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Hacker wipes 13,000 devices after breaching classroom management platform
2024-08-06 14:15

A hacker has breached Mobile Guardian, a digital classroom management platform used worldwide, and remotely wiped data from at least 13,000 student's iPads and Chromebooks. [...]

AI expected to improve IT/OT network management
2024-08-05 03:00

The report provides a comprehensive look at the challenges and opportunities as organizations strive to build a secure and efficient industrial networking foundation. "Operational technology, and specifically the network supporting industrial operations, has become a key differentiator for organizations globally," said Vikas Butaney, SVP and GM, Cisco Networking - SD-WAN, Multicloud and Industrial IoT. "This research spotlights how IT and OT leaders recognize that strengthening their OT security posture is critical to drive business resiliency, improve efficiencies and prepare for the next wave of innovation with AI," Butaney continued.

Review: Action1 – Simple and powerful patch management
2024-07-30 04:10

Although endpoint anti-malware and other security controls are now standard at the operating system level, keeping all endpoint software up-to-date and secure remains an open issue for many organizations. Having worked with many enterprise security software, I noticed that established market players tend to accumulate substantial technical debt, which translates into bloated endpoints that spawn several processes and services bolted together as new functionalities get added, ultimately noticeably hitting endpoint performance and hampering employee productivity.

Why a strong patch management strategy is essential for reducing business risk
2024-07-29 04:00

Livne explains the role of effective patch management in minimizing business risk and maintaining strong cybersecurity. Can you speak to the importance of a good patch management strategy in reducing business risk?

Patch management still seemingly abysmal because no one wants the job
2024-07-25 07:27

Coupled with an exploding ecosystem of third-party apps, endpoint management tools that aren't really designed to handle patch management, bandwidth issues, and architectural challenges, IT teams have "An overwhelming amount of work to do," Hewitt told us. Endpoint management biz Adaptiva revealed in its 2023 state of patch handling report [PDF] that the average organization manages around 2,900 software applications, and 69 percent of IT teams believe it's impossible to get all of them patched on schedule.

Infisical: Open-source secret management platform
2024-07-24 04:00

Infisical is an open-source secret management platform developers use to centralize application configurations and secrets, such as API keys and database credentials, while also managing their...

How to design a third-party risk management framework
2024-07-12 04:30

An effective third-party risk management framework ensures that an organization is not derailed by vendor risks and vulnerabilities. Right after you categorize your third-party vendors based on their importance to your organization, next you must define the scope of your third-party risk management services and framework by identification of the type of third parties involved and the risk factors posed by them.

Develop Valuable Security and Risk Management Skills for Just $30 Through 7/21
2024-07-09 11:15

For either case, you can now develop information security skills with the help of The CISSP Security & Risk Management Training Bundle for just $29.97 through July 21. CISSP: Security & Risk Management covers the security concepts that provide the foundation for all of the other domains.

Portainer: Open-source Docker and Kubernetes management
2024-07-01 04:30

Portainer Community Edition is an open-source, lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications. "I created Portainer, initially for my own needs. Back in 2016 I was operating a Public Cloud provider in Asia, and wanted to offer a Container as a Service solution to market. At the time, that meant Docker. There were no Cloud Provider management UI's for Docker then, so I created Portainer to act as such. In a way, Portainer enabled a domestic market version of AWS ECS before ECS was popular. However, Portainer quickly took on a life of its own. I open-sourced the UI, which was"discovered" and blogged about, and it took off.

Enterprises increasingly turn to cloud and AI for database management
2024-06-27 03:00

Across various tasks, from predictive analytics to code generation, organizations in all sectors are exploring how AI can add value and increase efficiency. In this Help Net Security video, Ryan Booz, PostgreSQL Advocate at Redgate, discusses the key findings of Redgate's State of the Database Landscape Report.