at all today.
I’m sure my household will be like many of yours during the games—watching TV every night to view every available event. It’s likely that we’ll also have other devices being used to stream other video and track Twitter and Facebook. It’s quite remarkable to reflect on how rapidly delivery of information and content is changing as new Internet capabilities come along—and how quickly people adopt them and come to find them as critical to their involvement and enjoyment of the events.
Given my conversation with Ede, I also know that my appreciation for what goes into making all this information and content available is going to be much greater. It’s a remarkable undertaking. I’ll have my eyes wide open in late July and early August.
Bernard Golden is CEO of consulting firm HyperStratus, which specializes in virtualization, cloud computing and related issues. He is also the author of “Virtualization for Dummies,” the best-selling book on virtualization to date. Most recently Wired named him one of the Top 10 Cloud Influencers and Thought Leaders. Follow Bernard Golden on Twitter @bernardgolden.
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Unlike Facebook, Google+ does not yet offer vanity URLs, or a shorter URL that you can use to point others to your profile. Enter gplus.to: a service that shortens your Google+ URL into something more simple.
Visit the site, choose a shorter username then copy and paste the string of numbers identifying your Google+ page. This will create your vanity URL: gplus.to/yourusername.
When you’re logged into your Gmail account, you’ll notice a gray bar between your username and the Settings gear icon that says “Share…” This lets you post to your Google+ account without leaving Gmail.
Click on the Share button and the same status toolbar from the Google+ interface will pop out, letting you post a picture, video, link or update.
Directly under your Google+ profile picture is information about the people you have in your circles and the circles you are included in. Much like everything else on your profile page, this, too, you can edit.
From your Google+ profile page, click the “Edit profile” button, then hover over your Circles information. To edit it, click the gray globe icon. From here, you can choose whether or not you want others to see who you have in your Circles and who has put you in their’s.
Disable Google+
If Google+ just isn’t for you and you want to leave the service, here’s how to do it. Click your full name or email address in the Google+ bar, then click “Account settings” and choose “Account overview.” From here, click “Delete profile and remove associated features.”
This will delete your profile and remove your Google+ posts, circles and other content. You will still be able to access Gmail and most other Google services.
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It sounds like something out of an episode of Spooks: Researchers have discovered a way to use simple touch to decode the cryptography keys that are intended to secure your information. It's as easy as gauging the electric potential coursing through your computer while it's working. Advertisement
In the MIT Technology Review today, we learn of a paper out of Tel Aviv University (title: Get Your Hands Off My Laptop) that details the process of measuring the ground electric potential in laptops. There are several ways to do this: You could, say, use a wire. But that's not nearly as exciting as using your own hand—preferably sweaty!—and then "analyzing that signal using sophisticated software." Here's how the authors explain the process: Advertisement
This potential can be measured by a simple wire, non-invasively touching a conductive part of the laptop (such as the metal heatsink fins or shielding of USB, Ethernet, VGA, DisplayPort and HDMI ports), and connected to a suitable amplifier and digitizer. The chassis potential, thus measured, is affected by ongoing computation, and our attacks exploit this to extract RSA and ElGamal keys, within a few seconds. According to the researchers, the hand method works "is especially effective in hot weather, since sweaty fingers offer lower electric resistance." Essentially, they're taking advantage of the "noise" your computer makes while it's processing this information, to figure out exactly when and how they should listen in. Which brings us to an important point: How to resist it. According to MIT, it's "possible to avoid such attacks by adding random data to computations." In other words, we'll need to build codes on top of code. [MIT Technology Review]
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But the year didn’t end well for Facebook. Its Beacon program, which allowed advertisers to broadcast the purchase of a Facebook user to that person’s friends, angered privacy advocates. The lack of an opt-out feature drew the ire of progressive political groups like MoveOn.org. The incident caused Mark Zuckerberg to tuck tail with an apology to his approximately 55 million users a week ago.
But after the New Year, expect Facebook to hunker down, says Oliver Young, a Forrester analyst. “They’re going to settle down and crystallize a lot their innovations around advertising,” he says. “They need to monetize more of the users they have.”
While analysts say it’s unrealistic for people to expect Facebook’s influence to wane in 2008, the company’s main competitors, LinkedIn and MySpace, are by no means dead. Expect them to rev up their operations to grab more users and advertisers in the consumer space. Analysts expect to see greater innovations in all three of the big social networks around the third-party applications that run on top of social networking pages. And some of these applications, they hope, will hold value for the business user.
Here’s a look at what to expect in terms of their business goals of each social network and the technology surrounding them.
The past year has been a whirlwind for Facebook, and it’s time to think how it can start turning substantial profits (for real; not just venture capital investment). Beacon, while a botched attempt at leveraging the power of Facebook’s vast social network, was the first step. In 2008, Forrester’s Young expects more advertising initiatives.
In addition, the company must show a consistency in their business model that makes advertisers comfortable to do business with it (the erratic Beacon was a misstep they won’t want to repeat). “If they continue to really change things so dramatically, it’s difficult for advertisers to figure out what they’re doing and what they get from doing business there,” Young says.
Technology: Make Widgets Matter
When Facebook opened up its platform to third party developers in late May, it saw an explosion of applications to run atop the site (known commonly as widgets). But picking out the applications that are business worthy can be pretty tricky. The majority of applications have trivial uses, such as people sending each other fake hamburgers and drinks over a widget; they don’t do much to boost productivity.
According to Stowe Boyd, a Web 2.0 expert who runs a consultancy, The Messengers, and pens a technology blog, we might expect to see developers start creating apps that serve business purposes. “Creating ones that will be more professional in their orientation will be important,” he says.
The bottom line: As Facebook’s user base becomes both a consumer and business channel, it needs to provide useful services that advertisers will want to support.
While MySpace wasn’t the darling of the media this year, there’s no sign its rate of user adoption faltered. It claims some 70 million users who spend 200 minutes or more each month on the site. “If you look at the adoption, MySpace has been going as well as they ever have,” says Forrester’s Young. In terms of actual monetary growth, it’s hard to know how well it does because it’s buried within News Corp’s $28.7 billion in financial data.
For MySpace, the question will be how it can leverage those eye balls and turn them into dollars. One way might be to take advantage of the media outlets of its parent, which include Fox News and soon, The Wall Street Journal.
LinkedIn is in a unique spot as they approach 2008. While they don’t have the glitz and glamor of a growingly diverse Facebook user-base, the site’s constant attention to maintaining a professional feel could help monetize its business in more ways than just ads.
According to Young, LinkedIn can explore the idea of helping sales representatives and job recruiters leverage the platform for lead generation. That said, he says LinkedIn lost its edge by being late to opening its platform to third-party application developers.
Technology: Opening Up Platform, But How Much?
When LinkedIn opened their platform for third-party development in December, [/article/163601] some seven months after Facebook, Boyd questioned if it was too little, too late.
“LinkedIn is long overdue here,” Boyd says. He also notes the innovations that can occur atop LinkedIn’s platform are limited given its narrow focus. “It’s a big catalogue of resumes and not much else. It isn’t incredibly social,” Boyd says.
The other thing that could hinder application development will be that LinkedIn might put tight restrictions on what apps it makes available to its users. Facebook and MySpace have adopted a liberal approach to this trend.
“They’ll be heavy handed about what makes it on to LinkedIn,” says Young. “But I expect the command and control mentality to relax over time.”
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Since this story was originally reported, it has been updated to correct a misspelled name in paragraphs six and eight.
MessageLabs launched on Monday encrypted instant-message (IM) software, targeting companies that use consumer IM clients for collaboration and document sharing.
The company’s Enterprise Instant Messenger (EIM) is derived from MessageLabs’ October acquisition of Omnipod, which focused on IM and file-transfer services, said David Hahn, group product manager.
The software addresses some of the concerns raised around increased use of IM in the enterprise, such as confidentiality, compliance and intellectual-property leaks.
EIM is compatible with IM software from AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft. However, encrypted messages can be sent only using the private IM network provided by the software.
EIM offers reporting and management functions through an administration console. An administrator can restrict the IM networks that employees use and control their screen names. EIM can log and archive chat for compliance requirements, Hahn said.
Within the next year, MessageLabs will release a “hygiene” service that scans IM traffic on different clients for malware and “spim” (unsolicited chat messages from unknown users), Hahn said.
EIM comes in three versions. Connect, the most basic package, provides secure chat on a private domain. Communicate adds logging, archiving, file sharing and compatibility with AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo.
The highest-level package, Collaborate, offers integration with collaboration software from WebEx Communications and Salesforce.com, Hahn said.
Pricing is per user per month, and ranges from US$2 to $7 depending on the number of users and the package selected, he said.
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Technology has body slammed the marketing profession, turning a black art into hard science. Marketing now must be well-versed in customer data, analytics, mobile, social and marketing automation tools. Who’s going to lead this dramatic and critical transformation? Enter the chief marketing technologist, a hybrid role bridging the diametrically opposed worlds of marketing and tech.
Here’s a look at six types of chief marketing technologists from a SapientNitro survey, which also found that four out of five companies have someone in this role (such as a CIO reporting to the CMO). Interestingly, SapientNitro found that chief marketing technologists are evenly split coming from marketing and technology disciplines. Lastly, be sure to check out the bonus slide at the end.
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National broadband provider iiNet today confirmed - after a week filled with speculation that it would do so - that it would buy the retail customers of Telecom New Zealand subsidiary AAPT, in a move that also resolves long-standing questions about AAPT's shareholding in iiNet.
The deal will bring about 113,000 broadband subscribers and over 251,000 other active telecommunications services to iiNet – with the ISP to have more than 652,000 broadband subscribers in total, as well as total active services of more than 1.32 million. IiNet expects that it will migrate about 25,000 subscribers onto its own network.
In a statement, iiNet chief executive Michael Malone noted that it had only been a short time since his company's acquisition of another major Australian ISP – Netspace.
However, he said the AAPT deal represented a unique opportunity to acquire a large subscriber base – as well as to strengthen iiNet's five-year-old agreement with AAPT's wholesale division PowerTel – which over the past half-decade has seen PowerTel wholesale iiNet's broadband network to others.
