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  Sometimes, being a woman brings in a more human touch when navigating through challenging security issues. This sensitivity to customer concerns is exactly what has helped Agnes Ng achieve success as a female entrepreneur in the Singapore payment industry. In this edition of our podcast, Agnes explains that despite a lack of women taking technology courses as part of their education in Singapore, she believes that more doors will be opened to women in…

2021 list shows how far application security has come and how much work is left to do. OWASP updated its list of the top 10 software security risks for 2021. This chart illustrates the changes from the 2017 version of the list.  Image: OWASP Security expert and Veracode CTO Chris Wysopal identified broken access control as a security risk in 1996. OWASP just pushed that software security problem to the first spot in the 2021…

You can’t automate every business process. While I love automation and promote the concept, I know its limitations. This viewpoint needs to be recognized and observed as more security officials implement automation within their organizations. I’d estimate that for most enterprises, the first 80 percent of migrating and integrating processes to automation is easy to do. The last 20 percent is hard to accomplish. This breakdown helps you set realistic expectations about automation. I enjoy…

The skills gap continues to challenge organizations’ ability to fulfill their evolving cybersecurity requirements. Tripwire confirmed this back in 2020 when it partnered with Dimensional Research to survey 342 security professionals. Indeed, 83% of respondents told Tripwire that they felt more overworked going into 2020 than they did a year earlier. Approximately the same percentage said that their teams were understaffed and that it had become more difficult over the years to hire skilled security…

By Ranjan Goel, Vice President, Product Management, LogicMonitor IT teams are under immense pressure to work faster than ever and deliver better results—at less cost. And they’re struggling to do it all as their organizations take in rapidly soaring volumes of data that must be captured, analyzed and deployed to improve business outcomes. To meet the challenge, many IT teams are turning to Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations, or AIOps, which uses big data and…

A ransomware gang called Vice Society claims it grabbed confidential data such as patient benefits, financial documents and lab results. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto Another health care provider has apparently been the victim of a ransomware attack that exposed private patient information and other sensitive data. A ransomware group known as Vice Society has claimed responsibility for an August attack against United Health Centers that allegedly impacted all of its locations. The incident reportedly led to…