Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The U.S. Treasury, also known as the Department of the Treasury, manages the finances of the U.S. government. This department has various duties, including maintaining the economic stability of the United States, managing government finances, and implementing policy decisions that impact both domestic and international affairs. Like most large organizations, the U.S.

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency that helps manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications, provides transportation and office space, and oversees the government’s real estate portfolio, among other management tasks.

This month's product updates and enhancements rollup includes “Ask AI” on Desktop and Mobile App, Geo Location Search, and Egnyte for Salesforce – Metadata for Folders. Below is a summary of these and other new releases. Visit the articles linked below for more details.

Everything we do at Vanta, from the products we build to the support we deliver, is focused on putting customers first. So we’re especially excited to share our latest customer milestone. ‍ We’ve crossed 1,000 reviews on G2 and for the sixth consecutive quarter, Vanta has been named the #1 Leader in G2’s Grid® Report for Security Compliance | Spring 2024.

A simplified guide to understanding the concept and benefits of data loss prevention for your organization.

It feels like sub-sea cable disruptions are becoming ever more common, with recent reports of major outages caused by severed cables in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the North Sea, and—most recently—off the coast of Africa.

Cybersecurity agencies from five different national governments put out a plea in December for developers to use memory-safe programming languages. Are you ready?

The rapidly evolving technology and digital transformation landscape has ushered in increased requirements for high-speed connectivity to accommodate high-bandwidth application and service demands. Numerous use cases, such as streaming media, internet gaming, complex data analytics, and real-time collaboration, require we go beyond today’s connectivity trends to define new ones.

While VPNs may protect you from some types of cyber attacks launched by hackers, they don’t protect you from all of them. For example, VPNs may protect you from Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks, remote hacking, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks and session hijacking, but VPNs will not protect you from hackers who steal encryption keys, or from account compromise, phishing attacks or illegitimate websites.

On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor in a popular package called XZ Utils was announced on the Openwall mailing list. This utility includes a library called liblzma which is used by SSHD, a critical part of the Internet infrastructure used for remote access. When loaded, the CVE-2024-3094 affects the authentication of SSHD potentially allowing intruders access regardless of the method.