RSS_Virtulization

By Ryan Heidorn, Managing Partner, Steel Root For most Managed Service Providers (MSPs), using a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform to centrally manage their clients’ networks is a foregone conclusion – it’s generally assumed that RMM tools are necessary to deliver IT services. However, that tide may be turning as more MSPs wake up to the fact that traditional RMM platforms can introduce an increasingly unacceptable level of risk to their business and their…

By, George Waller, CEO of Strikeforce Technologies A full year of disruption by the global pandemic has forced businesses to adapt fast to the shifting remote work realities. This new dynamic, which has employees using their own computers and accessing company networks everywhere but the office, has created new headaches and threat vectors for security and IT professionals. There’s been a massive increase in global cyber attacks aimed at governments and corporations since the very…

Cloud-native applications that are based on new types of infrastructure such as containers and serverless platforms are being rapidly adopted by organizations worldwide. While cloud-native applications deliver compelling benefits such as elastic scalability, unmatched resilience and rapid development velocity, they also raise challenges. Cloud-native applications have a huge number of moving parts and are based on short-lived infrastructure elements that are here one minute and gone the next. This raises operational and maintenance challenges, but…

Siloscape is a new strain of malware that targets Windows Server containers to execute code on the underlying node and spread in the Kubernetes cluster. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks have spotted a piece of malware that targets Windows Server containers to execute code on the underlying node and then drop a backdoor into Kubernetes clusters. Siloscape is a heavily obfuscated malware that was designed to open a backdoor into poorly configured Kubernetes clusters in order…

Whether intentional or not, gig workers can cause security breaches. Here’s how to set your company up for safety. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with James Christiansen, VP and CSO of Netskope, about cybersecurity concerns with the gig workforce. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Karen Roby: We talk about the gig workforce. We’re seeing so many people working in such a different way now. The problem with that is cybersecurity becomes a…

Expert: Freelancers could set your company up for cybersecurity breach Length: 13:36 | Jun 9, 2021 If you’re hiring gig workers, take precautions to protect your company from intentional or accidental data breach. Source link

At the end of last year we launched vulnerability scanning options as part of the Docker platform. We worked together with our partner Snyk to include security testing options along multiple points of your inner loop.  We incorporated scanning options into the Hub, so that you can configure your repositories to automatically scan all the pushed images. We also added a scanning command to the Docker CLI on Docker Desktop for Mac and Windows, so…

An investigation has been launched to determine whether New York governor Andrew Cuomo broke the law by allegedly leaking the personnel file of the first of eleven women to accuse him of sexual harassment.  Cuomo’s former aide Lindsey Boylan first accused him of sexual harassment in December on Twitter. In February, Boylan shared details of the alleged harassment, claiming that Cuomo had compared her to one of his former girlfriends, asked her to play strip poker with him,…

One expert suggests ways to reach a happy medium between those who give up sensitive personal information and the organizations that use it. Image: Anawat Sudchanham/EyeEm/Getty Images It might be time to take a long hard look at who gets our personal data according to Ina Miranda, CTO and co-CEO of Treasure.cloud. In the introduction to her Help Net Security article: The obvious and not-so-obvious data you wouldn’t want companies to have, Miranda asks an important…

A preliminary settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought against Nebraska Medicine over a 2020 data security incident.  Omaha-based Nebraska Medicine suffered a cyber-attack in September 2020. The attack disrupted the healthcare provider’s information technology system, leading to the postponement of patient appointments.  Staff in the system’s hospitals and clinics had to chart by hand, and access to Nebraska Medicine’s patient portal and to patients’ electronic health records was impacted.  An investigation into the incident revealed that an unauthorized party…