Wayne Bridgeman II, a Senior Manager on AT&T’s Network Cybersecurity team, offers a 5-point checklist for businesses in 2022 alongside tidbits of often overlooked tactics that can strengthen security.

This is a work-in-progress blog post. It will be updated when more information is available. For more detailed information about the vulnerability, see the How the Critical OpenSSL Vulnerability may affect Popular Container Images blog post. A critical vulnerability with an expected high or critical severity rate of CVSS score is about to be announced on November 1st on the OpenSSL project. There are still no details besides an announcement on the OpenSSL mailing list on October 25th.

Since March 2020, cloud adoption has accelerated at an unprecedented rate and across every industry. With the pandemic ushering in the work-from-home era, the ability of organizations to collaborate remotely has become paramount, placing a higher-than-ever premium on cloud technology.