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MY TAKE: CASBs help companies meet ‘shared responsibility’ for complex, rising cloud risks
Cloud Access Security Brokers – aka “caz-bees” — have come a long way in a short time. CASBs, a term coined by tech industry consultancy Gartner, first cropped about seven years ago ...
SHARED INTEL: What it takes to preserve business continuity, recover quickly from a cyber disaster
To pay or not to pay? That’s the dilemma hundreds of organizations caught in the continuing surge of crippling ransomware attacks have faced. Related: How ransomware became such a scourge The FBI ...
NEW TECH: Human operatives maintain personas, prowl the Dark Net for intel to help companies
It seems like any discussion of cybersecurity these days invariably circles back to automation. Our growing fixation with leveraging artificial intelligence to extract profits from Big Data – for both constructive and ...
NEW TECH: Breakthrough ‘homomorphic-like’ encryption protects data in-use, without penalties
Homomorphic encryption has long been something of a Holy Grail in cryptography. Related: Post-quantum cryptography on the horizon For decades, some of our smartest mathematicians and computer scientists have struggled to derive ...
SHARED INTEL: Here’s one way to better leverage actionable intel from the profusion of threat feeds
Keeping track of badness on the Internet has become a thriving cottage industry unto itself. Related: ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’ is upon us There are dozens technology giants, cybersecurity vendors, government agencies and ...
MY TAKE: What everyone should know about the promise and pitfalls of the Internet of Things
The city of Portland, Ore. has set out to fully leverage the Internet of Things and emerge as a model “smart” city. Related: Coming soon – driverless cars Portland recently shelled out ...
NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR
One of the promising cybersecurity trends that I’ve been keeping an eye on is this: SOAR continues to steadily mature. Security orchestration, automation and response, or SOAR, is a fledgling security technology ...
NEW TECH: Baffin Bay Networks takes a ‘cloud-first’ approach to securing web applications
Hear about the smart toaster that got attacked three times within an hour after its IP address first appeared on the Internet? That experiment conducted by a reporter for The Atlantic crystalizes ...
MY TAKE: How advanced automation of threat intel sharing has quickened incident response
Threat intelligence sharing is such a simple concept that holds so much promise for stopping threat actors in their tracks. So why hasn’t it made more of an impact stopping network breaches? ...
MY TAKE: Six-figure GDPR privacy fines reinforce business case for advanced SIEM, UEBA tools
Europe came down hard this summer on British Airways and Marriott for failing to safeguard their customers’ personal data. The EU slammed the UK airline with a $230 million fine, and then ...
