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With VMware Cloud on AWS, customers are recognizing the benefit of having their public cloud integrate and work seamlessly with their on-premises infrastructure while utilizing their existing teams, skillsets, tools and processes. VMware Cloud on AWS enables enterprise IT and operations teams to continue to add value to their business on the AWS Cloud, while maximizing their VMware investments, without the need to buy new hardware. This offering provides a solution for customers to quickly…

The new Rapid Scale-Out policy for VMware Cloud on AWS is ideal for events like disaster recovery and bulk workload migration – enabling you to add up to 12 hosts in parallel at one time for lightning fast scalability. Rapid Scale-Out is just one option within the Elastic DRS feature in VMware Cloud on AWS. Elastic DRS (EDRS) is a very useful feature included with VMware Cloud on AWS for last couple of years. With…

Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) protect the safety of cardholder data by specifying both technical and operational requirements for all businesses that are involved with accepting or processing payments. All IT systems that process, store, or transmit cardholder data, including hardware and infrastructure layers, must undergo rigorous auditing to achieve PCI compliant status. Only after satisfying all PCI requirements, will an Attestation of Compliance (AOC) be given to the company. VMware Cloud…

AppSec expert says cybersecurity should be a part of the development process from the beginning. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Manish Gupta, founder and CEO of ShiftLeft, about cybersecurity in the development process. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. SEE: Social engineering: A cheat sheet for business professionals (free PDF) (TechRepublic) Must-read developer content Karen Roby: We’re driven by software, of course, everything we do and everything’s moving to the cloud and…

Vulnerabilities are high in new applications, expert says Length: 8:41 | Apr 5, 2021 Most vulnerabilities are never patched, leaving users susceptible to cyberattacks. Source link

Marketing psychology has influenced each of us; experts suggest it could help reduce the angst of cybersecurity training. Image: iStock/structuresxx Depending on your point of view, marketing is either fantastic or downright evil. What people can agree upon is how successful marketing is at convincing them to do something, even though it was the very last thing on their minds. There’s a reason why candy, soda and a myriad of useless trinkets are conveniently placed…

A septuagenarian pastor and retired educator living in Florida has been arrested for a second time on CSAM (child sexual abuse material) charges. Former Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University professor John Robert Griffin II was first arrested on January 6 on 30 felony charges of CSAM possession.  The Daytona Beach Police Department (DBPD) said 200 sexually explicit images of children were found on electronic devices belonging to Griffin after a search warrant was executed at his Muirfield…

If your customers and clientele don’t feel secure using your products and/or accessing your corporate websites, web portals, and web shops, they won’t sign up, share information, or otherwise engage with your brand. Developing a robust approach to customer identity and access management, aka CIAM, is essential for building this trust. But many CIOs and CISOs don’t understand CIAM and why it’s so important. In this first episode of our 5-episode podcast, The C-level Strategic…

Hackers made off with cryptocurrency worth $367k from a new decentralized finance (DeFi) aggregator within hours of its launch.  ForceDAO was launched on the morning of April 3. Its operators discovered that the platform was being exploited after receiving a tip from a ‘white hat’ hacker.  An investigation into the incident found that an “engineering oversight” had allowed cyber-criminals to steal 183 Ethereum (ETH).   The thefts were able to take place because of a flaw in the…

The personal information of half a billion Facebook users has been leaked online, according to experts at cyber-intelligence firm Hudson Rock. The data set, which includes phone numbers, locations, birthdates, Facebook IDs, full names, and email addresses, was discovered on a website used by hackers.  Hudson Rock CTO Alon Gal said the records appear to be a few years old and relate to users in 106 countries. Among the impacted users are over 32 million residing in the…