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How CISA Plans to Measure Trust in Open-Source Software

Issued by: DataBreach Today

The United States cyber defense agency is creating a new framework to answer a critical question in cybersecurity: How can the trustworthiness of open-source security projects be accurately measured and transparently communicated? The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is in the second phase of its open-source software security road map, according to a Monday blog…

Network Security

CyberSecure Announces Strategic Alliance

Issued by: Dark Reading

Cybersecure IPS and LockDown Inc. jointly announce that they have entered a strategic alliance to combine their unique offerings to address the rapidly increasing threat to critical infrastructures around the world. This partnership couples the CyberSecure IPS Manhole Protection System with Lockdown’s suite of security devices to strengthen the Defense in Depth (DiD) critical infrastructure…

Application Security

Government Agency Partners on New Tool for Election Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Arlo the auditing tool may play a key role in securing next year’s elections. The open source tool, created by VotingWorks in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and departments from a number of states, is intended to provide an easy way to perform the calculations needed for the audit: determine how…

Network Security

Year in Review: How Did the Cyberthreat Landscape Change in 2017?

Issued by: Security Intelligence

The cyberthreat landscape has evolved over time, and 2017 saw an increase in attacks over the 90 million intrusions recorded in 2016. While threats such as ransomware are not new, this year saw a major paradigm shift in which malicious actors aimed to disrupt services as much as they sought monetary gains. Similarly, attacks against…

Network Security

Getting Ahead of SD-WAN Security With the Zero Trust Model

Issued by: Security Intelligence

As businesses across the world become more geographically diverse and move toward an increasingly hybrid IT environment, legacy infrastructure is struggling to keep up. With more data flowing over enterprise networks from multiple sources, the demand for software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology is growing exponentially. A report from IDC predicted that this technology will…