RSS_Virtulization

  Just prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, Neha Abbad got an opportunity to work as a part of a high performing team at MattsenKumar Cyber Services in Gurgaon, a top metropolitan city of India. Accepting the challenge meant being separated from her family for months during the country-wide, pandemic-related lockdown. While difficult, the new work greatly inspired her and the support and encouragement from her seniors helped her build confidence…

Personal devices and the information they carry are incredibly valuable to their owners. It is only natural to want to protect your device like a royal family fortifying a medieval castle. Unlike medieval castles that depended upon layers and layers of protection (moats, drawbridges, spiky gates, etc.), personal devices thrive on just one defense: a devoted guard called antivirus software.  Increasing your personal device’s security detail with more than one guard, or antivirus software is actually less effective than using a single, comprehensive option. Microsoft operating systems recognize the detriment of running…

Personal devices and the information they carry are incredibly valuable to their owners. It is only natural to want to protect your device like a royal family fortifying a medieval castle. Unlike medieval castles that depended upon layers and layers of protection (moats, drawbridges, spiky gates, etc.), personal devices thrive on just one defense: a devoted guard called antivirus software.  Increasing your personal device’s security detail with more than one guard, or antivirus software is actually less effective than using a single, comprehensive option. Microsoft operating systems recognize the detriment of running…

CISOs from Twitter, United Airlines and a Bain Capital partner discuss how to integrate security into all aspects of an organization at Rubrik’s FORWARD conference Tuesday. Image: kaptnali, Getty Images/iStockphoto There are higher incidents of ransomware because new threat models are emerging and bad actors are participating more frequently in ransomware as a service, said United Airlines VP and CISO Deneen DeFiore. “There is an evolution happening,” said DeFiore, speaking during a data security panel…

Industry-Leading Innovations Including SaaS Security, Advanced URL Filtering, DNS Security, a Cloud Identity Engine and New ML-Powered Firewalls Help Customers Adopt a Zero Trust architecture across their Network Security Stack SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020, today introduced five key innovations that make it easier for customers to adopt Zero Trust across their network security stack….

As businesses move to the cloud, threat actors have kept pace, which makes their attacks harder to detect and more effective than ever. Image: jctabb/Shutterstock The latest escalation of the cybersecurity arms race finds threat actors following their targets into the cloud as they start to launch difficult-to-detect attacks by leveraging trusted domains owned by companies like Google and Microsoft. According to a blog post from cybersecurity software company Proofpoint, cloud collaboration tools like Microsoft…

We’re all impatient these days, we want things fast and we want them all at once, especially when it comes to technology. In 2010, Intel even had an ad campaign about how watching the hourglass whilst waiting for something to load can lead to stress! They called it “Hourglass Syndrome” and I’m sure we can all relate. But why is it that we hear AI/ML workloads in particular need more performance? Is it because we’re…

The UK privacy regulator has fined a QR code provider that abused its access to personal data to spam individuals with direct marketing at the height of the pandemic. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) explained in a notice yesterday that it fined St Albans firm Tested.me £8000 after it send the marketing email without gaining adequate valid consent from data subjects. The firm provided clients with contact tracing services by enabling them to offer customers…