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Despite all the talk of modernization and cloud migration, the multigenerational IT landscape is here to stay. Yet with the right road map and strategic partnerships in place, it is possible to streamline the transition and gain value from data wherever it resides. Global cloud adoption continues its rapid expansion: IDC forecasts total worldwide spending on public and private cloud services, hardware, and software to surpass $1.3 trillion by 2025. At the same time, however,…

The key goal of a data-centered architecture is data accessibility. Accessibility can impact future business innovation, improve the ability to generate metadata and new data sets, enable search and discovery of the data, and further empower data scientists to deploy said data for machine learning and AI. If captured data is brought to a specific location to serve a single purpose but then fails to flow to other areas where it might provide value—coming to…

The Port of Los Angeles has opened a new Cyber Resilience Center (CRC) that will detect and protect against cyber-threats that could potentially impact cargo flow. In addition to providing the port with an early warning system, the center will enable CRC stakeholders – such as tenants and cargo handlers – to quickly share threat indicators and better coordinate defensive responses. A $6.8m agreement for International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) to design, install, operate and…

Lawmakers in New Mexico from both sides of the aisle have introduced new legislation to defend the state against cyber-threats.  In the past six days, Republican senator Rebecca Dow and Democratic senator Michael Padilla have each filed a cybersecurity bill in a bid to ensure additional attack prevention measures are implemented in the country. Dow’s bill (HB122), which was filed to a House committee on January 21, is centered around increasing the cybersecurity of public schools. “The…

All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of January 17, 2022. We’ve also included the comments from a few folks here at Tripwire VERT. Root-Level RCE Vulnerability Patched by Cisco Bleeping Computer reported that Cisco had issued a fix for CVE-2022-20649. The bug enabled someone to remotely…

Cyber-criminals have attacked the federal government entity responsible for Canada’s diplomatic and global relations.  Global Affairs Canada was hit on Wednesday – one day before the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued a cyber-threat bulletin urging critical infrastructure operators to strengthen their defenses against known Russian-based cyber-threat activity. “The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security encourages the Canadian cybersecurity community – especially critical infrastructure network defenders – to bolster their awareness of and protection against Russian…