As part of the deal, iiNet will ink a new wholesale arrangement with AAPT to use the company's network. The AAPT brand will not be acquired as part of the deal – that will remain with the Telecom New Zealand subsidiary, which will now focus on the business and wholesale markets, according to a statement issued today by Telecom.
As part of the deal, Telecom will sell its long-held 18.2 percent stake in iiNet – worth about $70 million – to “institutional and sophisticated investors” – a move which iiNet expects will significantly increase the amount of iiNet shares on the market.
“The relationship between iiNet and Telecom New Zealand has been very positive and we would like to thank Telecom New Zealand for their support during the term of their investment,” Malone said.
“Together these transactions rationalise non-core assets, strengthen Telecom's financial position, and help reposition AAPT's operations into a focused, network-centric wholesale and corporate business that is well-positioned for future growth,” said Telecom NZ chief executive officer Paul Reynolds.
The deal will be subject to the approval of iiNet's shareholders -- who will get their chance to approve or deny the deal at an extraordinary general meeting expected to be held in September – as well as regulatory approval. The acquisition will be funded from iiNet's cash on hand as well as debt facilities.
In general, iiNet expects the deal to bring in “post-synergies” earnings before interest, depreciation, taxation and amortisation of $20 million in the first full year after the acquisition – which comes in addition to its $10m EBITDA expected contribution from Netspace in the 2011 financial year.
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Attacks exploiting a previously unknown and currently unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser have spread to at least. Researchers analyzing the attacks say that the attack tie it to a China-based hacking group known as "DeepPanda".
Security firm CrowdStrike said its researchers unearthed evidence suggesting that the campaign began in mid-March. Their analysis of logs from the malicious infrastructure used in the attacks revealed the IP addresses of visitors to the compromised sites.
The logs showed addresses from 37 different countries, with 71 percent of them in the US, 11 percent in South/Southeast Asia, and 10 percent in Europe.
Microsoft confirmed the remote code-execution vulnerability on Friday night. Versions 6, 7, 9, and 10 of the browser are immune to these attacks. Microsoft has simply suggested IE8 users upgrade to a newer version for now.
This is just the latest in a series of so-called "watering hole" attacks targeting government workers and political figures within the U.S. government. In January, a compromise at the website of The Council on Foreign Relations was widely seen as an effort to gain access to influential D.C. policymakers and officials. A similar incident affecting the website of The National Journal was reported in March.
In watering hole attacks, victims are not attacked directly. Rather, attackers compromise a trusted, third-party website that the intended targets are likely to visit, then launch a silent attack when they visit the site.
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1. Personalize the shopping experience. “Millennials like brands who get to know them and give them an opportunity to be part of the experience,” says Tink Taylor, founder of dotMailer. “Listening and engaging in a two-way dialogue is very important among these consumers. [And] finding ways to … engage [millennials] in a personalized way can come in many forms, from [greeting returning customers by name] to [offering] live chat to [personalized] email. The key is to build interactions that capture their attention in a human way.” “Millennials demand personalized experiences,” says Tony Bartel, COO, GameStop. And brands can (and should) use customer data to personalize, and improve, the customer experience.
[ Related: 5 ways ecommerce business can improve customer service ] “Data from GameStop’s PowerUp Rewards loyalty program helps personalize the shopping experience down to the individual to understand millennials’ interests and how they prefer to engage,” he says. For example, information the company gathered from its loyalty program “showed that 80 percent of GameStop customers visit a physical store to purchase a product seen online.” So GameStop developed ‘pick-up at store’ and ‘Web-in-store’ programs, “which allow customers to purchase products online while in the store and determine when they can pick up their purchase at the store.” 2. Incorporate and promote user-generated content (UGC). “Given millennials’ penchant for posting their opinions publicly, consumer-generated content is increasingly a factor in their decision-making process – [with] 54 percent of shoppers between the ages of 25-34 cit[ing] consumer-generated content as having some influence on their in-store purchase,” says Sara Spivey, CMO, Bazaarvoice. “Add to that the fact that millennials spend nearly five hours per day with consumer-generated content (CGC), [and] there is an incredible opportunity for brands to get in front of this audience. Those who embrace CGC increase the potential to convert millennial consumers.” “User-generated content is like a magnet to [millennials],” agrees Dimitrios Kourtesis, CEO at Goodvidio. “They trust UGC more than mainstream media because it looks more authentic. To cater to their taste, place UGC at the heart of your offsite and onsite marketing,” he says. “Collaborate with Instagram influencers to create interest for your site. Then when they land on your pages, use UGC, such as… reviews, to continue the storytelling about your products. Millennials appreciate the sincerity.” 3. Create and share videos. “Create videos that will move your followers,” says Allison McGuire, marketing director, PaperMart.com. “I don’t mean move them to tears (although that can be good too), but make them smile or inspire a reaction that makes them want to share. Focusing on short, engaging videos has certainly become the norm for millennials with Snapchat and Vimeo leading the way.”
Millennials “relate to authentic product videos that tell stories of how other shoppers used products in real life,” says Kourtesis. “Millennials are 1.5 times more likely to watch videos while shopping online before they decide if a product is a good buy. [And] about a third buys products directly as a result of watching product videos.”
Millennials “are also more interested in consumer-made how-to, unboxing and haul videos than overly stylized brand videos,” he explains. So “be proactive and add this content to your product detail pages to inspire purchases and make the experience more realistic. We [have seen a] 37 percent increase in conversions on ecommerce sites that feature product videos.” 4. Leverage social media. “Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, this is where millennials are spending their time,” says Mike Satterfield, creative director, Satterfield Group. So it’s important to “creat[e] relevant content in those spaces, [content that provides] value to [that] audience…with subtle calls to action.” “Millennials are the first ‘digital-first’ generation, so when they are looking for opinions and information about products to buy, they are three times more likely than boomers to turn to social channels like Facebook and Twitter,” adds Spivey.
[ Related: How to market your business on Instagram ]
And while it’s important to not turn your social pages into static ads for your products or services, using them more as interactive ways to engage with followers, don’t discount social media advertising.
“With one of our clients, we’ve seen great success by marketing to millennials through Facebook and Instagram advertising,” says Brian Stumbaugh, digital marketing manager, The Startup Garage. “These are particularly successful [channels] because we can segment different target groups by age and interests, which allows us to create ads specifically for them on the platforms they use most frequently.”
Also, when crafting your social media campaigns, “take the time to design lifestyle photos specifically for your social channels,” says McGuire. “Millennials won’t relate to static product pictures or repurposed website photos. They want something that is more creative and engaging.
“Incorporate popular, trendy products into your images,” she suggests. “For example, mason jars are really hot right now. At Paper Mart, we frequently incorporate them into [our] photography, creating a modern look for each theme or season,” she explains. “Focusing on lifestyle, seasonal and event based themes has really brought out more engagement from our millennial followers.” 5. Utilize influencers. “Tapping influencers – or social media users with a large following and expertise on a certain topic – is a great way for brands to market to millennials,” says Brendan Lattrell, founder & CEO, Grapevine. “This is especially effective considering that 70 percent of this demographic values endorsements from influencers that they consider peers vs. celebrities, according to a recent Collective Bias report. Fortunately for brands, there are plenty of social influencer marketing platforms and social listening tools available to help hone in on the right influencer for a particular campaign.” 6. Embrace text messaging. “Got text? Some of the top retail brands (Express, for example) do, and it’s driving revenue through the roof,” says Danica Jones, marketing manager at ConsumerAffairs.com. “Texting is the highest rated contact method for CSAT [customer satisfaction], scoring 90 out of 100 points (Phone 77, Facebook 66). [And] a loyalty program delivering offers with a strong CTA [call to action] in a format millennials love gives your business a better chance of being heard and having customers act on your outreach, all with a lower cost point.” 7. Don’t forget about email. “Despite conflicting reports that email is dying, especially among younger generations, the truth is that millennials aren’t ditching email,” says Marie Homne, senior marketing strategist at Yesmail. “Email is a simple and effective technique to reach millennials because they can easily view it on their smartphones.” [ Related: 15 ways to improve your email marketing campaigns ] “Despite the rise of social media, email is still the best way to connect with millennials,” says Dan Buckstaff, vice president of Marketing, Jetlore. However, “with 68 percent of email opens now done on a mobile device, it’s critical to provide fresh and relevant emails that capitalize on mobile’s limited real estate.” 8. Finally, be sure to reward millennial customers for their loyalty. Everyone likes a reward, especially millennials. And, “according to a recent survey conducted online by Harris Poll on behalf of Ambassador, 95 percent of 18-to-34-year-olds say they would like some sort of incentive for sharing a product via social media or email,” says Jeff Epstein, founder & CEO, Ambassador, a developer of referral software. So “get creative and reward repeat purchases or referrals with cash, credit, loyalty points, early access or swag.”
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Cybersecurity conference is very important and essential for business and for each of us, exclusively, given the fact that they are a united group.
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(NIST) as a successor to data encryption standard (DES) algorithms. In recent literature, a number of architectures for the VLSI implementation of AES Rijndael algorithm are reported. It can be observed that some of these architectures are of low performance and some provide low throughput. Further, many of the architectures are not area efficient and can result in higher cost when implemented in silicon.
In this paper, we propose a high performance, high throughput and area efficient VLSI architecture for Rijndeal algorithm that is suitable for low cost silicon implementation. The proposed architecture is optimized for high throughput in terms of the encryption and decryption data rates using pipelining. Polynomial multiplication is implemented using XOR operation instead of using multipliers to decrease the hardware complexity.
In the proposed architecture both the encryption and decryption modes use common hardware resources, thus making the design area efficient. Selective use of look-up tables and combinational logic further enhances the architecture’s memory optimization, area, and performance. An important feature of our proposed architecture is an effective solution of online
(real-time) round key generation needing significantly less storage for buffering.
II. RIJNDAEL ALGORITHM Rijndael algorithm is an iterated block cipher supporting a variable data block and a variable key length of 128, 192 or 256 bits. The algorithm consists of three distinct phases: (i) an initial data/key addition, (ii) nine (128-bits), eleven (192- bits) or thirteen (256-bits) standard rounds, (iii) a final round which is a variation of a standard round. The number of standard rounds depends on the data block and key length. If the maximum length of the data block or key is 128, 192 or 256, then the number of rounds is 10, 12 or 14, respectively.
