Last Week Microsoft Announced Microsoft Azure Sentinel, a cloud based Security Information and Event Management System (SIEM) and a Threat Hunting and Analysis Service called Microsoft Threat Experts. As Ray and I discussed on a recent video, available on Youtube, the best outcome of that announcement is if Google and Amazon make a similar announcement. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You would think that in light of all of the negative publicity that Facebook has had, it would reign in some of it’s badder practices, but maybe they are just daring Congress to regulate them. Facebook created a VPN product called Onavo Protect. The public claim was that it was designed to protect your traffic, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No big surprise here really, but still disappointing. Researchers at Def Con last week reported that they had found 47 vulnerabilities in the firmware and default apps of 25 Android phones. When they talk firmware, I don’t think they really mean firmware. Rather, they mean the operating system like Android Oreo or Nougat, although it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has a interesting strategy. Build prototypes of products. Show them or leak them. See if anyone cares. Kill them if it doesn’t work out – there are lots of examples. After many users are already using them. One other thing that they do is attempt to lock users into the Google ecosystem. Of course. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those companies that haven’t installed HTTPS certificates on their web site because, you know, why bother – Google has just upped the ante a bit. Starting in July, the Chrome browser will mark all websites that do not use HTTPS by default NOT SECURE. It used to be that HTTPS certificates were expensive and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is trying to keep up with the Jones (AKA Micosoft) and is building some security tools for its enterprise customers. Microsoft is way ahead in this area and if Google wants to compete in the enterprise space it needs to offer enterprise class tools. First of all, this only is available to G-Suite Enterprise […]
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