Author: Asad Yaseen

News Detail Pat Gelsinger to Depart to Become CEO of Intel; Zane Rowe to Serve as Interim CEO PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a search for a new chief executive officer (CEO) following a decision by Pat Gelsinger to step down from the position, effective February 12, 2021, … Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 Pat Gelsinger to…

By Colin Rand, VP of Engineering, Banyan SecurityEngineering organizations present numerous challenges for security programs when it comes to remote access. They need secure access to dynamic hosts, services, and applications to productively do their jobs. The infrastructure these teams require is varied, ranging from external SaaS to internally hosted web services for wikis, git and build servers, various TCP services such as SSH and RDP, as well as database access and recently a huge…

In a previous blog, I discussed securing AWS management configurations by combating six common threats with a focus on using both the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Amazon Web Services Foundations benchmark policy along with general security best practices. Now I’d like to do the same thing for Microsoft Azure. I had the privilege of being involved in the development of the CIS Microsoft Foundations Benchmark, which was published in early 2018.  During that process, I learned…

Top Cyber Security Threats to Look Out for in 2021 2020 was unexpectedly  defined by a global pandemic. Throughout the year, we have all had to figure out how to best live our lives online – from working from home to distance learning to digitally connecting with loved ones.  As 2020 comes to a close, we must ask: will this new normal continue into 2021, and how will it affect how we connect – both with…

The Year 2020 brought a historic pandemic and bad actors leveraging COVID-19-themed threats to test our security operations and our unprecedented shift to a remote work life. As we enter 2021, these concerns are still at the forefront, but we are also looking ahead to other cyber threats likely to confront us in the months and years ahead.   The December 2020 revelations around the SUNBURST campaigns exploiting the SolarWinds Orion platform have revealed a new attack vector – the supply chain – that will continue to be exploited.    The ever-increasing…