The initial key is expanded to generate the round keys, each of size equal to block length. Each round of the algorithm receives a new round key from the key schedule module. Each standard round includes four fundamental algebraic function transformations on arrays of bytes. These transformations are: byte substitution, shift row, mix column, and round key addition.
The final round of the algorithm is similar to the standard round, except that it does not have Mix Column operation. Decryption is performed by the application of the inverse transformations of the round functions. The sequence of operations for the standard round function differs from encryption. The computational performance differs between encryption and decryption because the inverse transformations in the round function is more complex than the corresponding transformation for encryption.
III. THE PROPOSED VLSI ARCHITECTURE FOR RIJNDAEL
The proposed architecture showing the order of operation and control between the transformations is shown in Fig. 1(a). A. Architecture of the Data Unit
The data unit consists of: the initial round of key addition, Nr ¡ 1 standard rounds, and a final round. The architecture for a standard round composed of four basic blocks is shown in Fig. 1(b). For each block, both the transformation and the inverse transformation needed for encryption and decryption, respectively are performed using the same hardware resources. This implementation generates one set of sub key and reuses it for calculating all other sub keys in real-time.
Byte Sub required in the key expansion unit is implemented using the S-Boxes.
Four S-Boxes are needed for a 128-bit key and 128-128-bit data block implemented using 8£256 ROM cells. Multiplexers are used as a control signal to distinguish between the initial key and the round key (obtained from the initial key using a “key expansion unit”).
The least significant 32 bits of the 128-bit key is cyclically shifted to the left by a byte, implemented using combinational logic. The resulting word after the left shift operation is sent through the S-boxes and the affine mapping operation, in order to perform Byte Sub. The key resulting from the Byte Sub is XORed with the Round Constant (RCON). In this architecture, the round constant is generated using the combinational logic. The round constant should be symmetric with the round key being generated.
Fig. 5. Architecture for Key Scheduling Unit
The total number of round constants that need to be generated is equal to the number of rounds. The round constant is obtained in real-time by multiplying the previous round constant by X. This is amenable for implementation in the hardware using XOR operations. For the reverse key scheduling, the last round key should be generated with forward key scheduling for the first time. The last round key is expanded to generate the reverse round keys.
Decryption requires more cycles than encryption because it needs pre-scheduling to generate the last key value. Since the Rijndael algorithm allows different key lengths and block lengths, each round key is carefully set to have the same length as the data block. In the case where key length and the block length are not equal, previous, current and also the next round keys are needed in order to generate the appropriate set of round keys that are fed into the encryption module, which is performed by a “key alignment unit”.
We have presented a VLSI architecture for the Rijndael AES algorithm that performs both the encryption and decryption. S-boxes are used for the implementation of the multiplicative inverses and shared between encryption and decryption.
The round keys needed for each round of the implementation are generated in real-time. The forward and reverse key scheduling is implemented on the same device, thus allowing efficient area minimization. Although the algorithm is symmetrical, the hardware required is not, with the encryption algorithm being less complex than the decryption algorithm. The implementation of the key unit in the proposed architecture, can be scaled for the keys of length 192 and 256 bits easily.
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Omnichannel marketing automation software provider Selligent announced today the completion of its merger with email technology company Strongview. Selligent says the new combined company is now the world’s largest independent provider of orchestration and engagement solutions for relationship marketers.
“One of the top reasons that Extra Space Storage works with Selligent is its clear commitment to relationship marketers,” Melissa Burdon, marketing optimization director at Selligent customer Extra Space Storage, said in a statement today. “We are in the midst of a customer experience transformation, focusing on identifying pain points our customers go through on their journey with us and coming up with solutions to make their experience easier and really positive. Selligent understands the human side of marketing, and the merger with StrongView provides us with an even greater ability to engage with our customers at the right time, through the right channel, to give them an engagement that matters to them.”
HGGC says the combination of Selligent and StrongView has even more potential. In August 2015, VentureBeat ranked Selligent the fastest-growing company in the marketing automation category, citing 12 percent growth in the previous year (the category average was four percent).
StrongView brings a broad roster of U.S.-based enterprise and mid-market clients to Belgium-based Selligent, and its contextual email technology rounds out Selligent’s offering, bringing together enterprise email marketing capabilities with omnichannel campaign management and targeting expertise. The combined company serves more than 700 brands in 30 countries, including Dyson, ING and InterContinental Hotels Group.
“We originally invested in Selligent earlier in the year because we see the need for an independent omnichannel platform focused specifically on marketers,” HGGC CEO Rich Lawson, chairman of the combined company, said in a statement when the merger was announced last October. “Bringing StrongView’s broad roster of U.S.-based enterprise and mid-market clients and its leading contextual email technology into Selligent makes the company the clear market leader. Clients will be able to select from a flexible set of consumer-first email and multichannel capabilities and enjoy top-tier service across both sides of the Atlantic.”
Andre Lejeune, co-founder and CEO of Selligent, says the new combined company provides mid-market marketers with a single partner committed to meeting the needs of relationship marketers, as opposed to marketing cloud providers that are intent on selling broad solutions across many marketing functions.
“We are committed to the needs of relationship marketers and delivering on the promise of consumer-first marketing,” he says. “We have what marketers at mid-market companies need — the feature breadth, ease of use and rigorous data stewardship demanded by underfunded European marketers, and the enterprise-class scale and sophistication demanded in the United States.”
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Most penetration testers are using either a Mac or a Linux-based platform in order to perform their penetration testing activities. However it is always a good practice to have and a Windows virtual machine with some tools ready to be used for the engagement. The reason for this is that although Windows cannot be used as a main platform for penetration testing some of the utilities and tools can still help us to extract information from our windows targets. So in this post we will see some of the tools that we can use in our windows system.
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What does it mean to software-define something, or to move into the digital age? These phrases may sound strange at first, but if you look around, companies all over the world are doing these things every day.
Take pizza, for example. You might not think you can software-define pizza, but it has already happened, and you probably didn’t even realize it. Domino’s Pizza has distilled the pizza ordering experience down from calling the pizza store, to ordering pizza online, to now only requiring one simple action: text Domino’s a pizza emoticon, and your favorite saved order is delivered to you. That pizza emoticon may look like a tasty morsel, but Domino’s has transformed it into a template that you can customize, edit, and use to repeatedly and reliably order your favorite pizza with minimal effort. That’s what it means to software-define something.
Software-define your data center
For a data center, it’s just as important to take the complicated processes of old and distill them down into simple actions. Bring the magic and simplicity of software and integrate it directly into the hardware at the most basic level, so that from start to finish, the process is defined and controlled through software. For example, instead of manually provisioning servers one-by-one, your infrastructure management software can let you quickly and reliably discover, deploy, and provision your data center. Like the pizza emoticon, you should be able to create templates for your workloads and applications and apply them to servers with minimal effort.
Maintaining those servers is just as important, so when requirements change or firmware needs to be updated, you merely edit a single template. Changes are easily propagated across your infrastructure in the same repeatable and reliable fashion that you used to set it up.
Controlling your infrastructure through software doesn’t stop at templates. Part of moving into the digital age also means taking advantage of everything digital has to offer to create the optimal solutions.
Looking back at our pizza example, Domino’s Pizza didn’t stop with the pizza slice emoticon. They’ve partnered with some of the coolest tech around, such as smart home speakers and smart TVs, to enable its customers to easily order – even when their phone is buried deep somewhere in the couch. In fact, the list of ways it has come up with for customers to order pizza is mind-boggling — this company seems to have something for everybody.
Here’s something to think about. Does your data center take advantage of today’s tech to have something for everybody? Do you have tools that make your infrastructure easily accessible to developers in your company? Do you have automation tools that make life easier for IT admins? Templates are great but automating them is even better. Integrating tools that can intelligently predict changes in workload needs and shuffle around resources to meet them are the kinds of tools you want. The best way to achieve this is to choose an infrastructure management solution that has an open, unified API that allows you to easily integrate these tools, and again, do it with minimal effort.
Lastly, it’s also key to make sure that you’re able to software-define with one infrastructure management solution for many different platforms within your data center, not just servers or storage. Lots of companies offer management solutions that manage all your servers, and then another solution to manage your storage, and another to manage your networking. Domino’s doesn’t have separate tools for you to order pizza, brownies, or a salad. Your data center is one product that is delivering services to your company, so you should manage all of it as one.
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Are you ready to software-define? Consider HPE OneView—one tool that allows you to automate, integrate, and innovate better in your data center. HPE OneView uses template-based provisioning and updating to speed time-to-value for the services you deliver with your infrastructure. HPE OneView also simplifies the lifecycle management of your infrastructure and makes it easy to integrate with today’s most innovative tools such as Chef, Docker, Puppet, Ansible, Microsoft, VMware, and more by leveraging an open, unified API. With HPE OneView, you can software-define your HPE solutions such as HPE ProLiant servers, HPE BladeSystem, HPE 3PAR, and more.
Think about how you could distill your processes down to be simpler and faster, then head over to hpe.com/info/oneview to learn more about how you can leverage HPE OneView to get started. Or, download the free e-book, HPE OneView for Dummies to learn more.
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You’ve spent time, money, blood, sweat and tears building your company. Could you imagine leaving your doors open at night so anyone could come in and take what they want? What about letting people lock you out of your own business?
No one would ever allow either scenario to happen, which is why companies spend fortunes on physical security every year. But the risks that a burglar absconds with your life’s work is incredibly remote compared to the real possibility that a hacker could take everything you’ve worked for. Yet, most small and medium sized businesses invest very little if at all in cybersecurity even though the threat is far more significant and far more real.
Perhaps the reason for this disparity is because cyber threats and solutions do not feel tangible enough. Door locks and security cameras are concrete tools for preventing physical intrusions but whereas the thought of an interloper creates a visceral reaction, most people have trouble conceptualizing the effect of a data breach or a ransomware attack. It is even harder to conceptualize the value of cybersecurity solutions such as penetration testing, encryption, and employing a CISO.
Which is why our cybersecurity experts put together the Alliant Cybersecurity Cyber Threats and Cyber Vigilance White Paper. The paper is designed to make cyber threats and cybersecurity into tangible concepts by presenting detailed statistics on the current threat landscape, descriptions of the most commonly employed hacks and what steps companies should be taking to defend themselves.
