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Security professionals are overconfident in their tools with 50% reporting that they have experienced a security breach because one or more of their security products was not working as expected, according to Keysight. "Enterprises are faced with a continuous stream of cyberattacks that threaten their businesses, and in many cases they attempt to deal with these by buying more security tools. Yet they don't know whether these products are delivering the protection they expect," said Scott Register, vice president, security solutions at Keysight's Network Applications & Security Group.
Finding what cloud services employees are using is half the battle-integrating Microsoft Cloud App Security and Defender Advanced Threat Protection lets you track, block, or audit cloud app usage. Microsoft Cloud App Security now includes a shadow IT discovery tool that integrates with Defender ATP to discover cloud app and service usage on any managed device.
Unlike PKI applications of the past, both PKI managers use a container-based, cloud-agnostic implementation that ensures fast and flexible on-premises, cloud and hybrid PKI deployments. DigiCert ONE is a holistic approach to modernizing PKI management and sets a new standard for fast and flexible PKI deployments.
The opportunity for tech pros lies in fully leveraging the benefits of APM across the entire application stack, so they can better communicate results to the organizations they serve. "To move beyond simply reactive troubleshooting, tech pros should consider modern APM tools as the keystone to connecting these previously siloed functions to gain comprehensive insight across the entire application stack."
Offensive Security have released Kali Linux 2020.1, which is available for immediate download. Kali Linux 2020.1 key new features. The popular open source project, which is heavily relied upon in the pentest community, is introducing several new features, including new packages and tools.
VMware on Tuesday advised customers using VMware Tools version 10 for Windows to update their installations to version 11 due to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. According to the virtualization giant, the repair operation in VMware Tools 10.x.y is affected by a race condition that allows an attacker who has access to the guest virtual machine to escalate their privileges.
Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published. Motherboard received the brochure as part of a FOIA request to the Irvine Police Department in California.
In early December, Tampa FL-based security services firm ReliaQuest, released a separate report discussing the effect of this tendency to purchase individual stand-alone tools to solve newly discovered issues. Problems include more tools than company capacity to productively use them, and a burden of maintenance forcing security teams to spend more time managing the tools than defending against threats.
Facebook, Samsung and Ring have unveiled new or improved privacy and security tools at the 2020 CES consumer electronics show taking place this week in Las Vegas. Facebook announced a revamped version of Privacy Checkup, a tool launched in 2014 in an effort to make it easier for users to manage the information they share on the social media network.
IBM on Wednesday announced the general availability of Cloud Pak for Security, a solution designed to help organizations hunt for threats by combining data from multiple tools and clouds. read more