Today’s networks are too complex for manual network management and updates. With most enterprises composed of tens of thousands of devices spanning multiple geographical locations, on-premises hardware, Virtual environment, and multiple clouds – it’s virtually impossible to push updates manually. Also – the sheer volume of vendors and coding languages can be overwhelming for a network operations engineer.

Despite the myriad pathways to initial access on our networks, phishing remains the single most popular technique for attackers. The open nature of email and our reliance on it for communication make it difficult for defenders to classify messages, so it is no surprise that suspicious email investigation is a top use case for automation. Today, we are releasing a new community playbook for Splunk SOAR (previously Splunk Phantom) to help enrich suspicious email events.

In honor of World Password Day, we’re doing our part to help keep your business secure by discussing the good, the bad, the ugly and the critical about passwords. Let’s face it: between all the logins we need for work and all the accounts we use in our personal lives, there are too many passwords to remember. So many of us do what seems natural—use the same password for multiple accounts.

Snyk’s mission is to empower developers and DevOps teams to secure their applications. As part of that security mission, Snyk offers a Free plan for Snyk Open Source, Snyk Container, and Snyk Infrastructure as Code, so all developers can code securely. Today, we’re excited to announce that Snyk Code is now available for free as well.

Best practices for securing an AWS environment have been well-documented and generally accepted, such as AWS’s guidance. However, organizations may still find it challenging on how to begin applying this guidance to their specific environments. In this blog series, we’ll analyze anonymized data from Netskope customers that include security settings of 650,000 entities from 1,143 AWS accounts across several hundred organizations.

Cloud computing is the vehicle with which modern enterprise organisations drive their digital transformation initiatives. Cloud adoption provides an opportunity for organisations to progress their digital transformation initiatives, scale rapidly and develop their digital service offerings with reduced time and cost overheads, resulting in more agile and efficient working practices and increased value to customers.