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Google is bringing some exciting new features to Android Wear, the most notable of which is the ability to take and make phone calls when tethered with a phone. And, in addition to making calls, users can also listen to audio/video messages with apps like Glide.
(The bad news is that you need a built in speaker in your watch to be able to do so and while some of the upcoming Android Wear devices, including the Huawei Watch and the ASUS ZenWatch 2, have speakers, the existing range of Android Wear watches don’t.)
Google is also adding new gestures to the operating system. In addition to using a flick of the wrist to scroll up and down your card stream, “starting today you can also expand a card, bring up your apps, or return home to your watch face with a push, lift orshake.”
The Android Wear updates are also making the voice commands smarter. Previously, when you said “Ok Google send message to Jennifer,” it used Hangouts to send the message. But now you can tell Google which app to use to perform a task. Like this: “Ok Google, send a WhatsApp message to Jen: I have finished the story.”
Google will be pushing OTA updates to Android Wear devices in the coming weeks. But if you want to hear your watch talk, you need to buy a new one.
As for me, I own both Android watches and Apple Watch and ultimately settled on Apple Watch for the ability to make phone calls directly from the watch, the simpler UI and more native apps. With updates like this, that may change.
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A Chinese electronics firm has recalled millions of products sold in the US following a massive cyber attack which briefly blocked access to websites including Twitter and Netflix.
Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology said millions of web-connected cameras and digital recorders became compromised because customers failed to change their default passwords.
The hack has heightened long-standing fears among security experts that the rising number of interconnected home gadgets, appliances and even cars represents a cyber security nightmare.
The added convenience of being able to control home electronics via the web also leaves them more vulnerable to malicious intruders, experts say.
Unidentified hackers seized control of gadgets including Xiongmai's on Friday and directed them to launch an attack that temporarily disrupted access to a host of sites, which also included Amazon and Spotify, according to US web security researchers.
The "distributed denial-of-service" attack targeted servers run by Dyn Inc, an internet company located in Manchester, New Hampshire in the US.
These types of attacks work by overwhelming targeted computers with junk data so that legitimate traffic cannot get through.
"The issue with the consumer-connected device is that there is nearly no firewall between devices and the public internet," said Tracy Tsai, an analyst at Gartner, adding that many consumers leave the default setting on devices for ease of use without knowing the dangers.
Researchers at the New York-based cyber security firm Flashpoint said most of the junk traffic heaped on Dyn came from internet-connected cameras and video-recording devices that had components made by Xiongmai.
These components had little security protection, so devices they went into became easy to exploit.
In an acknowledgement of its products' role in the hack, Xiongmai said it would recall products sold in the US before April 2015 to demonstrate "social responsibility".
It said products sold after that date had been patched and no longer constitute a danger.
Liu Yuexin, Xiongmai's marketing director, said Xiongmai and other companies across the home surveillance equipment industry were made aware of the vulnerability in April 2015.
Mr Liu said Xiongmai moved quickly to plug the gaps and should not be singled out for criticism.
"We don't know why there is a spear squarely pointed at our chest," he added.
The company, which also makes dashboard cameras and computer chips, said it would recall more than four million web-connected cameras and has offered customers a software security fix.
The recall will apply only to devices sold under Xiongmai's name. As an original equipment manufacturer, close to 95% of the company's products are sold by other firms which repackage its devices under their own brand names, Mr Liu said.
Xiongmai and Dahua, a video surveillance manufacturer also based in the eastern Chinese tech hub of Hangzhou, first came under scrutiny several weeks ago after Flashpoint assessed that hackers had controlled their devices to attack the website of cyber security writer Brian Krebs, among other targets.
Dahua has responded by saying it is dedicated to testing vulnerabilities, and has offered discounts for replacement equipment.
Xiongmai has adopted a less conciliatory stance. It downplayed its culpability this week, saying that as even the world's largest technology companies experience security lapses, "we are not afraid to also experience it once".
Xiongmai also slammed "completely untrue, malicious and defamatory" reports about its products and appended to its statement a letter from its lawyers threatening litigation.
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This might be off topic, but I was wondering I am using Postfix 2.9.x and am wanting to integrate antivirus capabilities. What are the
try to make it into a swiss army knife. > This might be off topic, but I was wondering I am using Postfix 2.9.x > and am wanting to integrate antivirus capabilities. I know in Debian/Ubuntu clamav-milter > doesn't have a lot of users and does not get heavily tested. I don't know > generally though and have never used it.
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Digital Catapult, the UK authority on advanced digital technology, welcomed a further 14 companies to its Digital Security by Design (DSbD) Technology Access Programme.
They will be joining the 10 companies onboarded earlier this year to experiment with prototype cybersecurity technology that, if fully implemented, could revolutionise the cybersecurity landscape for good.
The vast majority of cyber attacks exploit conventional hardware and software memory vulnerabilities. To overcome this issue, University of Cambridge researchers with colleagues at SRI International developed CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions), a novel instruction set architecture that could stop two thirds of cyber attacks.
As part of the project, Arm designed and built a prototype system on a chip (SoC) and demonstrator board, the Arm Morello board, which was made available to UK businesses for industrial evaluation earlier in 2022. The DSbD Technology Access Programme, managed by Digital Catapult, allows companies to experiment with the Morello board.
Companies already involved in the programme so far have been able to add their own software stacks to the Morello board and catch vulnerabilities in their code, highlighting areas that need to be enhanced.
Participating companies range from large organisations serving a multitude of sectors to vibrant small and medium-sized enterprises spanning the automotive, fintech and telecom sectors including cyber security consultancies specialising in Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain technology and cyber security. Companies will use DSbD technologies to address a wide range of security issues such as improving resilience of a Wi-Fi supplicant to over the air attack or strengthening digital security of devices permanently connected to the Internet within safety-critical systems such as vehicles.
In March 2023 select participating companies will be invited to share their use cases at a showcase event at Digital Catapult’s London office.
Prof. John Goodacre, Challenge Director, Digital Security by Design, UK Research and Innovation, said:
As we move into the second half of the Digital Security by Design programme, it’s encouraging to see the rapidly increasing interest in the Arm Morello prototype board.
The breadth of companies taking part in this programme is key to enabling this fundamental step-change in computing and provides businesses the early visibility to differentiate and deliver security-first products across industry and society.
Katy Ho, Head of Innovation Practice, Digital Catapult said:
Digital Catapult is delighted to welcome more companies through the Technology Access Programme. The ambition of the DSbD programme to enable and catalyse a paradigm shift in how secure products and services are built can only be realised through effecting change in every part of the ecosystem.
The companies experimenting with the Morello board will play a pivotal role through testing and validating the use cases and propositions of DSbD technologies and providing invaluable feedback to the ecosystem.
Participating company Oxon Tech has been involved with DSbD from inception, having evaluated the CHERI technology before the hardware release. Chris Murrey from Oxon Tech said:
In 2021 we evaluated the CHERI technology using the Fixed Virtual Platform for a project developed for the UK’s Fire and Rescue Services including embedded and mobile software. From the start it was clear this technology would go a massive way towards the security of the code we write by eliminating one of the most common vulnerabilities – memory errors.
The DSbD Technology Access Program is an exciting next step for us as it’s our first chance to get our hands on the hardware itself. This gives us a great chance to build on our first development and apply it to more real-world scenarios.
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https://www.scotlandis.com/blog/companies-across-the-uk-join-digital-security-by-design-to-validate-next-gen-cybersecurity-tech/
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When you say it will only get worse, in what context do you make that statement? Also, who do you see at the us who will be installing the solution? Do you think the building automation providers should install the solution or the IT providers? How do you deal with hundreds of non-traditional devices each requiring IP addresses allocated to them.
Read my blog @ www.buildingautomationmonthly.com
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https://community.infosecinstitute.com/discussion/118760/what-are-your-thoughts-on-the-new-cisco-digital-ceilings-solution
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Upon arrival, Princess Leonor was warmly welcomed by the director of the IES, Mr. Julio Verne, and the General Director of the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE), Ms. Rosa Díaz
The day began with the round table discussion on the use of social media and security in communications, which was moderated by INCIBE’s Cybersecurity Technician, Ms. Cristina Gutiérrez.
After the meeting, the princess visited a classroom where a group debate was taking place led by one of the experts representing the INCIBE. After the debate, Princess Leonor visited the school gym where “…500 students attended a presentation of the conclusions of the day led by the general director of INCIBE…” according to the Spanish royal court.
The day ended with Her Royal Highness Princess Leonor taking a group photo with the students of the school.
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https://royalcorrespondent.com/2022/04/20/video-her-royal-highness-princess-leonor-of-asturias-attends-a-conference-on-youth-and-cyber-security-in-madrid/?amp=1
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i am surprised each single day about the way humans think about normal-lifestyles security interior businesses. big or small; each person has weaknesses that pass unnoticed till catastrophe moves.
whether it’s an employee, a disgruntled employee or an outside entity who gained get admission to your agency; it doesn’t rely lots. Any of them can cause your agency to move bankrupt instantly while the activity is executed efficiently and no catastrophe recover plan is in region.
The high-quality way to persuade management that they want a catastrophe get better plan; it to burn down the building across the street.
it is evident that you need to make backups of your systems. however who ever checks if the backups are valid and not corrupted? Who assessments them for viruses? Who shops them offsite? Who stores them on multiple places even? in case you do; how are those places secured? in all likelihood no longer in addition to the location in which the (file)servers are that you’ve simply backed up. I would like to have a backup restored that i’ve injected with an exploit after corrupting the unique files/drives.
irrespective of any of the digital protection structures you have got set up; irrespective of how five-famous person your IDS/IPS is; if I stroll into your building and provide you with a handshake, you could be pretty darn sure i have a goal for supplying you with that handshake. I can be a printer provider man that is available in to run your workplace printers for his or her preservation… not many people recognize that maximum community printers are basically unsecured computer systems which might be installed to the company network, and feature the WORST safety EVER in relation to password safety and storage. “within five minutes i’ll be capable of get the admin passwords for the community, ensuing in me proudly owning your organisation network and information.” that is just one simple manner of social engineering. the primary rule is that individuals who mean to do harm significantly do not supply some thing about the manner how they gain their aim. They sense no regret; they haven’t any moral. they will do whatever it takes to get what they need to have.
when you go to any geek website you could purchase USB keyloggers; mini pen-cameras and numerous different small gear to spy right away and with subsequent day shipping. that is very horrifying; there are keyloggers that don’t even want to be recovered. They ship their logs thru wifi / 4g to e mail; so the social engineer simply plugs it in and runs. an excellent greater evil model install itself routinely at the user’s pc overlooked.
humans have a herbal tendency to agree with; and that is the vulnerability that social engineers take advantage of. and will do very efficiently till the end of time as we know it. Social Engineering is far extra critical to be protected against than another form of hacking. so long as humans click on an email or do what a person asks them to do over the phone, IPS/IDS and firewalls stand no threat.
