Security News

Randori Arms Red Teams With New Automated Attack Platform
2020-02-12 15:26

Red teaming, especially continuous red teaming, is by far the most effective way of finding weaknesses in corporate infrastructures - but is phenomenally expensive and beyond the reach of all but the largest and most wealthy companies. Hazzard and Wolpoff chose to develop a red team platform for everyone rather than a red team service for the wealthier companies.

Organizations struggling to find skilled security staff, leaving 82% of security teams understaffed
2020-02-11 05:00

83% of IT security professionals feel more overworked going into 2020 than they were at the beginning of 2019, and 82% said their teams were understaffed, according to a Tripwire survey. The strain on cybersecurity teams is exacerbated by the inability to find experienced staff, and 85% acknowledged it has become more difficult over the past few years to hire skilled security professionals.

New Project Informs Security Teams of Phished Users
2020-01-31 13:44

A newly launched project wants to help inform IT security representatives and domain owners when their users fall victim to phishing. Ch, the project collects information on users who became victims of phishing by entering their credentials on a phishing website.

15 NFL teams’ Twitter hijacked in lead-up to the Super Bowl
2020-01-29 11:14

The cybercriminal group OurMine has struck again, claiming responsibility for hijacking and defacing the Twitter accounts of the US National Football League and 15 of its teams. OurMine has a long history of hijacking high profile accounts to turn them into billboards to advertise its so-called security "Services" and/or to vandalize pages, like it did to BuzzFeed back in the group's busy-beaver year of 2016.

Business units and IT teams can no longer function in silos
2020-01-20 05:00

The dispute between business and IT teams over the control of technology will lessen as both sides learn that joint participation is critical to the success of innovation in a digital workplace. "Business units and IT teams can no longer function in silos, as distant teams can cause chaos," said Keith Mann, senior research director at Gartner.

Cloudflare for Teams: Protecting corporations and employees, without sacrificing performance
2020-01-08 08:52

Cloudflare, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, announced that it has launched Cloudflare for Teams, a set of solutions that will secure corporations and their employees globally, without sacrificing performance. Cloudflare for Teams is centered around two core products: Cloudflare Access and Cloudflare Gateway.

BlackBerry teams up with AWS for new connected vehicle software platform
2020-01-07 03:45

BlackBerry announced it has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to demonstrate a connected vehicle software platform for in-vehicle applications that combines the safety and security of BlackBerry's QNX real-time operating system with AWS' Internet of Things Services in the cloud and in the car. With the AWS-powered BlackBerry platform, automotive OEMs can expedite their vision of continuously and quickly bringing innovative connected vehicle services to market, ranging from cockpit personalisation, vehicle acoustic conditioning, vehicle health monitoring, and advanced driver assistance systems features.

Security teams have a challenging and ever-changing role. Here's how a SOC can keep up
2019-12-27 13:00

Security teams should coordinate and operate by standard practices to ensure their efforts yield the maximum results. Learn some tips from an industry insider on how to make it happen.

How identity is addressed by enterprise IT security teams
2019-12-12 05:00

The majority of companies have experienced a five-fold increase in the number of workforce identities, which are being driven primarily by mobile and cloud technology. Encouragingly, one-hundred...

Developers worry about security, still half of teams lack an expert
2019-11-25 06:00

While nearly 75% of developers worry about the security of their applications and 85% rank security as very important in the coding and development process, nearly half of their teams lack a...