Cybersecurity and online gaming: Don't be a victim

Theresa Lanowitz collaborated on this blog. The proliferation of technology and internet connectivity has made it possible for people to seek out most things online, and gaming and gambling are not exceptions. In addition to online video games, social media, music, and video streaming, there are also online casinos and gambling for real money. Well, for gambling in the USA there are state laws to mind, but in some states online gambling is permitted.

XSS Attack Examples and Mitigations

Cross-site scripting (XSS) is an attack that allows JavaScript from one site to run on another. XSS is interesting not due to the technical difficulty of the attack but rather because it exploits some of the core security mechanisms of web browsers and because of its sheer pervasiveness. Understanding XSS and its mitigations provides substantial insight into how the web works and how sites are safely (and unsafely) isolated from each other.

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.

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.

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.

Security Spotlight: Ryan Kovar

Splunk is home to some of the best security minds that this industry has to offer. Once a month we’ll take a deep dive and have a chat with one of those minds. First up, Distinguished Security Strategist and co-creator of the Boss Of The SOC, Ryan Kovar. With 20 years of experience in the security space, we’ll have a lot to chat about over the course of an hour.

How to prevent supply chain attacks with the Zero Trust Architecture

The SolarWinds supply chain attack has rocked the business world, stirring a whirlwind of supply chain security evaluations. The pernicious effects of the SolarWinds cyberattack (which is likely to take months to fully comprehend) reveals an uncomfortable truth causing stakeholders globally to reconsider their business model - vendors introduce a significant security risk to an organization.

How to Keep Data Safe When Offboarding Employees - Data Theft Prevention Tips | CurrentWare

Follow these 6 tips to protect sensitive data against theft when offboarding employees. Are you concerned about the damage a terminated employee could cause with access to your sensitive corporate information, account passwords, and other proprietary data? In this video you will learn how to keep data safe when offboarding employees.

3rd Party Security an Achilles Heel

It is common and intuitive to think that a security manager is responsible for the protection of their own team and organization. Spending the company’s resources on the security of another organization may sound unreasonable. However, recent events in the retail industry teach us otherwise. Today more than ever, as 3rd-party risk is gaining speed, executives are exposed to threats from unexpected directions and involving new weak points.

How to choose a Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tool

Whether you’re a developer or a security engineer, Software Composition Analysis—or SCA for short—is a term you will start to hear of more and more. If you haven’t already, that is. The reason for this is simple. Your company is increasingly relying on open source software and containers to develop its applications and by doing so is introducing risk in the form of security vulnerabilities and license violations.