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https://healthhfinance.com/social-engineering-why-i-think-your-business-should-care/
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Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, today announced the findings of its global survey, “Phishing Insights 2021,” which reveals that phishing attacks targeting organizations ramped up considerably during the pandemic, as millions of employees working from home became a prime target for cybercriminals.
The majority (66%) of IT teams in Nigeria said the number of phishing emails targeting their employees increased during 2020.
“Phishing has been around for over 25 years and remains an effective cyberattack technique. One of the reasons for its success is its ability to continuously evolve and diversify, tailoring attacks to topical issues or concerns, such as the pandemic, and playing on human emotions and trust,” said Chester Wisniewski, principal research scientist at Sophos. “It can be tempting for organizations to see phishing attacks as a relatively low-level threat, but that underestimates their power. Phishing is often the first step in a complex, multi-stage attack. According to Sophos Rapid Response, attackers frequently use phishing emails to trick users into installing malware or sharing credentials that provide access to the corporate network.”
The good news is that most organizations in Nigeria (86%) have implemented cybersecurity awareness programs to combat phishing. Respondents said they use computer-based training programs (55%), human-led training programs (39%), and phishing simulations (36%).
“The ideal would be to prevent phishing emails from ever reaching their intended recipient,” said Wisniewski. “Effective email security solutions can go a long way towards achieving this, but this should be complemented by alert and primed employees who are able to spot and report suspicious messages before they get any further.”
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https://itnewsnigeria.ng/2021/09/14/phishing-attacks-66-organizations-in-nigeria-report-increase-says-sophos-latest-report/
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Discuss the evolution of security based on historical events.
List various types of malicious software.
Describe key cybersecurity concepts including the CIA Triad, access management, incident response and common cybersecurity best practices.
Identify key cybersecurity tools which include the following: firewall, anti-virus, cryptography, penetration testing and digital forensics.
This specialization will provide you with the basics you need to get started. Throughout this specialization, you will learn concepts around cybersecurity tools and processes, system administration, operating system and database vulnerabilities, types of cyber attacks and basics of networking. You will also gain knowledge around important topics such as cryptography and digital forensics.
This specialization is truly an international offering from IBM with experts from the United States, Costa Rica, Canada and Italy. These instructors are architects, Security Operation Center (SOC) analysts, and distinguished engineers who work with cybersecurity in their day to day lives at IBM. They will share their skills which they need to secure IBM and its clients security systems.
Learners will apply the skills they acquire to complete assessment exams as well as a project at the end of the four courses within this specialization.
You will learn the history of Cybersecurity, types and motives of cyber attacks to further your knowledge of current threats to organizations and individuals. Key terminology, basic system concepts and tools will be examined as an introduction to the Cybersecurity field.
You will learn about critical thinking and its importance to anyone looking to pursue a career in Cybersecurity. This course is intended for anyone who wants to gain a basic understanding of Cybersecurity or as the first course in a series of courses to acquire the skills to work in the Cybersecurity field as a Jr Cybersecurity Analyst. The completion of this course also makes you eligible to earn the Introduction to Cybersecurity Tools & Cyber Attacks IBM digital badge. More information about the badge can be found https://www.youracclaim.com/org/ibm/badge/introduction-to-cybersecurity-tools-cyber-attacks
process and technology. You will learn:
● Understand the key cybersecurity roles within an Organization. ● List key cybersecurity processes and an example of each process. ● Describe the architecture, file systems, and basic commands for multiple operating systems including Windows, Mac/OS, Linux and Mobile. ● Understand the concept of Virtualization as it relates to cybersecurity Finally, you will begin to learn about organizations and resources to further research cybersecurity issues in the Modern era. The completion of this course also makes you eligible to earn the Cybersecurity Roles, Processes & Operating System Security IBM digital badge. This course gives you the background needed to understand the key cybersecurity compliance and industry standards. This knowledge will be important for you to learn no matter what cybersecurity role you would like to acquire or have within an organization.
You will learn the basic commands for user and server administration as it relates to security. You will need this skill to be able to understand vulnerabilities within your organizations operating systems. You will learn the concepts of endpoint security and patch management. Both of these topics are important to keep systems current to avoid cybersecurity incidents against an organization. Finally you will learn in depth skills around cryptography and encryption to understand how these concepts affect software within a company. This course is intended for anyone who wants to gain a basic understanding of Security Frameworks, Compliance, endpoint management, encryption or cryptography or as the third course in a series of courses to gain the skill as a Jr Cybersecurity analyst.
You will learn the about Local Area Networks, TCP/IP, the OSI Framework and routing basics. You will learn how networking affects security systems within an organization. You will learn the network components that guard an organization from cybersecurity attacks.
In addition to networking, you will learn about database vulnerabilities and the tools/knowledge needed to research a database vulnerability for a variety of databases including SQL Injection, Oracle, Mongo and Couch. You will learn about various security breach types associated with databases and organizations that define standards and provide tools for cybersecurity professionals.
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https://www-cloudfront-alias.coursera.org/specializations/it-fundamentals-cybersecurity
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Read what Akintunde Adeyemi had to say on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6560105031268474880/
For improving the security aspect of my organization, I decided to take up EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH) training program. This program helped me to get familiar with Kali Linux, which was a new experience. With that, iLabs were the most thrilling part of the entire training. It came with well-structured and detailed training material. C|EH left me with abundant knowledge and skills to use multiple tools, software, and frameworks, such as Nmap and Metasploit. If you can take up a new challenge and have the determination to provide a solution, then cybersecurity is definitely meant for you.
For all the CyberSec professionals and aspirants, I would say, pick a CyberSec domain, attend relevant seminars/webinars/conferences/training programs, do self-study, follow latest trends, and attain credible credentials (like ANSI accredited and DoD recognized C|EH) to validate your technical skills and in-depth knowledge.
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https://blog.eccouncil.org/akintunde-adeyemi-it-security-administrator-at-fidson-healthcare-plc-talks-about-the-ceh-credential/
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BRIEF: Climate physical risk analysis company XDI and global energy and finance risk consultancy firm Baringa Partners have announced they will be collaborating to provide a complete solution for climate change scenario development and portfolio impact assessment.
The alliance, announced yesterday during Climate Week in New York, will combine Baringa’s expertise in energy transition and financial risk analysis with XDI’s climate change physical risk assessment technology into a single tool offering vigorous assessment of the impact of climate change on assets.
The market for such high caliber, in-depth and integrated climate change assessments has been growing rapidly in recent times, according to XDI’s head of science and technology, Karl Mallon.
“There has been a significant uptake in the last six months,” he told The Fifth Estate, “particularly with TFCFDI (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures Initiative) gaining momentum around the world and the impacts of climate change becoming more visible.”
This is leading financial institutions, in addition to government and utilities companies, to increasingly view such rigorous climate assessment as a strategic imperitive, according to Oliver Rix, partner at Baringa.
“[They are] recognising that this will increasingly be a regulatory requirement in many jurisdictions around the world,” Rix said.
The collaboration between XDI and Baringa will enable banks, insurers and asset managers to understand how climate change impacts future profits and losses through impacts on equity values, debt pricing and credit risk, as well as aid them in meeting regulatory requirements and the implementation of TCFD and other types of reporting and compliance worldwide.
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https://www.thefifthestate.com.au/briefs/collaboration-for-climate-risk-assessment/
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Prison phone companies are trying to stop a new Federal Communications Commission effort to impose rate caps on intrastate calls, with one executive claiming that immediate enforcement of new caps will cause "jail unrest."
The phone companies and the FCC have different interpretations of a stay order issued on March 7. Prison phone companies say the court order should mostly preserve the status quo, while the FCC argues that the order lets it apply its existing caps on interstate call rates to intrastate calls.
Securus Technologies CEO Richard Smith filed an affidavit in federal appeals court yesterday, arguing that the FCC has misinterpreted the court order and that imposing the rate caps on intrastate calls will cause problems in prisons and jails. Under a heading titled "Jail Unrest," Smith's affidavit stated:
This chaos and confusion about what is the correct intrastate calling rate—and the only answer is that there is no federally mandated intrastate calling rate after the Court's March 7 Order which stayed all new rates—will carry over into correctional facilities themselves. Inmates will be angry if they believe that Securus is charging the wrong rates. There could be damage to Securus phones and equipment, as well as a threat to overall security and corrections personnel including inmates within the facilities. Having been in this industry for eight years, I have experience with jail unrest and I know that issues with the phones can trigger it.
The affidavit was part of an emergency motion in which Securus asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to modify the stay order.
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The debate involves two sets of rate caps issued by the FCC. The first, issued in 2013, were interim caps of 21¢ to 25¢ per minute that applied only to interstate calls, those that cross state lines. The second set of rate caps, issued in 2015, imposed limits of 11¢ to 22¢ to per minute on all calls, including both interstate calls and the intrastate calls that occur entirely within one state.
FCC commissioners say the price caps are necessary because the price of calls sometimes hits $14 per minute.
The March 7 stay halted implementation of the 2015 rate caps until the prison phone companies' lawsuit against the FCC is decided. But the judge's order also left the 2013 price caps in place, and it did not object to a change the FCC made to its definition of "inmate calling service." The new definition deletes the word "interstate."
After some legal review of the stay, the FCC decided that with its new definition it can apply the interim rate caps to intrastate calls. On Wednesday, the FCC issued a notice telling prison phone companies that it intends to do so beginning Thursday of this week. This was followed by Securus's emergency motion.
