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Singapore infosec boss warns China/West tech split will be bad for interoperability
2024-04-18 05:32

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Japanese government rejects Yahoo! infosec improvement plan
2024-04-17 05:44

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World's second-largest eyeglass lens-maker blinded by infosec incident
2024-04-05 01:45

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Infosec products of the month: March 2024
2024-04-01 02:45

The latest addition to GitGuardian's code security platform equips security and developer teams with a unified vulnerability remediation solution, capitalizing on cross-team collaboration, incident visibility, and context. Security teams can use Sentra Jagger to get insights and recommendations on specific security actions through an interactive, user-friendly interface.

Atos says Airbus flew off, no longer interested in infosec and big data biz
2024-03-19 12:30

Atos' share price sank as much as 20 percent this morning on confirmation that Airbus is no longer interested in buying the big data and security parts of the crumbling tech empire. Atos said at the time it had received two letters indicating interest in buying BDS, but only the aerospace corp had offered to snaffle the whole unit.

Infosec teams must be allowed to fail, argues Gartner
2024-03-18 07:29

In their keynote at the firm's Security & Risk Management Summit in Sydney, Australia, today, VP analyst Mixter and director analyst Xiu argued that no amount of effort can prevent infosec incidents, and the quality of organizations' response is a more appropriate measure of an infosec team's effectiveness than expecting they will never fail to fend off the never-ending torrent of attacks. "Adrenalin does not scale," Xiu told the event - a reference to the practice of infosec teams responding to incidents by attacking them without a rehearsed plan.

Infosec products of the month: February 2024
2024-02-29 03:45

Varonis introduced Varonis Managed Data Detection and Response, a managed service dedicated to stopping threats at the data level. Security teams can receive alerts if employees are uploading sensitive data, like customer PII, security credentials, and intellectual property.

Giant leak reveals Chinese infosec vendor I-Soon is one of Beijing's cyber-attackers for hire
2024-02-22 06:31

A cache of stolen document posted to GitHub appears to reveal how a Chinese infosec vendor named I-Soon offers rent-a-hacker services for Beijing. Analysis of the docs by infosec vendor SentinelOne characterizes I-Soon as "a company who competes for low-value hacking contracts from many government agencies."

Biden asks Coast Guard to create an infosec port in a stormy sea of cyber threats
2024-02-21 22:10

President Biden has empowered the US Coast Guard to get a tighter grip on cybersecurity at American ports - including authorizing yet another incident reporting rule. Port Captains, USCG officers responsible for laying down the law in US ports, can now declare "Security zones," inside of which they'll have broad authority to prevent "Access of persons, articles, or things, including any data, information, network, program, system, or other digital infrastructure, to vessels, or waterfront facilities."

Half of polled infosec pros say their degree was less than useful for real-world work
2024-02-07 20:31

About a quarter of those probed said their higher education was "Not at all useful" for their working life in cybersecurity; 12 percent said it was "Slightly useful;" and 14 percent described it as "Somewhat useful," adding up to 50 percent for the negatives. On the flip side, 29 percent said their education was "Extremely" useful, and 21 percent said "Very" useful.