Cisco Announces its Intent to Acquire Cloud Security Software Company Lightspin
Cisco Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ET&I) intends to bolster its cloud-native portfolio with Lightspin focused on end-to-end security and observability.
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Cato Networks Recognised as Leader in Single-Vendor SASE Quadrant Analysis
Today, Cato Networks has been named the Leader in the Single-Vendor SASE Quadrant Analysis published in TechTarget. “We’re honoured to be identified as the Leader in single-vendor SASE market,” says Shlomo Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Cato Networks. “Cato introduced the first worldwide SASE platform in 2016, four years before Gartner defined the term. Since then, […]
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Exchange Online will soon start blocking emails from old, vulnerable on-prem servers
Slowly but surely, Microsoft aims to make it impossible for unsupported and/or unpatched on-prem Microsoft Exchange servers to use the company’s Exchange Online hosted cloud service to deliver email. Blocking potentially malicious emails from rea…
Weakness at the Network Edge: Mandiant Examines 2022’s Zero-Day Exploits
Enterprise IT, network and security product vulnerabilities were among those actively exploited in zero-day attacks last year, according to a recent Mandiant report. Mandiant tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities that were actively exploited in 2022. That’s fewer than the 81 zero-days exploited in 2021, but far more than those exploited in any previous year. Going forward, […]
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CISA Ships ‘Untitled Goose Tool’ to Hunt for Microsoft Azure Cloud Infections
The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency ships a new tool to help network defenders hunt for signs of compromise in Microsoft’s Azure and M365 cloud deployments.
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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network
Networks connect devices to each other so that users can access assets such as applications, data, or even other networks such as the internet. Network security protects and monitors the links and the communications within the network using a combination of hardware, software, and enforced policies. Networks and network security comes in a wide range […]
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Real Talk with CCSPs: An Interview with Panagiotis Soulos
“Cloud is the present, and the future. It affects everything, every day, both in business and our personal lives.” With these words Panagiotis Soulos summarizes his philosophy of why the CCSP credential is important to any cybersecurity professional. Panagiotis holds the position of the Global Information Security Manager in Global Information Security at Intrum. We recently had the opportunity to learn more about his career. Q: What is your current position at Intrum? A: I recently changed positions, moving from Information Security Officer, into leading a new unit that will be help Intrum to manage and control all aspects of…
BECs double in 2022, overtaking ransomware
A look at 4th quarter 2022, data suggests that new threat surfaces notwithstanding, low-code cybersecurity business email compromises including phishing, as well as MFA bombing are still the prevalent exploits favored by threat actors.
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How healthcare CISOs can automate cloud security controls
Cloud environments provide many benefits, primarily involving their ease of scalability and resilience. Those qualities exist because of automation and the easy and straightforward way to leverage that to enhance a cloud environment. While that ease th…
Microsoft Targets Critical Outlook Zero-Day Flaw
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for March 2023 includes patches for more than 70 vulnerabilities, including zero-day flaws in Outlook and in Windows SmartScreen. According to Crowdstrike researchers, 40 percent of the patched vulnerabilities are remote code execution flaws, down from 48 percent last month; 31 percent are elevation of privilege flaws, up from almost 16 percent […]
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