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Kubernetes has quickly emerged as one of the leading cloud technologies—and for good reason. Kubernetes makes it possible to deploy modern applications that are scalable, modular, and fault-tolerant. You declare the state you need your environment to be in and it constantly works to maintain that state, which frees up teams from manual tasks around infrastructure management. While Kubernetes has been popular with developers for a number of years, it’s now moving steadily into production…

This article answers a few of the more common questions from those who are trying to figure out the XDR space. Image: iStock/LeoWolfert As is expected with any new market segment or capability, questions about extended detection and response (XDR) abound. This article answers a few of the more common questions from those that are trying to figure this space out.  What Is XDR?  An incredibly simplified way of thinking about XDR is that it…

  As small and medium businesses begin to re-open following the pandemic, it’s important to do so securely in order to protect customer’s payment card data. Too often, data breaches happen as a result of vulnerabilities that are entirely preventable. The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has developed a set of payment protection resources for small businesses. In this 8-part back-to-basics series, we highlight payment security basics for protecting against payment data theft. Today’s…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Cryptojacking, Downloaders, Malspam, RATs, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity. Figure 1 – IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed. Trending Cyber News and…

You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Learn some tips to establish a positive reinforcement cybersecurity culture rather than a blame-and-shame game. Image: Nicoleta Ionescu/Shutterstock I once worked in an environment where adding users to Active Directory privileged groups was forbidden except via an official request approved by the individuals’ managers. This was carefully monitored, and on one occasion an email went out to a massive group of people stating the policy had…

You aren’t on your own in cybersecurity, but you should act like you are By Gregory Hoffer, CEO, Coviant Software Cybersecurity management is a dynamic process. There is no “set it and forget it.” Things move fast, conditions change constantly, and often the things that change happen beyond your control or notice. For organizations heavily invested in cloud services, the applications and computing instances you rely may change moment-to-moment. It’s hard to keep up. Modern…