RSS_Virtulization

NIST’s timely new release of Special Publication (SP) 800-172 (formerly referred to in draft form as 800-171B) provides exactly what its title says, Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information: A Supplement to NIST SP 800-171. Yet it goes a step further to protect controlled unclassified information (CUI) specifically from APTs. According to Scott Goodwin, IT audit and security supervisor with OCD Tech and Tripwire guest blog contributor, the latest NIST guidance “…introduces 33…

Increasingly complex threats, staffing shortages, and rising costs are driving investments in security automation By Chris Triolo, Vice President of Customer Success, FireEye The cybersecurity landscape is becoming ever more complex as the number and sophistication of threats continue to rise across all channels and industries. Ransomware, phishing, supply chain attacks and other threats have all grown dramatically over the past year. The FBI reported that complaints made to its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)…

By Mazen A. Dohaji, Vice President, India, Middle East, Turkey & Africa (iMETA), LogRhythm. Throughout 2020, enterprises and public sector organizations across the Middle East have been managing disruption and finding new ways to work. The challenge as we begin 2021 is to not just survive but thrive in this new business environment. That requires adopting new tools and creating a secure foundation that keeps users connected and moving forward. While many organizations have experienced…

On April 15-16, 2021, VMware is heading to the AWS Public Sector Summit and we’re hoping you are, too. We have a lot to share. From our video on-demand session to one-on-one chats with our cloud experts at our online booth, you’ll hear the latest on how VMware helps educational, government and healthcare organizations accelerate their cloud migrations and application modernization. Our video on-demand session (Session ID: SPN202) features Andrew Nielsen, VMware Senior Director of…

Facebook has closed accounts used by a China-linked APT to distribute malware to spy on Uyghurs activists, journalists, and dissidents living outside China. Facebook has taken action against a series of accounts used by a China-linked cyber-espionage group, tracked as Earth Empusa or Evil Eye, to deploy surveillance malware on devices used by Uyghurs activists, journalists, and dissidents living outside China. “Today, we’re sharing actions we took against a group of hackers in China known in the security industry…

An American healthcare provider whose data was allegedly exfiltrated to an Amazon storage account by a cyber-attacker has taken legal action against Amazon.  As many as 85,688 patient and employee records were compromised last week when a threat actor seemingly based in Ukraine struck SalusCare, the largest provider of behavioral healthcare services in Southwest Florida. The attacker is believed to have gained access to SalusCare’s Microsoft 365 environment after an employee clicked a malicious link in a phishing…

Looking for an easy-to-deploy VPN server for your data center? Jack Wallen walks you through the steps for installing the open source Pritunl solution. Image: iStockphoto/Igor Kutyaev At this point in the game, you probably have several employees that will be working from home permanently. That being the case, you might need to deploy a VPN or two, to virtualize your private networks. There are several tools available to make this possible. One such VPN…