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Cloud Compliance Best Practices: A Quick Overview

Cloud compliance is more important than ever, especially as businesses and organizations continue to engage in remote and digital work practices due to COVID-19. Even before the pandemic, more and more companies were migrating to the cloud. But what exactly is cloud compliance, and what are some best practices you should keep in mind if you’re...
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The Next Disruptive ICS Attack: 3 Likely Sources for Major Disruptions

Faced with rows of empty gas pumps, many Americans on the East Coast may be wondering why this happened, whether it will happen again, or if there is anything we can do to avoid future catastrophe. The unpleasant truth of the matter is that this will certainly not be the last time society is disrupted due to attackers targeting critical industrial...
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Ghidra 101: Loading Windows Symbols (PDB files) in Ghidra 10.x

In this blog series, I will be putting the spotlight on useful Ghidra features you may have missed. Each post will look at a different feature and show how it helps you save time and be more effective in your reverse engineering workflows. Ghidra is an incredibly powerful tool, but much of this power comes from knowing how to use it effectively. In...
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Protecting People, Across Professional and Personal Life

Jihana Barrett, CEO of Cybrsuite explains the security needs from not just from an enterprise perspective but for day-to-day life. She also tells us about how her organization, Tech Sorority, provides valuable professional support and guidance for women in tech. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5JKIveh41lNDbgan07d1BG?si=mVV1OtHpScydCqLJWqp4aQ&dl...
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Everything You Should Know About the HIPAA Enforcement Rule

With the regular and much needed update to critical standards such as HIPAA, auditors and compliance experts need to be continuously on their toes to review and acquaint themselves with these new developments. One of the latest such updates is the Health Information Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) Enforcement rule, which has caused quite a...
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British man arrested in connection with Twitter mega-hack that posted cryptocurrency scam from celebrity accounts

Police in Spain have arrested a British man in connection with what many consider the worst hack in Twitter's history. In July 2020, the Twitter accounts of public figures and well-known organisations were compromised, allowing malicious hackers to post tweets to millions of unsuspecting followers. Compromised accounts included those of then...
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A Cure for a Disheartened Cybersecurity Professional

Data breaches and ransomware attacks aren’t just still occurring. They’re also becoming more frequent. According to ZDNet, the number of ransomware attacks detected and blocked by one security firm grew 715% year-over-year in 2020 alone. Another security company calculated the total number of ransomware attacks for the year to be around 65,000,...
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IT/OT Convergence or IT/OT Integration?

IT/OT convergence is an oft-repeated term, and maybe it's the wrong term. From a technology standpoint, IT/OT convergence has been occurring since at least the 1990s when HMI/Operator Stations began running on Windows and when Ethernet began displacing deterministic custom LAN protocols in the OT realm. This technology convergence has continued...
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What is a SIEM, And Why Should You Have One?

SIEM (pronounced like “sim” from “simulation”), which stands for Security Information and Event Management, was conceived of as primarily a log aggregation device. However, a SIEM’s primary capabilities are to provide threat detection, better enable incident investigation, and speed up your incident response time, while also giving you a unified,...
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Top 5 NCSC Cloud Security Principles for Compliance

There are many important factors to consider when choosing a cloud provider for your cloud use cases. For organizations in heavily regulated industries, compliance with relevant regulations is one of the most important things to think about. Whether you’re planning for a single cloud workload or a hybrid multi-cloud setup, maintaining compliance for...
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From a Submarine to Cybersecurity: Tripwire Expands in Continental Europe

In the last few years, Tripwire has increased its portfolio to include industries that were previously overlooked in the cybersecurity space. Industrial organizations are the newest targets for some of the most malicious instances of cybercrime in recent memory. Fortunately, we have a team of sales engineers who have unique experiences in this area....
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Spot the Ball & Security Detection Games

When I was younger, and printed newspapers were a more common household purchase, I remember fondly watching my mother play a game called "Spot the Ball." For those of you not familiar with this, it consisted of a photograph of a recent football (soccer) match with the ball removed from the image, and the goal was to place a cross or series of...
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What are Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) Best Practices?

In my previous post, I disclosed that SonicWall had quietly released vulnerability fixes over the course of several days before vulnerability advisories were published for CVE-2020-5135. Rather than properly fixing CVE-2020-5135, SonicWall’s fix introduced a new vulnerability in the same code. SonicWall was aware of the new vulnerability but...
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VERT Threat Alert: July 2021 Patch Tuesday Analysis

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s July 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-954 on Wednesday, July 14th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-34527 The vulnerability dubbed PrintNightmare was patched prior to the Tuesday patch drop, but it is still worth including...
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Protecting Your Business Against Malware in the Cloud

There are multitudes of advantages that the cloud has to offer to companies. These include making the task of security management more accessible. However, there are still many gray areas associated with the cloud and its implications for an organization's overall security. With the widespread implementation of cloud-based computing within...