August 2019 - Page 3 of 3 - Cyber Security Minute

Orgs Doing More App Security Testing but Fixing Fewer Vulns

Issued by: Dark Reading

Enterprise organizations are scanning more applications for security vulnerabilities than ever before, but, troublingly, they are remediating fewer of their discoveries because of the sheer volume. As it has for the past 13 years, WhiteHat Security recently analyzed data from the results of application security tests the company performed at customer locations last year. The…

Network Security

What Is Security Intelligence? Here’s What Your Business Leaders Want to Know

Issued by: Security Intelligence

Every so often, a new phrase or buzzword does the rounds for a bit before it goes off to join the other forgotten buzzwords in the sky, only to be recalled at corporate parties for a laugh, or to gauge how long someone has been in the trade. However, a select few remain firmly embedded…

Network Security

Moving away from spreadsheets: How to automate your third-party risk management process

Issued by: Help Net Security

Spreadsheets are dumb. Okay, it’s not that spreadsheets are dumb, or that the people who use them are dumb. That’s not at all what I’m saying. What’s dumb is using spreadsheets to manage third-party information security risk. If I’m going to call something dumb, I’d better have some logic to back it up. Good thing….

Network Security

Security flaw could turn load balancers into beachheads for cyber attacks

Issued by: Help Net Security

Cyber security provider F-Secure is advising organizations using F5 Networks’ BIG-IP load balancer, which is popular amongst governments, banks, and other large corporations, to address security issues in some common configurations of the product. Adversaries can exploit these insecurely configured load balancers to penetrate networks and perform a wide variety of attacks against organizations, or…