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Three Ways to Secure Legacy Infrastructure

It is a well-known fact that legacy equipment shall continue to play a crucial role in the continuity and stability of critical infrastructure, especially in industrial control systems. A recent Center for Digital Government survey found that 70% of respondent agencies depend on legacy infrastructure for their operations.

The Sky Is Falling! No Wait, That's Just Our Data in the Cloud!

Back in the good old days, we used to have to order physical servers to run our applications. When servers became too expensive, we found efficiency in virtualization. Why have one box running one server when I could have 10 or more on a single box? Who would have thought I could simply push a button and have a server ready in minutes as opposed to weeks?

Weekly Cyber Security News 24/08/2018

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. We all know its great adding cool features to stuff, but what’s not great if its not thought through well enough so as to be a potential issue down the line. Looks like we have a bad idea which in retrospect is potentially out to get us…

Antivirus Evasion for Penetration Testing Engagements

During a penetration testing engagement, it’s quite common to have antivirus software applications installed in a client’s computer. This makes it quite challenging for the penetration tester to run common tools while giving the clients a perception that their systems are safe, but that’s not always the case. Antivirus software applications do help in protecting systems but there are still cases where these defenses can be bypassed.

Weekly Cyber Security News 17/08/2018

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Been a strange week, always is, but this time some really dumb self inflicted breaches and own goals that defy belief. What I will focus on this week is the future, the dark looming cloud that is brewing from badly thought-out out approaches to dealing with an age old problem.

ITIL, Problem Management and Tripwire Enterprise

I’ve written about ITIL and Tripwire Enterprise, offering a secure approach to managing your Change Management processes, but ITIL’s guidelines offer more than just recommendations around ensuring changes happen as expected. Problem management is another key area where Tripwire Enterprise can help you on your ITIL journey. ITIL sensibly focuses on root-cause analysis for problem management.

How Employee Monitoring Keeps Clinical Trial Data Secure

Clinical trials are a crucial step in developing new life sciences products such as drugs and medical devices. All tests – whether with large or small groups of people – require medical and personal information from patients upfront, and then proceed to collect data throughout the process. Ultimately, research companies are responsible for large sets of sensitive data and securing that information should be a top priority.

Improving Threat Detection through Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs)

Cybersecurity is a growing concern as breaches continue to increase in frequency and make headline news. Unfortunately, due to time and other constraints, many smaller businesses postpone the complicated task of risk management, only to eventually succumb to the devastating ramifications of a cyberattack. While the security solutions themselves appear complicated, the ability to mitigate risk is within reach of all.

Alert Fatigue Is a Big Cybersecurity Problem

Alarms and alerts surround us every day. From the moment our clocks wake us up in the morning, we rely on alarms for many things. But what happens when those alarms and alerts malfunction? What does it do to us and how does that affect our day to day life? Recall the Dallas Emergency Alert Malfunction. As it turns out, getting tired of these alarms can prove dangerous to cybersecurity.