Recently, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team has discovered a supply chain attack executed by North Korean attackers. The prime victim of this attack was CyberLink, a multimedia software company headquartered in Taiwan. This strategic infiltration in the CyberLink infrastructure impacted globally present customers, risking data integrity and confidentiality.
Whether it’s an application or an operating system, every software needs an update to optimize performance, align with trends, and fulfill dynamic user requirements. The same is the case with the Windows 10/11 operating system. Microsoft, the developer of Windows OS, releases several updates for its product. In this blog, you will get to know about each one of them thoroughly. So, let’s get started by understanding the process behind it.
In today’s digital era, billions of online data and information are processed on the web. Individuals, businesses and organizations actively rely on the web network. With such huge reliance on the digital network, it is evident that malicious code poses a high risk to the systems and information processed. There are many types of malicious code, trojans and viruses that affect the networking system across the globe. Did you know?
The software supply chain today runs differently than it did just five years ago. The number of available tools, languages, and packages used have exploded. Further, the growing mix of OSS packages puts organizations at risk of outdated software, untracked dependencies, and non-compliant licenses. To add to the chaos, teams are now increasingly distributed and greater in number. All of this dramatically increases the number of inputs within the software supply chain.
Keeper Connection Manager (KCM) provides teams with instant remote access capabilities via a secure session, directly from a web browser. Gartner identifies several core Privileged Access Management (PAM) capabilities including monitoring and auditing, as well as privilege elevation and delegation. KCM provides Privileged Account Session Management (PASM) with support for RDP and SSH desktop protocols, database connections and session recording.
With the proliferation of CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), we have witnessed a remarkable surge in associated risks over the past five years. 2022 was a record-breaking year with 25,096 new CVEs found, the most discovered CVEs ever. Unfortunately, 2023 is on track to beat that record.
Organizations rely on Keeper Security to store more than just passwords, passkeys and other credentials. Keeper’s Secure File Storage solution enables users to securely store and share files, photos, documents and more. From the Keeper Admin Console, administrators can configure the Account Transfer Policy which enable the contents of one user’s vault to be transferred to another user’s vault in the case of employee decommissioning or termination.
At our recent Energy and NERC Compliance Working Group, we took some time to share more about Fortra, the cybersecurity company that Tripwire is a part of. In case you missed it, Fortra is a rebranding of HelpSystems, an already established and trusted company that has acquired a few valuable cybersecurity companies along the way. One such company, Tripwire, is already a familiar name in the energy sector.
