Author: Asad Yaseen

2020 has been a very interesting year for the global workforce, with the vast majority of organizations having to rapidly transition to a remote workforce with little to no prior notice thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study looks at the effect of this transition to remote work and how organizations have fared. It also analyzes the impact of the pandemic and the resultant transition to remote work on cybersecurity professionals….

Moving to the cloud means a lot more than just moving your servers and applications to the cloud; it’s also about the data – and data always has a target on it. A lot of IT departments are finding that it’s easier to meet the “five nines” (99.999%) of uptime and availability by going outside their organization and letting AWS, Microsoft, or Google handle the infrastructure and personnel needed to meet those requirements. Plus, if your…

By Otavio Freire, CTO and Co-Founder, SafeGuard Cyber During a virtual panel discussion at the European Central Bank’s Forum on Central Banking in November, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell noted the pandemic’s economic effect was to accelerate existing trends, including the increasing use of technology and automation. “We’re recovering,” he said, “but to a different economy.” Indeed, the adoption of cloud-based apps that maximize flexibility and minimize friction in business communication is just such a…

Managing Complexity and Consistency, and Giving Users the Simplification, Automation, and Security They Want. By Laurence Pitt, Global Security Strategy Director, Juniper Networks Innovation is at the heart of cybersecurity – both because cybersecurity professionals are inherently curious by nature and because threat actors are continually innovating and evolving their attack approaches and the exploits themselves. Nonetheless, the last several months have demonstrated the need for change and new directions of innovation. A recent presentation…

Commentary: Companies used to look to open source to lower costs. That’s still true, but an even bigger driver is security, according to a new developer survey. Image: iStock/natasaadzic Companies have long turned to open source to save money. Surveys over the years have captured customer intent to lower costs through open source; analyst firms have called it out, too. Similar surveys and/or analyses historically identified common inhibitors to adoption, including support and security.  And…

A Kosovan hacker, imprisoned in the United States for stealing personal data belonging to US military and government personnel and sending it to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has been granted compassionate release. Ardit Ferizi was sentenced to 20 years in prison in September 2016 after he confessed to providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and to accessing a protected computer without authorization. Ferizi’s case made headlines for being the first-ever…

Norwegian police have blamed Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group Fancy Bear for the summer cyber-attack on Norway’s single-chamber parliament, the Storting. In what was described as “a significant attack” by the parliament’s director, Marianne Andreassen, unauthorized individuals managed to gain access to the email accounts of several elected members of parliament and to some accounts belonging to parliament employees on August 24.  On September 1, the Storting confirmed that a limited number of accounts had been…