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Mastercard announced the appointment of Richard Verma as Executive Vice President, Global Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs where he will oversee the company's public policy, regulatory affairs and litigation teams around the world, reporting to Tim Murphy, General Counsel, Mastercard. Verma brings over 25 years of international experience across senior levels of business, law, diplomacy, and the military.
For close to two decades, organizations have allowed privileged employees to work remotely by offering remote access solutions as a part of the daily work environment. One common mistake that security teams make when designing and updating their security and remote-access policy is not fully understanding the current contours of their network - or accounting for employees' changing locations and access habits.
Security, an Israel-based company that has been developing an authorization policy management platform, emerged from stealth mode on Wednesday with $6 million in seed funding. Security's platform, which the company expects to become generally available in the second or third quarter of 2021, is described as an authorization policy management platform powered by the open source authorization engine Open Policy Agent, and it aims to help developers address the challenges associated with implementing role-based access controls and attribute-based access controls in enterprise applications.
The Register has read it and can report that while it reveals that Coil seeks permission to share users' details with service providers, partners, and "Related entities". We cannot find a clause that resembles: "We reserve the right to expose your email address to countless other Coil users in the 'To:' field of an email."
Microsoft has added a new group policy in Windows 10 20H2 that allows you to disable a new feature that customizes the taskbar based on what accounts or devices you have. In the Windows 10 Insider Build 20161, Microsoft introduced a new feature called "Programmable Taskbar" that customizes the Windows 10 taskbar when logging into an account for the first time.
To be fair, Microsoft did revise and upgrade the default password policy and introduced additional, granular fine-tuning options over the years, but for some enterprise environments that's still not enough, so Specops Password Policy to the rescue! For the purpose of this review, the installation was done on a server containing all necessary services: Specops Sentinel - a password filter that is installed on all domain controllers, and Specops Password Policy admin tools.
One policy expert says cybersecurity measures should be an expected item that comes with every purchase, like the safety measures in your car. TechRepublic's Karen Roby talked with Fred Cate of Indiana University about cybersecurity and the importance of cybersecurity policy in government.
Professor and cybersecurity policy expert says it should be something that is already in place with each purchase or subscription.
The Iran-linked state-sponsored threat group known as Charming Kitten was observed targeting potential attendees of two major international conferences, Microsoft reports. Recently observed attacks, Microsoft says, targeted over 100 high-profile individuals, potential attendees of two upcoming global policy conferences, namely the Munich Security Conference and the Think 20 Summit, which is held in Saudi Arabia.