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Threat modeling is increasing in importance as a way to plan security in advance. Instead of merely reacting to threats and incidents, an organization can identify and evaluate its security posture, relevant threats, and gaps in defenses that may allow attacks to succeed. Threat modeling has a two-way relationship with incident response: When an attack happens, incident responders can benefit tremendously from a threat model that shows them which attack vectors are likely to impact…

By Gadi Naor, CTO and Co-Founder of Alcide Companies may be feeling pressure to modernize their legacy, monolithic applications for many reasons: some may wish to operate on a larger scale or to increase innovation velocity by enabling teams to work in parallel. Some companies will build new applications from the ground up, and others will take an incremental approach to modernization by breaking up their monolithic applications and creating modernized blocks one piece at…

By Randy Reiter CEO of Don’t Be Breached July 2021 has Been A Busy Month in Cyber Security The Associated Press published on Tuesday, July 13, 2021 that on September 1, 2021 a new law in China requires all Chinese citizens finding a Zero-Day Vulnerability to provide within 48 hours the details to the Chinese government. A Chinese citizen must NOT give or sell the information to third parties outside of China (apart from the…

Mitigating the risks of cyber threats through cyber intelligence and frontier technologies By Ritesh Kumar, Chairman & CEO, CYFIRMA Smart cities bring about an abundance of benefits for a nation – a more liveable space for citizens, a thriving business environment, and greater economic growth. It is therefore no surprise that world leaders and nations are focused on developing critical infrastructure and rolling out technologies to build up their own smart cities. However, with the…

By Amr Alashaal, Regional Vice President – Middle East at A10 Networks Cybercriminals had a busy year in 2020, with rapidly increasing numbers of distributed denial of service (DDoS) weapons, widespread botnet activity, and some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded. As COVID-19 drove an urgent shift online for everything from education and healthcare, to consumer shopping, to office work, hackers had more targets available than ever—many of them under protected due to the…

Zero Trust and Enforcing the Principle of Least Privilege Have Become Crucially Important. By Garret Grajek, CEO, YouAttest In recent news, we have seen several high-profile attacks on major institutions in the United States and abroad. In early May of this year, the Colonial Pipeline in the United States was attacked and late last month it was reported that a North Korean hacking group, Kimsuky, breached the network of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute…

T-Mobile, the popular US mobile phone service provider, recently confirmed a data breach affecting 7.8 million current customers and 40 million records from past or prospective customers. The stolen data included customer names, dates of birth, social security numbers, and driver’s license information. Fortunately, subscriber credit card information and other financial details were not affected in the breach.   Even though financial data was spared in the breach, the types of information stolen, along with the vast volume of affected subscribers mean that all T-Mobile subscribers should take immediate action to secure their…

T-Mobile, the popular US mobile phone service provider, recently confirmed a data breach affecting 7.8 million current customers and 40 million records from past or prospective customers. The stolen data included customer names, dates of birth, social security numbers, and driver’s license information. Fortunately, subscriber credit card information and other financial details were not affected in the breach.   Even though financial data was spared in the breach, the types of information stolen, along with the vast volume of affected subscribers mean that all T-Mobile subscribers should take immediate action to secure their…

High school students who raised the alarm after discovering a severe data breach involving teachers’ personal information say they were ignored for months.  In January, students at Brooklyn Technical High School reportedly stumbled across a Google Drive containing documents uploaded by staff and students at schools across New York City. Among the documents were college recommendation letters, classwork, and parent-teacher conference sign-up sheets. The students could access the files because of a quirk in the school’s education…