In this edition, four ISMG editors discuss important cybersecurity issues, including how virtual currency Monero is becoming the main alternative to Bitcoin as the crypto choice for criminals, the challenges involved in an identity-centric Zero Trust approach and how to influence change in culture.
Researchers have observed China-based, government-sponsored threat actors collecting intelligence by targeting Russian government officials with an updated variant of a remote access Trojan known as PlugX. And Microsoft shares a detailed report about Russian cyberattacks observed against Ukraine.
How does one decide the right approach to zero trust, and what are some important considerations to keep in mind? A panel of experts - Brett Winterford, Chirag Joshi and Jay Hira - share their in-depth views and discuss issues including how to take an identity-centric zero trust approach.
While major hacking incidents regularly grab headlines, insider threats - including malicious individuals, careless workers and third-party contractors - continue to pose significant and sometimes underestimated risk to healthcare sector entities, federal authorities warn.
As businesses move more of their operations to the cloud, it's essential to have a solid cloud security strategy in place. This whitepaper provides six strategies to keep your cloud-based application secure.
Lee Atchison is what one might call a Cloud Computing OG - after more than three decades building...
Whether you’re on the bleeding edge and fully cloud-native, or running a hybrid cloud environment, odds are you have some visibility gaps. And that’s a problem, because you can’t secure what you can’t see. Securing the cloud environment requires a thoughtful analytical approach to workload and infrastructure...
Private equity giant Thoma Bravo has agreed to purchase identity security powerhouse SailPoint for $6.9 billion in the sixth-biggest cybersecurity acquisition of all time. The deal will give SailPoint the flexibility needed to support its customers, expand its markets and accelerate innovation.
Sunder Krishnan, chief risk officer at Reliance Nippon Life Insurance Co., a joint venture of Reliance Capital and Nippon Life, discusses risk management approaches; using PAM, data encryption and other processes to safeguard customer data; and investing in behavioral systems to secure data.
New BeyondTrust CEO Janine Seebeck plans to help privileged users protect themselves by applying machine learning to detect patterns in the data generated across BeyondTrust's 20,000 customers. She starts as BeyondTrust's CEO July 1 and replaces Matt Dircks, who has led the company since 2014.
The German police say they have shuttered Russian darknet marketplace Hydra, which has been known to offer stolen credit and SIM cards, VPN access, and cryptocurrency laundering services. The police also have seized 543 bitcoins, worth about $25 million, associated with the marketplace.
Two teenage boys arrested and charged by the City of London Police in connection with its investigation into the Lapsus$ hacking group have been released on bail for an undisclosed sum. They are due to appear in Southwark Crown Court on April 29.
Keeping up with myriad data privacy and information security regulations has never been easy. Security mandates are complicated and constantly evolving. Adding to the complexity: organizations often face deadlines to meet compliance objectives – and fast.
Across industries and regions, compliance frameworks...
Gartner projects that in 2022, Endpoint Protection Platforms will take the #1 spot in information security software spending, reaching $15.9B and will continue increasing gap with the second largest segment throughout 2026 reaching $29.2B.1
Will this increase in spend result in a decrease in successful endpoint...
If an organization doesn’t know who is accessing what, how can they be trusted to make sure a bad actor isn’t gaining access to data, assets, or systems they shouldn’t?
Days after the recent Okta data breach, parts of a security report, allegedly created by Mandiant, were leaked, giving the breach timeline and how the threat group gained access to Okta's environment. Security experts, including an Okta customer, discuss the report, supply chain risks and redress.
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