Cloud and Threat Report: Shadow IT in the Cloud

The number of cloud apps being used in the enterprise increased by 20% in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic caused a sudden and dramatic shift to remote work for knowledge workers worldwide. Individuals, teams, and organizations all turned to cloud apps to help address some of the new challenges of remote work. The increase in the number of cloud apps was led by an increase in consumer and collaboration apps, the fasting spreading of which included Discord, Zoom, Lumin PDF, and…Xbox LIVE?

Defense Department Cybersecurity: All Ahead on Zero Trust

With the Defense Department’s quick and successful pivot to a remote workforce last Spring via its Commercial Virtual Remote (CVR) environment, it proved that the future to fully operate from anywhere in the world is now. Gone are the days of thousands of civilian employees heading into the Pentagon or other installations everyday. However, with this new disparate workforce comes increased risks for network security. As my colleague Bill Wright expertly noted last Summer.

SecureAPlus Premium Add-Ons

Add-Ons for SecureAPlus Premium, it lets you beef up multi-PC management and Windows offline security with two new optional Add-Ons: Policy Add-On gives access to policy creation which defines how SecureAPlus is configured which can then be rolled out via the SecureAPlus Portal to individual or groups of PCs. It also gives you tools to maintain a central whitelist and implement a whitelist request approval system that can all be managed from the convenience of the SecureAPlus Portal.

SecureAPlus Antivirus for Android

Protect against mobile threats and beyond. SecureAPlus Antivirus for Android combines multiple antivirus engines in the cloud to protect your mobile device against the latest threats. SecureAPlus Premium users gain access to features that become extensions of their desktop security no matter where they are in the world. SecureAPlus Antivirus for Android is made by SecureAge Technology.

Quantifying CyberRisk- Solving the riddle

In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s there was a concept that was bandied about that was coined “Return on Security Investment” or ROSI. Borrowing from the common business term Return on Investment (ROI) where a return on a particular investment (capital investment, personnel, training etc.) could be quantified, the cybersecurity industry attempted to quantify a return on security investment.

Sysdig achieves Red Hat Vulnerability Scanner Certification

Image vulnerability scanning is a critical first line of defense for security with containers and Kubernetes. Today, Red Hat recognized Sysdig as a certified Red Hat security partner based on our work to standardize on Red Hat’s published security data with Sysdig Secure.

Dear CISO

As security practitioners, we all have things we want to be able to tell our CISO’s. We need to tell them we need more money, more headcount, we need to be able to tell them their baby (security program) is ugly. Everyone wants the ear of a CISO for the dollars they control. We just want their ear to help them understand what’s really going on in the industry and in their organization.

I Wish Someone Had Squished That Phish

It’s long since been established that it’s not if a breach will occur in your enterprise, it’s when. Are you prepared for that response? As Dave Kennedy, CEO of TrustedSec once asked a Brrcon audience, “If all you had was Sysmon, could you still do a successful IR?” Best practices are only best if you actually practice them. Along with Robert Wagner, Staff Security Specialist at Splunk, we’ll talk about ways to get your teams to their fighting weight when the bad guys sneak in through the basement.