Prison phone companies Global Tel*Link (GTL) and Telmate filed similar motions.
"The FCC’s action violates the clear intent of this Court’s stay order—which was to prevent new and untested regulation of intrastate rates from taking effect," GTL wrote. While Securus asked for a modification of the original order, GTL said the court should simply "enforce its prior order by clarifying that none of the FCC’s rate caps may be applied to intrastate calls pending judicial review."
The court asked the FCC to file a response by Tuesday.
The FCC's 2015 order also put limits on certain ancillary fees related to inmate calls. The stay order did not affect those limits, which include $3 for making automated payments by phone or website, $5.95 for making payments with a "live agent," and $2 for "paper bill fees."
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/prison-phone-company-says-price-cap-enforcement-will-cause-jail-unrest/
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XP Police Antivirus is a bogus security program for Windows system. It will attempt to persuade users into obtaining the registered version by providing fake scan results on victim’s computer. This fake anti-virus software comes from a large group of malicious applications that has created various variants of it. XP Police Antivirus is just a mimic of the other versions and only obvious change is its name. Graphical user interface and method of propagation remains the same. Usually, XP Police Antivirus will be acquired from web sites that will disguise as an online virus scanner. These web sites will automatically run a scan on visitor’s machine, although it is not a real process, it will detect a number of threats in order to push visitors to install the trial version of XP Police Antivirus.
Innocent users may think that the endorsed program will help remove threats, so many have fallen into the trick of this rogue program. Right after it is installed; it will carry another local scan on the computer and detects dozens of threats. An advice to remove these infections follows but can only be performed if the licensed version of XP Police Antivirus is purchased. Users will be brought to an online payment web site where credit card account is needed to complete the transaction.
1. Download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware from this link and save it on your Desktop.
2. After downloading, double-click on mbam-setup.exe to install the application.
3. Follow the prompts and install as default only.
4. Before the installation completes, check on the following prompts:
5. Click Finish. Program will run automatically and you will be prompt to update the program before doing a scan. Please update.
6. Scan your computer thoroughly.
7. When scanning is finished click on the Show Results button.
8. Make sure that all detected threats are marked, click on Remove Selected.
Spot on. Removed the XP Police antivirus problem in seconds and everything has been sweet since. If it wasn’t for you people the worlds computer would all be smoking.
It is a very deep coded virus, all protected, stops amdin access, the whole 9 yards. All good now though!
Managed to get the same thing…..bugga that it is to get rid of, wont even let you into Cont – alt – delete.
I managed to sort it by going into control panel and restoring my computer to an earlier date.
No pop up and I can browse with ease.
I of course did delete it in the programme files too.
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https://precisesecurity.com/blogs/2009/01/27/xp-police-antivirus
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Google this week announced the first stable release of Chrome 105, which comes with patches for 24 vulnerabilities, including 13 use-after-free and heap buffer overflow bugs.
Twenty-one of the resolved security defects were reported by external researchers, including one critical-, eight high-, nine medium-, and three low-severity vulnerabilities.
A total of nine use-after-free issues were resolved with the latest browser update, the most important of which is a critical flaw in the Network Service component, reported by Google Project Zero researcher Sergei Glazunov, the company notes in an advisory.
Chrome 105 also patches five high-severity use-after-free vulnerabilities, impacting browser components such as WebSQL, Layout, PhoneHub, and Browser Tag.
Google says it handed out between $5,000 and $10,000 for four of the issues, but has yet to determine the amount to be paid for the fifth.
Other high-severity bugs the latest Chrome update resolves include a heap buffer overflow in Screen Capture, an inappropriate implementation in Site Isolation, and an insufficient validation of untrusted input in V8.
Three of the medium-severity flaws that Chrome 105 patches are heap buffer overflow bugs, two are use-after-free issues, two insufficient policy enforcements, and two inappropriate implementations.
Google says it has paid more than $60,000 in bug bounty rewards to the reporting researchers, but the internet giant has yet to determine the amount to be paid for five of the bugs and the total amount could be higher.
The latest browser iteration is now rolling out to Mac and Linux users as Chrome 105.0.5195.52 and to Windows users as Chrome 105.0.5195.52/53/54.
Google made no mention of any of these vulnerabilities being exploited in malicious attacks.
So far this year, there have been five documented Chrome zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks. The most recent of them was addressed roughly two weeks ago.
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https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-105-patches-critical-high-severity-vulnerabilities
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No Russian criminals aren't smarter, they just don't have federal groups throwing them in jail so they can get away with more.
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Trump claims he's great at building things, I say we find out. Give him a bag of cement, bricks and a trowel and tell him to get to it. Let's see how he does.
Otherwise, what he really means is that he's good at telling other people to build so he doesn't have to.
I'd add: he's good at telling other people to build things with other people's money, so if the first other people screw up, the second other people are the ones losing their shirts, not him.
That's the key to getting ultra-rich these days, especially in Wall Street - take a profit/bonus when things are good, let someone else take the loss when they are bad. Building something tangible along the way is incidental, and in fact usually just a distraction.
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"This particular group used a series of security vulnerabilities, but most of the time, it was using the CVE-2015-5119 flaw in Flash, which allowed the group to compromise computers and later infect them with spambots. Cisco reports that, in most cases, the main payload was the Tofsee spambot variant, which infected Windows machines via Internet Explorer."
That would make the ISP responsible for investigating Cisco's claim (which may be false), which means they'd have to hire techs and so on. If they shut th
Cisco would be better suing the ISP for the sites details, and then suing the site owners in the court.
In Russian courts. Good luck with that. The hackers are probably protected and/or financed by the Russian mafia, which means they are effectively protected by the Russian government.
They are better off convincing US or EU organizations the ISP is refusing to shut down known criminals, and getting the ISP blocked from Western countries/ISPs. Like most things of this nature, morality and politics are useless, it's only going to be fixed when it affects their wallet...
cisco is not responsible for policing the net, nor is it legally able to interpret law, and has no power whatsoever to enforce it. this seems to be pure vigilantism at best , and no different from actions of a criminal gang at worst.
let legitimate law enforcement do their job following due process. if they are behind the times that a function of freedom and speed of progress.
The difference is the Russian government doesn't even bother hiding its support for the Russian oligarchy aka mafia.
But the real question is, why that did not concern you in 1990s, when Russia resembled the oligarchy/mafia-run state the most? Some sort of a 15-years lag in perception? I remember talking to Americans in early 2000s and they believed Russia was about the Communism. Now it's 2016 and you believe Russia is about the Oligarchy/Mafia. Hopefully you learn something in the next 15 years. ;-)
I can only suggest that you not take your limited exposure and extrapolate it to make assumptions based on everyone. That's not a very good method for drawing reasonable conclusions.
Surely. And I can only humbly suggest that you more better appreciate sarcasm.
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And even if it had, it would be in USA. Russia, you know, is a different country, with different authorities and different laws. What would your average USA company do if it recieved a requirement from a private company from another country but exactly the same?
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Remember this when I leave your website or refuse to turn off my ad blockers.
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I tell everyone I know to use them.
Advertisers either fix your shit or loose out? If you can't regulate yourselves in regards to 3rd party networks and ethical ads then you will be out of business.
Fact of the matter is it is too dangerous to run without one. That should go right up there with browsing the net as administrator or root and using IE 6 these days.
Also for those who say they are safe as long as they don't click or run anything, all I can say is told you so! Open a page with flash and your 0wned. Simple
How can you be sure? Well, you could try measuring it and then weighing it. 'Snot really complicated. Tungsten, by volume, has a different weight than gold. That's why you're not in charge.
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Bet a hundred quatloos that this so-called "ISP" are the malware peddlers themselves. This is a fairly common reaction to abuse and spam complaints. You want us to shut down a paying customer? Otherwise they stand to lose more than they are profiting from network abuse. As long as effective public email blacklist exist, network providers will have to reluctantly terminate their spambags, else their entire network gets blacklisted and they lose more, as their other, non-spamming pissed off customers flee to other providers, in order to be able to send mail.
The same thing here. Presuming that this is a bone-fide provider, and not a sock puppet for the malware peddlers, the appropriate step of action is to escalate to their upstream, and attempt to get their cooperation, and have them agree to terminate the circuit to their rogue downstream provider, unless they get rid of the spamware peddlers. And keep escalating upstream, as far as necessary. Now, we're talking Cisco here, right? Well, it shouldn't take long before Cisco ends up talking to someone that uses their hardware in their core business. At this point, it's now going to be up to Cisco to put up and shut up, and inform their customer that unless this is dealt with, they will respectfully decline to renew their own customer's support contracts.
Could this sequence of events actually come to fruition? Extremely unlikely, but this is the only way to effectively deal with network abuse.
Either that, or they know fully well who their customers are
Yep, that would be my guess. It's by far the most likely explanation- they're either the peddlers themselves or they're partners with them.
The first question is why Cisco is even doing this. Cisco has no business in what their equipment is used for and shouldn't be telling or shutting down their customers. They should talk to Interpol and Russian law enforcement and IF it is illegal, they should do the shutting down.
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Why should it be any other way? Note the requestor is another company, not a legal authority, and it comes from a different country.
We should, in fact, be very much worried if it happened any different.
I let people into my house based on who I trust, recommendations from trusted sources etc. You might see that as random vigilantism but the government doesn't offer it, nor do I desire it to, provide recommendations on every individual. You don't have a legal right for your emails to reach me etc so why the hell would the lega
Of course yes, why the hell go throw the worries of having a legal system and legal forces to enact it when we can have some random vigilante telling apart what can and cannot be done.
This phenomenon is called "free speech", perhaps you've heard of it. "Anyone is free to say, on their web site, whether a particular sender's email should be accepted or rejected, and why. And it goes without saying that everyone else is free to either agree, or disagree and continue to use their own internal policy for email acceptance or rejectance."
Yes. And that's vigilantism, and it usually ends the way it usually ends.
You call it "vigilantism", I call it free speech.
My (strong) bet is that, if you are using any kind of blacklisting software you don't really know who are you blocking and why.
