In light of the most recent Chinese attack on Azure, several people are speaking out. Amit Yoran, chairman of security firm Tenable, former president of RSA and former Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division director, says this in a LinkedIn post: Cloud providers have long espoused the shared responsibility model. That model is irretrievably broken […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since it seems that fully remote work and hybrid work are not going away anytime soon, we need to make sure that remote workers are secure. It is not going away because the best employees will find another job rather than be forced to come into the office. Forester Research says 68% of remote workers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Zero Trust is a buzzword these days. People say that it is a key tool in the security practitioner’s arsenal, but what is it anyway. Here is what the core elements are, according to NIST’s zero trust framework. That means those “software functions” in the cloud. Each of them. Each of them is a resource. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Law firms getting breached is, unfortunately, no longer big news. Law firms Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Loeb & Loeb and Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher all reported breaches to the California attorney general in July. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner also reported a breach recently. All of these are very large firms. Imagine […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While legislators in a variety of countries are trying very hard to ban encryption, vulnerabilities in existing encryption implementations are surfacing. While none of the proposed encryption bans are laws yet in the U.S., it doesn’t mean that people aren’t trying. More importantly, companies have for years thought that security by obscurity is a good […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well That is a Bit of an Oops A Google employee uploaded a list of 5,600 Virus Total customer administrators to Virus Total itself, making it visible to anyone. Among the users were admins from the NSA, Pentagon, FBI. UK Ministry of Defense and ministries in Germany, Japan, Qatar, Turkey, Frances and a dozen other […]
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