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What Is SCM (Security Configuration Management)?
The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic shifted the cybersecurity landscape. According to a PR Newswire release, the FBI tracked as many as 4,000 digital attack attempts a day during the pandemic. That’s 400% ...
Discrepancy In Security Beliefs vs. Security Practice
A new study shows a wide discrepancy between the level of security that executives believe their organization has implemented versus the actual amount of security implemented according to the security staff. The ...
More Details on the NIST SP800-53 Revision 5 Finalized Security and Privacy Framework
Now that SP800-53 Revision 5 has been released in its final form, those with systems in the federal government and those enterprises that work with the federal government may be wondering when ...
Safeguarding Our Health Information in a Global Pandemic
HHS Can Use Cloud Web Isolation to Stop Cybersecurity Threats without Impacting Productivity. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
Still Looking For RASP Resources? SANS Has A RASP Report
It turns out the SANS Institute created a report titled, "Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP), Investigation of the Effectiveness of a RASP Solution in Protecting Known Vulnerable Target Applications" in April of 2019, ...
New Research Reveals Companies Are Losing the Web Application Security War
A new report found that companies are struggling to keep up with the rapidly evolving threats, and that attacks on web applications have increased to become the single largest cause of data ...
Cyber Security Roundup for October 2020
A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, September 2020.COVID-19 wasn't the only virus seriously disrupting the start ...
NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 Released – Next Generation Security and Privacy Controls
Draft 5 of SP 800-53 closed its comment period back in May, and was just released as SP 800-53 Revision 5 on September 23, 2020 in its final form. The post NIST ...
NIST SP 800-53 Gets One Step Closer to Becoming a Standard
Draft 5 of SP 800-53 closed its comment period back in May, and SP 800-53B was released shortly afterwards in July of 2020, and opened its comment period, which just closed on ...
Why following NIST guidelines will strengthen your SIEM framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a federal, non-regulatory agency funded by the United States Department of Commerce. It aims to provide security guidelines, quality standards, and more for ...
