Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

What’s the trick to staying competitive in 2022? The ability to quickly adjust your business models and processes. You need only rewind to 2020 to see why. A worldwide pandemic. The need to create new business models, innovate new business processes, establish new means of interacting with customers… with little warning and small budgets. And all this just to stay afloat. For many of the businesses that succeeded, low-code development solutions were part of their success.

As a major financial hub in Asia and globally, Singapore is very aware of the challenges facing the financial industry, especially the accelerated digital transformation that stemmed from the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the sector’s increased exposure to cloud technology, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has released a guideline to address cybersecurity risks associated with the adoption of public clouds.

Aaron McCray, Ignyte’s Chief Operating Officer, is giving a brief overview of the changes to CMMC 2.0, and more specifically its Practice levels vs Maturity levels in the video below. Aaron is a commercial risk management leader by trade and a Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserves.

For the next interview in our series speaking to technology and IT leaders around the world, we’ve welcomed Co-chair of Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Privacy at Clark Hill, Jeffrey R. Wells to share his views on the state of cybersecurity today.

As a thorn in the side of marketing teams of all sizes, awareness of ad fraud has grown in recent years due to the sheer amount of money it can cost advertisers. In one famous case, Uber discovered fraudulent app installs attributed to its ads had cost the company $100 million. But it’s not just overtly malicious activity like ad fraud that marketing budget-setters need to be concerned about. Marketers must be aware of the potential damage bots of all kinds can do, intentionally or otherwise.

Nowadays, malware used to have several stages before it fully compromised the targeted host or machine. The very well-known initial stager is the “phishing email” that contains a malicious macro code or malicious URL link that will download either the actual loader or the next stager to download the actual payload.

Jazzer, our fuzzer for the JVM, is already being used with several JVM languages like Java and Kotlin. Recently, a member of the community asked us whether Jazzer can also fuzz Clojure code. The answer is yes, but it wasn't obvious how to set things up. So we've built a small helper library, jazzer-clj, which contains everything you need to get started with Jazzer for Clojure. There's also an example project to demonstrate the setup.