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In this interview for Help Net Security, Dan Tucker, Senior VP at Booz Allen, and leader of the firm's cloud and data engineering solutions for citizen services, talks about government digital transformation efforts, security challenges, and offers tips for CISOs. The ability for government to rapidly share data, derive insights, and convert that into decision-making continues to improve, but the expansion of data volume and transfer methods also increases our nation's digital attack surface.
They have the world's largest community of ethical hackers working to stay ahead of cybercriminals, going on the offense, searching for bugs and vulnerabilities before attackers do. Two years ago, Forbes reported that more than 700,000 ethical hackers were already part of the HackerOneBounty program.
Junior cloud Digital Ocean has revealed that some of its clients' email addresses were exposed to attackers, thanks to an attack on email marketing service Mailchimp. Digital Ocean on Monday revealed that on August 8th its engineering team noticed that Mailchimp had stopped delivering emails such as confirmations, password resets, email-based alerts for product health, and "Dozens of other transactional emails".
Digitalization and rising consumer expectations are having a major impact on the working conditions of the technology teams sustaining the digital operations that drive the modern economy, and burnout and attrition are on the rise, according to PagerDuty. Technical employees are more likely to leave certain kinds of teams based on after-hours expectations and inconsistent workloads.
Cyber executives may not be sufficiently prioritizing threats from vulnerabilities within the value chain, beyond the immediate boundaries of their own organizations, according to Tata Consultancy Services. This Help Net Security video highlights how confident executives are about their cyber strategy.
Digital security giant Entrust has confirmed that it suffered a cyberattack where threat actors breached their network and stole data from internal systems.Entrust is a security firm focused on online trust and identity management, offering a wide range of services, including encrypted communications, secure digital payments, and ID issuance solutions.
The bad news keeps on rolling for British recruitment agency Morgan Hunt amid confirmation it suffered a digital burglary, with intruders making off with the personal data for some of the freelancers on its books. The info accessed on the database included contractors' names, contact details, identity documents, proof of address documents, National Insurance number, and date of birth.
As the world's legal entities rush to digitize their processes and transactions, confidence in digital authenticity is in short supply. Thankfully, a single, open and universal protocol that will enable legal entities everywhere to verify the authenticity of digital information and its sources is now emerging.
As the alternative investment industry tackles a rapidly changing threat landscape, increased regulation, and a continuous need to innovate, most firms are increasing their DX and security budgets and cite security as critically important to their DX initiatives, according to IDC. Senior leaders from 400 global alternative investment institutions in U.S., Canada, France, U.K., and Germany were surveyed to understand the current state of digital transformation and cybersecurity, identify key barriers and benefits of an aligned strategy, and explore the growing role of consulting services as strategic partners. Investment in cybersecurity and digital transformation is growing, but execution in-house is decreasing with outsourcing trends increasing.
The new head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate has announced the nation intends to build a "Cyber-Dome" - a national defense system to fend off digital attacks. Gaby Portnoy, director general of INCD, revealed plans for Cyber-Dome on Tuesday, delivering his first public speech since his appointment to the role in February.