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State of Security Research Details Essential Strategies for the Year Ahead
This year, security teams face more challenges — old and new — and grapple with high rates of burnout. Cloud complexity, supply chain attacks and additional obstacles are pushing security teams to the limits, and inspiring new responses. New research points to key strategies that will help organizations weather the complex challenges and attacks ahead.
Why Security Strategies Should Matter to the CIO
In the face of this constant disruption, CIOs are supporting the addition, amendment, or strengthening of logistics workflows, supply chains, commercial and service delivery models, partnerships, and geographic footprints. In all of these programmes, CIOs often see cybersecurity as a hurdle—one more challenge to navigate in the path to a successful business outcome.
Automated Vulnerability Scan To Protect Your Business
A vulnerability scan is an automated process that identifies vulnerabilities (security holes) in any software, operating system, or network that bad actors can exploit. In essence, it’s an integral component of vulnerability management focused on protecting businesses from breaches and the exposure of sensitive data.
Digital Attack Surface - The Top 7 Vulnerabilities You Need to Know
In the past, the attack surface was defined and protected by the boundaries of the organization’s physical network (aka the LAN). Using physical security methods, firewalls, and careful monitoring, organizations kept their data, endpoints, and networks secure. The entire attack surface was internal, within a well-defined and fortified perimeter.
The Top 5 Security Breaches of 2021
Has your business experienced one of the Top 5 Security Breaches of 2021? Sadly, many have. As businesses become more reliant on technology, the risk of becoming a victim of a data breach only increases. Unfortunately, the United States exceeded the previous record of cyber attacks in a single year. In 2017, we saw a whopping 1,529 data breaches – compared to the 1,862 data breaches we saw last year.
How Blockchain Streamlines Traditional Bank Processes
How does blockchain help traditional banks streamline their processes? Fireblocks Head of APAC & Vice President, Product Strategy and Business Solutions, Stephen Richardson, explains. For large and complex organizations like banks, their legacy technology has many inefficiencies in the recognition and settlement of assets. But once you put an asset on the blockchain, you create a singular basis for identifying assets and a central point of visibility for the entire organization to manage how that asset interacts across multiple business lines.
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Protecting secrets throughout the SDLC with SpectralOps
For developers, secret and credential leakage is a problem as old as public-facing repositories. Unfortunately, in 2021 it is officially a significant risk. One that is easy to ignore until it is too late. In a rush to deliver, developers will often hard-code credentials in code or neglect to review code for exposed secrets. The results can be embarrassing, at best - but devastatingly costly in other cases.
DevSecOps Cloud Security Solutions Buyer's Guide
The cloud has come a long way from Eric Schmidt's "modern" coining of the phrase in 2006. Today, companies and institutions are reliant upon a cloud infrastructure to run their day-to-day operations. This reliance and growth have also transformed the threat landscape and your cybersecurity requirements along with it. Though cloud service providers are working ceaselessly to shore up vulnerabilities and bolster defenses, the responsibility for your cloud assets does not solely lie with them. Estimates predict that by 2025, 99% of cloud failures will be caused by the customer.
Five worthy reads: Cybercrime and its impact on the economy
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. In this edition, we’ll learn about how a country and global economy is impacted when a cybercrime happens, how every citizen is victimized, and what governments are doing to mitigate this rising issue.