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It’s April, designated National Supply Chain Integrity month by CISA, NCSC, ONCD and Department of Defense, to promote resources, tools, and information to help organizations and agencies secure their supply chains and build resilience. But what role does blockchain play in supply chain and how easy is it to implement? Blockchain technology has numerous potential applications in supply chain due to its ability to provide a secure, transparent, and tamper-proof ledger of transactions.

4/11/2023 - Gizmodo just dropped this eye-roll inducing news. The disgraced crypto exchange had no dedicated cybersecurity staff and "protected" users assets with minimal safeguards, according to new bankruptcy filings. Here are just two paragraphs of the whole story. The whole thing is unbelievable.

SOC 2 is a compliance standard for service organizations, developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), which specifies how organizations should manage customer data. SOC 2 is based on five overarching Trust Services Criteria (TSC): security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy. Specifically, the security criteria are broken down into nine sections called common criteria (CC).

External Attack Surface Management (EASM) and Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS) are two important tools in the arsenal of any organization’s cybersecurity strategy. However, there is a significant difference between the two approaches that should not be overlooked.

When I wrote my first applications in high school, coding was a lot more time-consuming. I didn’t have libraries I could shop through with ready-made bits of code to drop in to save myself time or bridge the gap between the pieces of code I could write to create something more complex. Instead, I had to write everything from scratch. If I wanted to include any kind of image, I would have to draw it with mathematical coordinates, which took a ton of time.

Dealing with the aftermath of ransomware attacks is like Russian roulette. Submitting the ransom might seem like it’s the sole option for recovering locked data. Ransomware also continues to evolve as a threat category within the past year, with old names like REvil rearing their heads and new players like Black Basta emerging in 2022.

Over the past few weeks, our UK team has been very excited about the expansion of our NewEdge infrastructure, specifically the addition of a new data centre in London. Knowing that this was the fourth data centre in the UK, I cornered our EMEA CISO Neil Thacker, and our new UK public sector lead Tim Parkins, to find out what all the fuss was about.