Minding the database: Interview with Phil Neray, IBM

Dan KaplanJune 1, 2011

A host of high-profile breaches have defined 2011, from HBGary to Epsilon to Sony to RSA to Lockheed Martin. The motives for each attack have been different, but they all share something in common: The perpetrators wanted access to the database, where the company's crown jewels lie. Phil Neray, vice president of data security strategy at IBM, discusses why organizations must implement protections at the database level to both catch the adversaries in action and trace their footsteps for the forensic investigation.

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Security pros must always remember that we are custodians of the digital realm and it’s our job to keep people safe.

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MITRE research and prototyping network breached via Ivanti zero-days

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Security pros say while the target was an unclassified network, the research it manages on emerging technologies could be of interest to adversaries.

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MITRE Corporation disclosed it was compromised by a nation-state attack leveraging two Ivanti Connect Secure vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887, in January, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

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