Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

For security teams on the front lines and those of us in the business of stopping cyberattacks and breaches, 2021 provided no rest for the weary. In the face of massive disruption brought about by the COVID-driven social, economic and technological shifts of 2020, adversaries refined their tradecraft to become even more sophisticated and brazen. The result was a series of high-profile attacks that rocked many organizations and, on their own, represented watershed moments in cybersecurity.

You power on your computer and open your inbox, ready for another day at work. But instead of some unread emails, you see a login screen with an all-too-familiar message: it’s time to update your password. And it can’t just be any password. It needs to be one you haven’t used before, and it must include a number… and a special character… and be 8 characters long…

Ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods and Kronos are just a few recent examples in the rise of cyber-physical attacks that disrupt lives of individuals and have the potential to cause physical harm. This concerning trend is capturing the attention of organizations worldwide, with Gartner predicting that 75% of CEOs will be personally liable for cyber-physical security incidents by 2024.

We’re excited to announce that our Snyk Business plan will now be available as a free trial. Many developers love Snyk products, but the true power of our platform is displayed when it’s used across an organization. No company wants to navigate a security incident, but ensuring that your entire SDLC is protected can be a challenge. The Snyk Business plan gives your organization access to empowering and easy-to-use tools to ensure nothing slips through the cracks.

In a recent webinar, SecurityScorecard hosted Justin Herring, Executive Deputy Superintendent, Cybersecurity Division of the New York Department of Financial Services (DFS), and Luke Dembosky, Partner and Co-Chair of the Data Strategy & Security practice at Debevoise & Plimpton, to discuss DFS’s top cybersecurity priorities this year, current enforcement and to examine trends, and the regulatory environment around cybersecurity in 2022.

One of the greatest challenges in cloud environments today is to ensure rapid development cycles while keeping up with security vulnerabilities. Sysdig and Snyk announced today a partnership to deliver integrated code to container runtime security that eliminates up to 95% of vulnerability alert noise, optimizes remediation, and protects runtime. Developers can be fast with security barriers removed, and yet without sacrificing security.

Ransomware continued to be the most significant cybersecurity threat facing critical infrastructure, healthcare, defense, and other industries, according to a report issued jointly on February 9 by law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies from the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

For the past 20 years, I’ve served as CISO for companies across different sectors. In this role, I have shouldered responsibility for protecting each organization from a wide swath of rapidly developing cybersecurity threats. I have also learned firsthand how much stress security leaders face day-to-day. Recent conversations with my peers have shown stress in cybersecurity is an industry-wide problem. The CISO role is one of the most stressful in any organization.

Kubernetes is an API-centric orchestration platform. Every request, from the cluster components to users interacting with the system, has to go through the API server. The API server is a component in the control plane, and acts as a gatekeeper for the operation requests originating from both inside and outside of the cluster.

Hosting the Olympics is always a source of national pride for any nation chosen to do so. Whether in winter or summer, the prestige of the world’s eyes being on an event that transcends political differences and has sport at the fore is a prize many countries and regions aspire to achieve. This all sounds fantastic and at one level is exactly what is happening at the 2022 Winter Olympics.