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What Building Application Security Into Shadow IT Looks Like

Issued by: Dark Reading

Application security (AppSec) programs are difficult to use and filled with vulnerabilities. Overloaded staff face an inadequate budget. Communication with developers is challenging. These sayings are so true, so ubiquitous, that they’ve become tropes. This is why meeting a team of two who managed to resolve 70,000 security vulnerabilities in three months made me gasp….

Malware & Threats

How to Keep Your Enterprise Safe From Digital Supply Chain Attacks

Issued by: Dark Reading

The digital supply chain is under attack like never before. Listed among the top three security concerns for 2022 by Gartner, digital supply chain security is now top of mind for cybersecurity teams, CISOs, and the entire C-suite. For the first time, digital supply chain attacks are threatening business continuity for large-scale enterprises. Why the…

Network Security

How SMBs can bring their security testing on par with larger enterprises

Issued by: Help Net Security

What are the challenges of securing small and medium-sized enterprises vs. larger ones? And how can automated, continuous security testing help shrink the gap? When studying the differences between cyber security for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and larger enterprises, several components factor into how securing SMEs is different. Here’s a breakdown. Business hour…

Malware & Threats

Enterprises are blind to over half of malware sent to their employees

Issued by: Help Net Security

As the use of SSL grows to the point where it’s the standard protocol, cybercriminals are increasingly using encryption to conceal and launch attacks. This has become possible because SSL certificates, which used to be difficult to obtain, are now readily available at no charge. Zscaler released the 2019 Cloud Security Insights Threat Report –…

Software Security

ImageWare Launches Multi-modal Biometric Authentication for Enterprises

Issued by: Security Week

Today’s security consensus is that password-based authentication and access is insecure, and that some form of two- or multi-factor authentication is necessary. The simplest and easiest second factor is an SMS-based soft token, and that is the route already adopted by many organizations. However, NIST’s recently published concern over some implementations of SMS-based 2FA has…