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Two Concerning Security Trends Highlighted by Recent Breaches

Another day, another data breach has become a common refrain, in a world saturated with data breaches and other types of data exposures. But over the past few years, a subtle change in the nature of breaches has taken place. We documented some of this change in our analysis of the 100 largest breaches in the 21st century, highlighting that breaches were getting larger and more likely the result of misconfigurations.

Netskope and BeyondCorp Enterprise: The Power of Context

Do you know where your users are going on the Internet? Do you know what they’re doing on the public Internet? How are you protecting your enterprise and your users from their cloud activities? These simple questions belie complex problems that can keep security and compliance practitioners up at night. One of the related challenges that organizations face today is controlling access to corporate and private file sharing applications such as Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox.

How to Prevent the Next Log4j Style Zero-Day Vulnerability

Software testing is notoriously hard. Search Google for CVEs caused by basic CRLF (newline character) issues and you’ll see thousands of entries. Humanity has been able to put a man on the moon, but it hasn’t yet found a proper way to handle line endings in text files. It’s those subtle corner cases that have a strong tendency of being overlooked by programmers.

OWASP Bay Area Meetup Host Sponsored by JFrog - April 28

Followed by talks Talk #1 Demystifying the SBOM’s impact on Secure Software Deployment With the White House’s cybersecurity executive order in May 2021, has the Software Bill of Materials (aka SBOMs), graduated from being a “nice to have” to a “must-have” global standard when developing and deploying secure software from the cloud? In a nutshell, SBOMs provides visibility into which components make up a piece of software and detail how it was put together, so it's easy to determine if it contains security and compliance issues. In this talk, we’ll discuss • What exactly is an SBOM? • Securing your Software Supply Chain • Why SBOM must be a key element of your software development life cycle's (SDLC) security and compliance approach • The misconceptions that exist around SBOMs • Insights and best practices on SBOM creation and usage.

Zero Trust - Replacing Depth with Logic. Identity & Access Management eSummit 2022

In a hybrid work setup, workers should be able to authenticate themselves in the virtual environment securely. However, identity theft and technologies like deep fakes ensure that securing identities remains a major challenge. Organizations want to ensure their identities are safe and hack-proof. Join industry leading practitioners and experts to learn how to protect identities.

Is your penetration testing weak? Catch hackers at your backdoor with Sumo Logic

If you are an application developer or security analyst, you likely spend a lot of time thinking about your customers’ security. IT operations teams have found many ways to help secure login portals by implementing dual authentication and Single-Sign-On (SSO) portals. Many IT organizations have learned to use SSO and Two Factor Authentication (2FA) to help secure their codebase and employee data. This method is great, assuming that all users are compliant with 2FA.