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Kali Linux 2024.2 released with 18 new tools, Y2038 changes
2024-06-05 17:22

Kali Linux has released version 2024.2, the first version of 2024, with eighteen new tools and fixes for the Y2038 bug.As is typical for the year's first version, the Kali Team has released new visual elements, including wallpapers and updates to the boot menu and login display.

Cisco Live 2024: New Unified Observability Experience Packages Cisco & Splunk Insight Tools
2024-06-05 15:06

Cisco's acquisition of Splunk is playing out with a new full-stack observability product, the Unified Observability Experience, Cisco announced at the Cisco Live conference on June 5. As part of the same suite of conference announcements, Cisco also showed off the initial availability of a free trial version of Motific, a generative AI delivery platform made in concert with Mistral AI. Unified Observability Experience creates easy connections between AppDynamics and Splunk Platform.

20 free cybersecurity tools you might have missed
2024-06-04 04:30

Free, open-source cybersecurity tools have become indispensable to protecting individuals, organizations, and critical infrastructure from cyber threats. Cloud Console Cartographer: Open-source tool helps security teams transcribe log activity.

10 Best SIEM Tools for 2024
2024-05-29 10:15

IBM Security QRadar SIEM is especially suited to enterprises that are heavily invested in IBM tools and systems, as well as large enterprise deployments. Why I picked IBM Security QRadar SIEM. I picked IBM's QRadar SIEM as a smart choice for companies that have already heavily integrated IBM products and tools into their workflow.

8 Best Penetration Testing Tools and Software
2024-05-23 13:00

Penetration testing is a fundamental practice for assessing and strengthening the security posture of an organization's digital assets and is conducted with penetration testing tools. Astra is a penetration testing tool solution with several automated testing features that combine manual with automated penetration testing features for applications, networks, API and blockchains.

7 Best Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Tools for 2024
2024-05-14 15:00

What is the best CSPM tool for your business? Use our guide to review our picks for the best cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools.

Report: Organisations Have Endpoint Security Tools But Are Still Falling Short on the Basics
2024-05-13 19:02

Most IT and security teams would agree that ensuring endpoint security and network access security applications are running in compliance with security policies on managed PCs should be a basic task. The 2024 Cyber Resilience Risk Index report found that, if not supported by automated remediation technologies, top endpoint protection platforms and network access security applications are failing to maintain compliance with security policies 24% of the time across its sample of managed PCs. When combined with data showing significant delays in patching applications, Absolute Security argued organisations may be ill-equipped to make the landmark shift to AI PCs, which would require significant resourcing and direct attention away from these foundations of cyber security.

AI red-teaming tools helped X-Force break into a major tech manufacturer 'in 8 hours'
2024-05-13 14:00

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Security tools fail to translate risks for executives
2024-05-08 05:00

The results indicate that CISOs encounter challenges in aligning security teams with the C-suite, resulting in organizational gaps in understanding cyber risk. CISOs struggle to drive alignment between security teams and the C-suite, with 87% of CISOs saying application security is a blind spot at the CEO and board level.

LSA Whisperer: Open-source tools for interacting with authentication packages
2024-04-26 04:30

LSA Whisperer consists of open-source tools designed to interact with authentication packages through their unique messaging protocols. "Many authentication packages generally support their internal APIs, known as package calls, and relatively few are documented or used outside of Microsoft. I wanted to document as many of these calls as possible and implement a tool for interacting with them so we could identify which would provide value for red team assessments," Evan McBroom, Senior Software Engineer at SpecterOps, told Help Net Security.