Security News > 2021
To secure information, it is critical to have an endpoint security strategy that reliably encompasses mobile devices and embraces all their aspects. Inevitably, when EDR is used to protect all endpoints in an indistinct manner, it creates a security gap at the mobile level.
Indian Railways has revealed it has suffered "a number of incidents... regarding breaches in various IT applications" and appears to have blamed some of them on sloppy infosec practices among staff working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The organisation's document [PDF] announcing the cyber-transgressions says "a majority of these are application related," but doesn't explain what applications were affected nor the extent of the intrusions.
Mozilla this week announced improved user privacy in Firefox 86, with the introduction of a new feature aimed at preventing the tracking of users from site to site. Called Total Cookie Protection and built into Enhanced Tracking Protection Strict Mode, the new feature was designed to confine cookies to the websites that created them, and complements the Supercookie Protections that Mozilla introduced in Firefox 85 last month.
SecurityHQ launch their new mobile app, SecurityHQ Response. Which is why SecurityHQ is now part of the few MSSPs that offers an app for clients to handle and respond to incidents anytime, anywhere.
Entrust announced Adaptive Issuance Visitor Management as a Service, a cloud-based solution to enable a more modern, trusted approach to enterprise visitor management and security. From having multiple facilities across many countries to employing thousands of remote-first employees, traditional pen and paper visitor management is no longer a reliable process to ensure a secure and efficient visitor experience.
Ep, all-in-one, risk-based vulnerability management platform designed to scale as dynamic compute requirements change. Ep combines the company's products - Tenable.io Vulnerability Management, Tenable.io Web Application Scanning, Tenable.io Container Security and Tenable Lumin - into one platform, enabling customers to see all of their assets and vulnerabilities in a single dashboard alongside key threat, exploit and prioritization metrics.
PlusOne Solutions launched its open Application Programming Interface for Customers looking to create a unified method for managing their Service Network compliance data and compliance programs. The PlusOne Solutions API allows for the communication of multi-layered compliance information including Contractor, sub-contractor, and contractor employee levels to ensure a full view of the network's compliance and risk information.
Sequitur Labs announced new packages for the EmSPARK Security Suite that allows manufacturers to secure embedded designs for industrial, consumer, smart home and health care applications quickly and painlessly. The EmSPARK Security Suite Base package provides essential security defenses for IoT applications in a turnkey solution that is easy to install, integrate and manage.
Hillstone Networks announces a breakthrough for data center security with the Hillstone Networks X8180. Customers can secure their networks with even more performance and greater energy efficiency while achieving high reliability, scalability and adaptability in a small form factor.
ZEDEDA announced an integration with Microsoft Azure IoT services that provides customers with full lifecycle management capabilities, single-click bulk provisioning, risk-free updates and a built-in app marketplace. "With scale and security, they can instantly deploy all Azure IoT Edge services on large fleets of nodes with a single click and manage the full lifecycle of both the software and hardware."