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SANS Institute Survey Surfaces State of Cybersecurity Defenses
A SANS Institute survey found most orgs felt they had the right policies, processes and controls defined, but only 67% had metrics to prove it ...
Mimecast Acquires Elevate Security to Personalize Controls
Mimecast has acquired Elevate Security to make it simpler to apply cybersecurity controls based on actual end-user behavior ...
Darktrace Extends AI Reach to Secure AWS Clouds
Darktrace's cloud security platform leverages AI to detect known trusted deployment patterns and automatically apply missing controls ...
To Governance and Beyond: Cybersecurity as a Journey
How often have you heard someone say “Cybersecurity is complicated!”? If you’re a practitioner in the cybersecurity industry you’ll have heard these words often, probably along with “…and it’s really boring too!” ...
Mr and Mrs CISO: Security in the Age of the Lockdown
With so many of us frantically learning to juggle our roles as parents, workers and most recently teachers; is it just my wife and I who feel it necessary to monitor the ...
Tornados, Necessity, and the Evolution of Mitigating Controls
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a tornado (also called a twister, whirlwind, or cyclone) is a violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm and comes ...
Container Security Part 2 – Benchmarks to the Rescue
Containers are like BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). They are infiltrating our ranks, and InfoSec professionals’ gut reaction is to hesitate in including them in their environments. But instead of dismissing containers ...
The MITRE ATT&CK Framework: What You Need to Know
The MITRE ATT&CK Framework has gained a lot of popularity in the security industry over the past year. I have spent a lot of time researching the hundreds of techniques, writing content ...
Blocks for Flash and others coming to Office 365
If you make use of Flash or Silverlight in your day-to-day activities, you may need to have a word with IT. For everyone else, your Office 365 experience is about to become ...
Understanding the Primary Threats and Security Concerns to Container Environments
Regular readers of The State of Security should now have a general understanding of why organizations need security for their containers. But they still might be a bit fuzzy on the specifics ...
