Category: Cybersecurity
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White House Launches Cybersecurity Implementation Plan
Image: Maksym Yemelyanov/Adobe Stock U.S. President Biden’s administration this week released the first iteration of the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan, which was announced in March 2023. The plan aims to boost public and private cybersecurity resilience, take the fight to threat actors, beef up the defense of infrastructure and draw a clear national roadmap…
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Gartner: Due to stress, half of cyber leaders will change jobs, and a quarter will quit the field
Image: Gorodenkoff/Adobe Stock Gartner’s 2023-2024 cybersecurity outlook, which the consultancy presented this week, contains good news and bad. There has been a significant shift from three years ago when chief information security officers were struggling to exert board-level influence. Partly due to emerging technologies such as Web 3.0, conversational artificial intelligence, quantum computing and supply…
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How to add the Docker Scout feature to the Docker CLI
In this TechRepublic How to Make Tech Work tutorial, Jack Wallen shows you how to add the Docker Scout feature to the Docker CLI. [embedded content] You might have heard of Docker Scout, which is an image analyzer that ships with Docker Desktop. This tool makes it easy for developers to view vulnerabilities found in…
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Aqua Security Study Finds 1,400% Increase in Memory Attacks
Analysis of 700,000 real-world attacks shows how memory attacks evade protections and suggest mitigations. Image: tippapatt/Adobe Stock Threat actors are honing their focus on exploits that evade detection and remain unnoticed within systems, according to Aqua Security’s 2023 Cloud Native Threat Report, which examined memory attacks in networks and software supply chains. Must-read security coverage…
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Syxsense Unveils Novel Unified Endpoint Management Strategy
Syxsense now offers more IT and endpoint management functions, including mobile device management, automation, remediation and zero trust. Image: Adobe Stock/ArtemisDiana Syxsense recently unveiled its all-encompassing suite – Syxsense Enterprise, which comes with patch and vulnerability management, MDM, zero trust, automation and orchestration capabilities, and remediation. Syxsense began as a patch management company, but it…
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Dell Technologies World 2023: Q&A on how Dell sees security at the edge
Image: Adobe Stock In May 2023, Dell announced NativeEdge, an edge operations software platform. Dell has been talking to customers for years in advance of the release about the needs of technology operating at the edge. To get into the details, I spoke with Aaron Chaisson, Dell Technologies’ vice president of telecom and edge solutions…
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Akamai’s new study: Bots, phishing and server attacks making commerce a cybersecurity hotspot
The study shows attackers are using more bots and doing more sophisticated phishing exploits and server attacks, especially targeting retail. Image: Sashkin/Adobe Stock Attacks on commerce are booming, according to a new study by security firm Akamai. The company’s 15-month review beginning in January 2022 found that commerce was the most targeted web vertical, with…
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Cisco LIVE 2023: AI and security platforms innovations take center stage
Image: Cisco Organizations worldwide are dealing with short-staffed security operations, and a security parasol that stitches together numerous single-point solutions and hampers threat visibility. At its LIVE 2023 event in Las Vegas this week, Cisco revealed an array of solutions, paving stones on its path to a platform strategy called Cisco Security Cloud. Jeetu Patel,…
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Verizon 2023 DBIR: DDoS attacks dominate and pretexting lead to BEC growth
In Verizon’s just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, money is king, and denial of service and social engineering still hold sway. Image: Ar_TH /Adobe Stock Verizon’s just-released 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report shows the continued effectiveness of business email compromises. The study, which tracked incidents occurring between November 1, 2021 and October 31, 2022, found…
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Improve your app security on Azure
Image: PhotoGranary/Adobe Stock When cloud computing first became popular, it was seen as a way of reducing both friction and costs. It was much faster and cheaper to spin up a virtual machine in the cloud than to wait for a physical server to be approved, ordered, delivered and set up. SEE: Use this access…