Security News

61% of cybersecurity teams are understaffed
2021-05-05 04:00

61 percent of respondents indicate that their cybersecurity teams are understaffed. Understaffed cybersecurity teams and attacks issues.

Red Hat OpenShift features help orgs reduce friction between development and operations teams
2021-05-04 01:00

Red Hat announced the general availability of OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines, new features of Red Hat OpenShift. These capabilities help organizations to further reduce friction between development and operations teams by streamlining application development and deployment across the hybrid cloud.

IT security teams challenges fueled by record-setting cyberattacks
2021-04-28 03:30

IT security teams faced unprecedented challenges last year fueled by dramatically expanded work-from-home programs, increased bring-your-own-device policy adoptions, and rising internal and third-party risks stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, CyberEdge Group reveals. It's no surprise that many IT security teams are shifting their security infrastructure investments from traditional, on-premises offerings to modern, cloud-based solutions.

Microsoft Teams worldwide outage impacts user logins, chats
2021-04-27 12:38

A worldwide Microsoft Teams outage is blocking users from logging into their accounts, and preventing those already logged in from sending and receiving messages. The Microsoft 365 Service health status page is currently directing customers to the Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account for more details regarding this widespread incident.

Varada helps security teams deliver faster time-to-insights on exabytes of data directly on the data lake
2021-04-23 01:00

Varada announced a new capability of its flagship platform designed to help cybersecurity teams deliver faster time-to-insights on exabytes of data directly on the data lake. As security teams seek powerful and swift threat detection tools to stay a step ahead of adversaries, Varada's technology offers a way to leverage 10 times more data and deliver results up to 100 times faster than other data lake-based analytics platforms.

IT security teams deal with unique challenges fueled by a remote workforce
2021-04-22 03:30

IT security teams faced unprecedented challenges last year fueled by dramatically expanded work-from-home programs, increased BYOD policy adoptions, and rising internal and third-party risks stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, CyberEdge Group reveals. It's no surprise that many IT security teams are shifting their security infrastructure investments from traditional, on-premises offerings to modern, cloud-based solutions.

Who knew Uncle Sam had strike teams for SolarWinds, Exchange flaws? Well, anyway, they are disbanded
2021-04-19 22:28

The US government's response groups for dealing with recent SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities have reached the end of the road. In a statement on Monday, US Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger said the two Unified Coordination Groups formed in January and March respectively will be disbanded. The SolarWinds incident, disclosed last December and subsequently attributed to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, involved the hacking of SolarWinds' Orion IT management platform and is believed to have compromised at least nine federal agencies and about 100 private sector organizations.

IT teams need to be coaches, not security guards, and shift to "self-service" for Microsoft 365
2021-04-19 17:14

ShareGate's first annual State of Microsoft 365: Migration, Modernization and Security report recommends a new approach to security in this time of remote work. Instead of trying to control all activity, security leaders should give users more freedom to manage Microsoft 365 features combined with clear data governance guidance.

InfluxData releases InfluxDB Notebooks to improve communication for software development teams
2021-04-16 01:00

InfluxData announced the general availability of InfluxDB Notebooks, a new capability that improves communication for software development teams, ultimately enhancing productivity within InfluxDB Cloud. InfluxDB Notebooks is the first of the company's new capabilities designed to make it easier for developers to collaborate around time series data within the platform.

Styra’s compliance packs for DAS ease collaboration between security and DevOps teams
2021-04-16 00:30

Styra announced new compliance packs for its Declarative Authorization Service, which include MITRE ATT&CK Matrix for enterprise covering cloud-based techniques, and CIS Kubernetes Benchmarks, to ease collaboration between security and DevOps teams. These two new turnkey compliance packs consist of best practices from the OPA community, and are the latest additions to the Styra compliance pack library, which includes PCI DSS 3.2, Admission Control Best Practices and Kubernetes Pod Security Policies.