With so much data for small security teams to sift through, automation and machine learning can help IT teams react and respond faster, said Allie Mellen, a security and risk analyst with Forrester Research during an SC Media eSummit.
Encryption has reached near-full adoption by internal teams hoping to implement stronger security and privacy practices. Simultaneously, attackers are using the same mechanisms to hide their malicious activity from the defender’s line of sight. According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2021 Global Encryption Trends Study, 50% of organizations have an encryption plan consistently applied across their […]
For a successful implementation or expansion of security automation processes, businesses should create a specific project team and slowly build trust throughout one's organization, says Mastercard researcher Donnie Wendt.
For many enterprises, incident response is an exercise in chaos. Security teams scramble to figure out how a data breach happened and crash into brick walls as they try to collect information from different departments that are often siloed from everyone else. It doesn’t have to be that way. Advanced security teams have learned that […]
VirusTotal is seeking to curb the scourge of security alert fatigue by rolling out a new feature called Known Distributors, which allows developers to identify the provenance of submitted files back to their original company or product line.
Security starts before detection and response, but many organizations focus there first. Mature security teams understand the importance of identification and protection. Establishing good cyber hygiene and taking proactive measures to secure themselves against the ever-increasing threat landscape is a critical first step in a holistic security program. How should organizations build a holistic security […]
The Biden Administration’s Cyber Executive Order includes a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), an electronically readable format designed to provide an inventory of third-party components that make up software components. It is a critical and necessary first measure for protecting the software supply chain, but is it enough?One of the biggest challenges to supply chain transparency […]
The introduction of containers and micro-service architectures have changed the way we develop, deploy, and run our applications. Not only has this changed application development, but it’s also created some visibility challenges for application security. Move those applications to the cloud and we only amplify those challenges. How do we architect our cloud services and […]
