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Cybersecurity after COVID-19: Securing orgs against the new threat landscape

Issued by: Help Net Security

Picture this: An email comes through, offering new COVID-19 workplace safety protocols, and an employee, worn down by the events of the day or feeling anxious about their safety, clicks through. In a matter of seconds, the attacker enters the network. Factor in a sea of newly remote workers and overloaded security teams, and it’s…

Vulnerabilities

How to drive business value through balanced development automation

Issued by: Help Net Security

Aligning security and delivery at a strategic level is one of the most complex challenges for executives. It starts with an understanding that risk-based thinking should not be perceived as an overhead or tax, but a value added component of creating a high-quality product or service. One solution is balanced development automation, which is about…

Network Security

A 2020 approach to security: People matter

Issued by: Help Net Security

The information security industry frequently utilizes the phrase “people, processes and technology” (PPT) to describe a holistic model of securing the business. But though this phrase is repeated ad nauseum, we seem to have forgotten one of those three primary pillars: people. In an effort to secure things technically, we prioritize the protection of our…

Vulnerabilities

3 tips to increase speed and minimize risk when making IT decisions

Issued by: Help Net Security

There is nothing like a crisis to create a sense of urgency and spawn actions. This is especially true for enterprise IT teams, who are tasked with new responsibilities and critical decisions. Speed matters in the heat of the moment and many leaders may not take the necessary steps to assess the risk of their…

Cloud Security

Why the rapid transition to cloud demands that DevOps shift left

Issued by: Help Net Security

To accommodate remote work policies amid COVID-19, companies have increasingly adopted the public cloud to support off-site business continuity. A MarketsandMarkets analysis found that due to the impact of the current crisis, the cloud market is expected to grow from $233 billion in 2019 to $295 billion by 2021. The transition to remote work by…

Software Security

Elasticsearch security: Understand your options and apply best practices

Issued by: Help Net Security

The ever-escalating popularity of Elasticsearch – the distributed open source search and log analytics engine that has become a staple in enterprise application developers’ tool belts – is well-warranted. Elasticsearch security lapses, however, have been a headline-grabbing thorn in the side of the technology. The distributed document store too often represents a security blind spot…

Vulnerabilities

Key cybersecurity industry challenges in the next five years

Issued by: Help Net Security

Pete Herzog, Managing Director at ISECOM, is so sure that artificial intelligence could be the biggest security problem to solve and the biggest answer to the privacy problem that he cofounded a company, Urvin.ai, with an eclectic group of coders and scientists to explore this. AI (and machine learning with it) is like a naive…

Vulnerabilities

5 cybersecurity considerations for getting back to work securely

Issued by: Help Net Security

As governments begin lifting emergency orders, company leaders are considering policies, technology and processes that will protect their workforces. Many of these factors rightly center around health and safety, but we must also acknowledge that all of us are still targets for cyberattacks. The new work-from-home world has poked countless holes in security perimeters, so…

Network Security

A look inside privacy enhancing technologies

Issued by: Help Net Security

There is a growing global recognition of the value of data and the importance of prioritizing data privacy and security as critical cornerstones of business operations. While many events and developments could be viewed as contributing to this trend, it would be difficult to argue that the increased discussion generated by today’s accelerating regulatory environment…

Network Security

Remote work in the time of COVID-19

Issued by: Help Net Security

The COVID-19 pandemic has, in one broad swipe, rewritten the rules regarding our workforce and jobs, with an almost instantaneous transition to remote work for those who were able to. While certain jobs require physical presence, a number of jobs fortunately can be done while working offsite. For those companies that went into remote work…