Security News

Burnout and attrition impact tech teams sustaining modern digital systems
2022-08-02 03:00

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.

Two Key Ways Development Teams Can Increase Their Security Maturity
2022-08-02 02:21

Helping your development teams progress to achieve security maturity is possible, and ultimately beneficial. How can you help your development teams reach security maturity?

How an Intelligent Network Can Unburden IT Teams – Checklist
2022-07-25 00:00

Today's networks are expected to do more than deliver connectivity and bandwidth. To optimize performance and enable additional functionality, a network needs to be intelligent.

Lack of staff and resources drives smaller teams to outsource security
2022-07-22 08:00

Companies with small security teams continue to face a number of distinctive challenges that place these organizations at greater risk than larger enterprises, according to Cynet. This Help Net Security video highlights how a lack of staff, skills, and resources drives smaller teams to shift their approach to security.

Detectree: Open-source tool simplifies data analysis for blue teams, reduces alert fatigue
2022-07-22 03:30

Detectree, developed by WithSecure, is a detection visualization tool for cyber security defense teams. "Time is always working against incident responders. And looking through rows of text data and making connections between them and the suspicious activity under investigation is time spent not remediating the problem, which is a real waste when you're under pressure to stop an attack."

Microsoft Teams outage also takes down Microsoft 365 services
2022-07-21 10:08

What initially started like a minor Microsoft Teams outage has also taken down multiple Microsoft 365 services with Teams integration, including Exchange Online, Windows 365, and Office Online."We've received reports of users being unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features," the company revealed on its official Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account more than 8 hours ago.

Outsourcing security is the only solution for many smaller teams
2022-07-15 03:30

Companies with small security teams continue to face a number of distinctive challenges that place these organizations at greater risk than larger enterprises, according to Cynet. The Cynet survey analyzed responses from 200 CISOs at SMEs with five or fewer security staff members and cybersecurity budgets of $1 million or less.

Teams that shift security left and focus on attackability ship more secure code
2022-06-29 03:00

ShiftLeft released its second annual AppSec Progress Report documenting critical trends in application security and how organizations are shifting security left to deal with the ever-rising volume of attacks and disclosed vulnerabilities. By identifying and prioritizing OSS vulns that are actually attackable, AppSec teams and developers fix what matters, ship code faster and actually improve security with fewer, better fixes.

Modern IT Security Teams’ Inevitable Need for Advanced Vulnerability Management
2022-06-21 15:19

In the traditional vulnerability management process, the definition of a vulnerability is straightforward, "A CVE or a Software Vulnerability." CVEs are important to be managed; however, it is not sufficient to deal with the complex attack surface. Advanced Vulnerability Management provides a broader approach to vulnerabilities and addresses different security risks in the IT vulnerability landscape.

Microsoft 365 outage affects Microsoft Teams and Exchange Online
2022-06-21 12:08

An ongoing outage affects multiple Microsoft 365 services, with customers worldwide reporting delays, sign-in failures, and issues accessing their accounts. The affected services include the Exchange Online hosted email platform for businesses and the Microsoft Teams communication platform, as well as SharePoint Online, the Graph API, and Universal Print.