Actually two words: "arrogant elitism". You think you're smarter than everyone else, and that you know more about blacklists then the individual organizations who use them. That is, of course, a height of arrogance.
"So, you think you know more about someone who employs blacklisting, then they themselves."
Yes, I do. You see, I said "my (strong) bet": I'm pretty confident, not sure.
"There's a word for that too. Actually two words: "arrogant elitism"."
No, a single word is good enough: "experience". I usually work on email exchange platforms (not Microsoft Exchange, but SMTP hubs and smarthosts) and since my experience has been most postmasters using blacklists don't exactly know what emails are denying and why, bettin
Just like any other would do: interacting with them and paying attention both at their discourse and their facts.
"Gee, all of a sudden my mail server acquires this mysterious configuration setting that rejects mail from all IP addresses on this particular blacklist. I have absolutely no idea where it came from..."
That's basically the case more times than not. Long story short, too many times it goes more or less li
We're missing a lot of information here. Did Cisco email them in Russian? Did they ask nicely or post demands? Did they provide any evidence in the email?
Depending on the nature of the bad guys, we also have to consider that there could be consequences well beyond loss of a few accounts if they shut them down.
The key to effectively deal with network abuse is to make the responsible party understand that it's in their best interest to do that. The problem is that punishment is so severe that other ISPs will be very reluctant to use it so it's basically an empty threat.
Traffic degradation, reducing the bandwidth for packets directed towards misbehaving ISPs, now that's a little easier to sell and could again be very effective.
Of course this is running right into the net neutrality debate and goes under the heading of "be careful what you wish for". We want to shut down the cybercriminals, others want to shut down the torrent servers, and some even 2 replies beneath your current threshold.
There is a saying in Russia, which says that Russians do not give away Russians.
This is a cliche statement, which reflects the mentality of how some of the Russians are taught and trained themselves to believe of anyting non Russian related. Here is the caricature of Russian mentality which summarizes how they want to view you: https://www.facebook.com/photo... [facebook.com]
Jokes aside, in United States if somebody would want some law enforcement to give away their informers, we would say: screw you.
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I don't answer critical emails either. However, if you send me nice ones, or polite ones I might even read them.
You'd think that if this was something SERIOUS for Cisco, they'd at least bother to pick up the phone - maybe even go to the effort of finding someone who spoke russian. As it is, this outfit, like everyone else on the planet probably gets spammed senseless. Especially through public email addresses. Who can blame someone for ignoring emails from unsolicited sources?
To sum up, this sounds like the lazy excuse of an indolent individual: Why haven't you done X? asks the boss. "Well I sent them an email, but they never replied" whines the guy who just wants to get back to playing Facebook.
No one is obliged to accept their packets, and anyone is entitled to take Cisco's advice if they so choose.
The point isn't that they should obey Cisco, but that they should not want to host criminal activity, and if informed of it they should investigate and take action if warranted. Furthermore, it is in their interest to do so, since otherwise other networks will stop exchanging packets with them, and their non-criminal clients will be disadvantaged and leave. Of course, that assumes they have non-crimina 1 threshold.
Who do you think hit the Ukrainian power network the other week? Who do you think regularly attacks Ukrainian government web sites? Who do you think allows the army of Russian trolls located in St. Petersburg [rferl.org] to remain active to spew their nonsense [nytimes.com]?
If anyone is surprised the Russians don't respond to close down hackers emanating from within their borders, they've been living under a rock for the last decade. This is what Russia is now known for, other than collapsing economy and a ruble not far behi
Curiously enough, I am just running an analysis of several thousand domains hosted by Eurobyte. My preliminary data on about 7500 domains currently or historically hosted by this block is that 35% of them are tagged by Google as being malicious in some way. I'm guessing that most of the others are also malicious, but they haven't been tagged.
Eurobyte operate a fairly big block rented from Webazilla, which is 46.30.40.0/21.. and I recommend that you block traffic to that entire lot. But a lot of Webazilla's other customer [he.net] are pretty shitty too. I don't think you miss much if you blocked traffic to the entire AS35415.
The only thing I can see in common in those three is that they consistently whoop the US's ass in ice hockey.
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Today’s endpoint security products do what they were designed to do, but they still leave gaps in protection. Comprehensive endpoint protection requires prevention, AV, endpoint detection and response (EDR) and other capabilities. Even when organizations adopt multiple point products, there are still gaps in their endpoint protection.
Some companies tout “next-generation endpoint security,” but what does that mean? Jim Waggoner, Sr. Director of Endpoint Product Management at FireEye will tell you how to make sure your next-generation endpoint security solution is delivering a comprehensive. In this webinar, you will:
Learn about the current endpoint security landscape and the challenges it poses.
Find out what makes EDR capabilities valuable.
Understand why threat intelligence is important and how it affects endpoint threat detection and prevention.
Discover why a single endpoint agent should include:
Multiple detection and prevention engines.
Integrated workflows from detection to investigation to remediation.
Scalable, multiple form factors and breadth of OS support.
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https://www2.fireeye.com/Webinar-Smarter-Endpoint-Security.html?utm_source=fireeye&utm_medium=webinar-page
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Microsoft ended assist for the corporate’s Windows 7 working system on January 14, 2020 and revealed a day later that it would not support Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 both anymore. The timing was as dangerous because it might be contemplating vulnerability that affected Internet Explorer 7 was found after assist finish that Microsoft rated crucial (the very best severity ranking).
Microsoft confirmed that it was conscious of restricted assaults focusing on the vulnerability and that directors ought to anticipate a patch to reach on the second Tuesday of February, the corporate’s month-to-month Patch Tuesday.
Administrators could apply a workaround on methods to guard in opposition to assaults.
Microsoft will present the patch for Enterprise clients and companies which might be subscribed to the Extended Security Updates program. Home customers alternatively can not be a part of this system to increase assist for Windows 7 by as much as three years.
While it’s nonetheless up for debate whether or not Microsoft will launch a patch for Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7, safety firm zeroPatch stepped in as promised and launched a micropatch that fixes the vulnerability primarily based on a workaround that Microsoft recommended.
The firm announced in late 2019 that it might create and launch safety updates for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 after the official assist finish of each merchandise in January 2020.
A blog post on the official zeroPatch web site gives particulars on the micropatch and the way it may be utilized to affected methods. According to the knowledge, the patch is offered for Windows 7, Windows 10 model 1709, 1803 and 1809, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2019.
Administrators who wish to set up the micropatch on supported gadgets must obtain the zeroPatch Agent from the corporate’s web site to get began. It is a free program that may be put in on Windows gadgets.
Note that it’s essential to register a free account as it’s worthwhile to sign-in to the applying. Once you might be signed in information is synced between the native system and the server to find out the patch state of the system. The program lists patches which might be accessible for free and for buy within the interface; all it takes is to get the Internet Explorer 11 patch put in for the system to guard it in opposition to assaults that focus on the vulnerability.
zeroPatch states that its patch doesn’t trigger the side-effects that Microsoft’s workaround is inflicting (internet functions that make use of jscript.dll won’t work anymore).
Administrators who run the zeroPatch Agent software program on their gadgets could toggle patches on or off within the interface.
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https://ltcfaces.com/technology/0patch-releases-patch-for-internet-explorer-vulnerability-also-for-windows-7/
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I regularly see my neighbors trying to connect to open wireless APs I run in my house. A while back, I set up a special open AP to give them Internet access. The cost? My entertainment.
My neighbor-hack AP is set up to manipulate the web traffic of its users, randomly redirecting people to websites of my choosing, manipulating the format and content of pictures they download and more. All it takes is an inexpensive AP, a Linux box, and an Internet connection.
In this talk, I'll show you how to set up your own neighbor-hack AP and, in the process, you'll learn just how scary (or fun) an open wireless AP can be.
Bonus Sessions
The following bonus sessions are open to all paid attendees at no additional cost. There are many different types of events that fall into these categories:
SANS@Night: Evening presentations given after day courses have ended. This category includes Keynotes.
Special Events: SANS-hosted events and other non-technical recreational offerings. This category includes, but is not limited to, Receptions and Information Tables.
Vendor: Events hosted by external vendor exhibitors.
Lunch & Learn: Short presentations given during the lunch break.
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https://www.sans.org/event/network-security-2013/bonus-sessions/2392
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AS LONG AS hackers have sold their secret hacking techniques known as zero-day exploits to government spies, they’ve generally kept that trade in the shadows. Today it’s come into the spotlight with the biggest bounty ever publicly offered for a single such exploit: $1 million for a technique that can break into an iPhone or iPad running Apple’s freshly released iOS 9.
On Monday, a new security industry firm known as Zerodium announced that it will pay that seven-figure sum to anyone who gives the company a hacking technique that can take over an iOS device remotely, via a web page the victim visits, a vulnerable app on the victim’s device, or by text message. The company says it’s willing to pay the bounty multiple times, though it may cap the payouts at $3 million.
THE APPLE ECOSYSTEM is well known for very rarely letting any dodgy apps enter it because of the company’s stringent security checks.
But recently, nearly two dozen malicious pieces of software managed to get hosted on the App Store, and subsequently downloaded by Chinese users. This is because attackers found an unorthodox route to exploit: they targeted some versions of the software used by developers to makes apps for iOS and OS X in the first place.
The Hack
The malware was first highlighted by Chinese developers on Weibo, and was then analyzed by researchers from Alibaba. Security company Palo Alto Networks then verified the results.
The hack all hinges around Xcode, a tool used to create iOS and OS X apps. Typically, Xcode is downloaded directly from Apple for free. However, it is possible to get Xcode from other sources too, such as developer forums. Some versions of Xcode found on Baidu Yunpan, a Chinese file-sharing service, come packaged with extra lines of code. The Alibaba researchers have dubbed these malicious variants “XcodeGhost.”
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E.J. Smith is the Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention. E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris. Please get in touch with E.J. at [email protected]. Sign up here to receive all the best content from Richardcyoung.com each week.
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https://www.richardcyoung.com/essential-news/iphone-ios9-hack-and-chinese-malware/
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The biggest challenges to accelerating cloud adoption is security, regulatory compliance, and transparency into transactions and systems into internal and especially outsourced cloud compute systems. In the cloud, a simple request by an end user can hit systems on the local LAN, external servers, public clouds, and any number of other resources before its complete.
That, many say, makes reading and understanding the logs of transactions that traverse highly virtualized and cloud-based systems challenging enough to call for a new cloud log standard. Not everyone agrees.
The cloud log challenges are something Misha Govshteyn, VP of technology and service provider solutions at security and log management provider Alert Logic says his company was increasingly running into with their hosting service provider customers.
"When they send us logs there is often nothing truly auditable within them," he says. "It's a mess of stuff that typical hardware and software devices throw off, but they have zero awareness of what resources are being requested: who asked for the service, what other services helped with the transaction, or even what was all actually consumed by the requestor," he says.
To that end, Alert Logic —with support from Datapipe, Eucalyptus Systems, Hosting.com, Mezeo Software, and Perimeter E-Security — recently proposed a standard, CloudLog, that aims to simplify log management across cloud providers and platforms. CloudLog, currently submitted as an informational RFC (Request For Comments) to the standards track of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), would simplify how to determine what virtual machines were running on what hardware, or what users, along with their associated roles, were accessing certain resources.
"Virtual machines are spun up and down all of the time, and they come up on different physical machines. If you end up with a physical machine that was compromised, it's quite the challenge to determine which virtual machines may have been running on that machine at certain times," says John Eastman, CTO of storage services provider Mezeo Software. "All you know is that the system was in the cloud," he says.
Eastman says that Mezeo has incorporated CloudLog, in its current state, into its Cloud Storage Platform as a way to simplify the logging of essential data. "Before we started using the CloudLog format, we had to try to figure out how to piece all of that information together, because even though we were logging it, it was tough to piece together what systems were supporting what virtual machines," he says. "Using CloudLog has helped us to address certain security objections, such as transparency into who was using exactly which virtual machine," Eastman explains.
Not everyone is convinced that a new standard is needed, including Raffael Marty, founder and chief operating officer at cloud-based logging service, Loggly.
"I would like to point out that the 'cloud,' be that SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS, does not require a new logging standard! We had multi-tier, as well as virtualized architectures for years and they are the real building blocks of the cloud. None of the cloud-specific attributes, like elasticity, utility-based payment, etc. require anything specific from a logging point of view," Marty wrote in his blog post, titled Why a Cloud Logging Standard Doesn't Make Any Sense.
Marty suggested that a logging effort that could help with virtualized, asynchronous, and distributed architectures be dealt with by the Common Event Expression log standard. However, Govshteyn contends that there hasn't been a single vendor implementation of the CEE standard, nor any specification draft publication for review.
"We need to move on this," Govshteyn says.
George V. Hulme writes about security and technology from his home in Minneapolis. He can be found on Twitter as @georgevhulme.
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https://www.csoonline.com/article/2127172/proposed-cloud-log-standard-sparks-controversy.html?page=1
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It injects itself in running processes.
It deletes the original file from which it was run once it is installed on the computer.
It modifies system permissions in order to hide itself.
dmRandom.WN does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=197539
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Arpinsert. B is a Trojan, which although seemingly inoffensive, can actually carry out attacks and intrusions: screenlogging, stealing personal data, etc.
Arpinsert. B does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking user's intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.
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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=195757
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With the advancing liberalization and globalization, credit risk control is gaining plenty of significance. It is very vital for banks today to understand and control credit risk. Banks nowadays positioned in quite a few efforts in coping with, modelling, and structuring credit risk.
Credit risk is defined as the capacity that a borrower or counterparty will fail to satisfy its duty according to agreed terms. RBI has been extremely sensitive to the credit score risk it faces on the domestic and worldwide front.
Credit risk control isn’t always simply a system or procedure. It is a fundamental component of the banking function. The management of credit risk ought to be incorporated into the fibre of banks.
Any bank today wishes to enforce efficient risk-adjusted to go back on capital methodologies and build current portfolio credit risk management systems. Credit Risk comes full circle. Traditionally the number one chance of economic establishments has been credit danger springing up via lending. As economic institutions entered new markets and traded new products, other risks such as marketplace risk started to compete for management’s attention. In the previous couple of decades, monetary institutions have developed tools and methodologies to manage market threats.
Recently the importance of dealing with credit score risk has grabbed control’s interest. Once again, the biggest venture facing financial establishments is credit score risk. In the last decade, enterprise and change have expanded rapidly each nationally and globally. By expanding, banks have taken on new marketplace risks and credit risk by way of coping with new customers and in some instances new governments also. Even banks that do not input into new markets are finding that the attention of credit score chance within their current market is a quandary to growth.
As a result, banks have created risk control mechanisms in an effort to facilitate their growth and to safeguard their interests. The project for economic institutions is to turn credit score chance into an opportunity. While the bank’s interest has lower back to credit score risk, the character of credit score danger has changed over the period.
Credit risk ought to be controlled at both the man or woman and the portfolio levels and that too both for retail and corporate. Managing credit risk requires particular expertise of the counterparty’s (borrowers) business and economic condition. While there are already numerous techniques and gear for evaluating individual, direct credit score transactions, comparable innovations for managing portfolio credit risk are only simply turning into available.
Likewise, a lot of traditional credit score risk control is passive. Such interest has blanketed transaction limits decided by means of the customer’s credit score rating, the transaction’s tenor, and the overall exposure level. Now there are more energetic control techniques.
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https://writix.co.uk/essay-examples/overview-of-credit-risk-management
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MS08-036 is not categorized as virus, worm, Trojan or backdoor. It is a group of important vulnerabilities in the Pragmatic General Multicast on Windows 2008/Vista/2003/XP computers, which allows to launch Denial of Service attacks.
The Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) is a protocol that enables receivers to detect loss, request retransmission of lost data or notify an application of unrecoverable loss.
MS08-036 allows hackers to cause the computer to stop responding and automatically restart.
This vulnerability is exploited by creating specially crafted PGM packets and sending them to a vulnerable computer.
If you have a Windows 2008/Vista/2003/XP computer, it is recommended to download and apply the security patch for this vulnerability. Click here to access the web page for downloading the patch.
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https://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/about-malware/encyclopedia/overview.aspx?idvirus=194866
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Last month, a US magistrate judge ordered Apple Inc. to give “reasonable technical assistance” to the FBI in its pursuit of the iPhone communications of Syed Farook, one of two shooters in the San Bernardino massacre in December. The agency has called for a specially-made “key” that would bypass encryption on Farook’s phone. Apple has refused to comply, saying the request would set a “dangerous” precedent for digital privacy, and that such a key “could be used over and over again, on any number of devices.”
Apple and the US Department of Justice are set to argue their case in front of a federal court on March 22.
Yet the FBI’s desire for access to iPhones goes back at least as far as 2014, when the Cupertino, California-based company introduced iOS 8, its latest operating system for mobile devices. The new system came with features that would prevent law enforcement investigators, hackers and even Apple from bypassing encryption. With iOS 8, photos, text messages and other communications stored on iPhones were now out of reach without a password.
Not long after the iOS 8 introduction, Apple offered the FBI access in order to study the operating system’s features. The company’s top lawyer, Bruce Sewell, was sent to Washington to preview iOS8 for then-Attorney General Eric Holder and other administration officials.
According to a new Bloomberg report, “many in the FBI were stunned” upon learning that techniques the agency had long used on Apple smartphones during criminal investigations would not work on the new operating system.
This created a rift between Apple ‒ who has been backed by many high-profile Silicon Valley tech companies ‒ and the Obama administration, Bloomberg reported. Even prior to 2014, the FBI chafed over Apple’s encryption protection of user privacy after the company introduced beefed-up security on its FaceTime app in 2010. But the fight between Apple and federal law enforcement only spilled out into the open following the San Bernardino mass shooting.
Following the iOS 8 introduction, Apple worked with the Obama administration to convince China to back off its push for anti-encryption policies directed at smartphone companies doing business there, Bloomberg reported. The Chinese government had called for a master key, essentially, that would unlock any smartphone’s encryption features.
China eventually dropped its pursuit of weakened encryption. In the process, Apple officials came to the conclusion that the White House was in its corner about encryption integrity. Ultimately, however, the Obama administration had come to no definitive conclusions about encryption as it applied to US law enforcement.
Meanwhile, researchers at Johns Hopkins University found a way to break Apple’s encryption in devices that used iMessage in operating systems introduced prior to 2011, the Washington Post reported.
Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Amazon, Microsoft and Twitter have all filed legal briefs in support of Apple’s position in its case with the FBI. Other tech companies, including LinkedIn and Reddit, offered a separate court filing in support of Apple, saying that an undermining of iPhone security “threatens the core principles of privacy, security, and transparency that underlie the fabric of the Internet.”
While these top tech companies have supported Apple in its fight with the FBI, they parted ways in a separate case involving design patents. It was announced on Monday that the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Samsung over the Korean company’s infringement of aspects of the iPhone design. In December, Samsung ‒ supported in legal briefs by the likes of Google and Facebook ‒ agreed to pay Apple more than $500 million in damages.
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http://rinf.com/alt-news/newswire/apple-fbi-encryption-tensions-spiked-upon-ios-8-reveal-in-2014-report/
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We have locked your Amazon account because our service detected two unauthorized devices. Our service has protected your account from someone who has accessed your Amazon account from another devices and locations.
Before someone can change your account information or order some item with your credit / debit card bill. For your security, we have locked your Amazon account.
To continue using your account again, we advise you to update the infomation before 24 hours or your account will be Permanently locked.
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https://www.verbraucherschutz.com/warnungsticker/vorsicht-gefaelschte-e-mail-von-amazon-phishing/
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Enterprises are accelerating their adoption of digitalization and agile methodologies, dramatically changing their risk profiles. As a consequence, many organizations continue to add layers of defense, which in turn increases the complexity of defending against the continued onslaught of more and more advanced attacks. You must evolve your security strategy by reframing your current thinking and simplifying your processes, organization and defenses.
Join Gartner experts and your peers at Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2022 to share valuable insights into key strategic imperatives, such as establishing an agile security program; fostering a human-centric, security-conscious culture; devolving risk ownership; and establishing a new simplified Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture. It will enable you to safeguard your organization, defend against your attackers and deliver business value.
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https://logrhythm.com/event/gartner-security-and-risk-management-summit-sydney/
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