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COVID-19 and the subsequent uptick in targeted cyberattacks accelerate the need for biometric-based digital onboardingBy Bob Eckel, President & CEO, Aware, Inc.As we entered 2020, organizations were beginning to undergo transformations to meet the growing demands of an increasingly digital marketplace. In adopting new technologies to streamline and accelerate business operations, banks and other consumer-focused businesses aimed to drive steady increases of biometric-based digital onboarding methods. These industries were striving to remove friction from onboarding…

As the calendar leaves 2020 in the rear view mirror, we’re looking forward to the year ahead. And as part of this, today we’re announcing the dates for DockerCon Live 2021. DockerCon Live will take place on May 27th, 2021. Sign up here to pre-register for the event! Once again, DockerCon Live will be a free, online experience full of demos of products and innovation from Docker and our partners. You’ll get deep technical sessions…

Originally posted by Tobias on LinkedIn here – Re-Edited and released for VMware Cloud Insights.   Datacentre < > Cloud CLOUD!…….Great, now I have your attention, let’s talk about data centers. Data centers, remember those? Yes, it’s what we used to call Private Clouds before they were known as clouds. What about Co-los? Yes, those shared data centers we used before they were called Public Clouds or Cloud Hosted. It all still starts with the…

In their attempt to extort as much money as quickly as possible out of companies, ransomware gangs know some effective techniques to get the full attention of a firm’s management team. And one of them is to specifically target the sensitive information stored on the computers used by a company’s top executives, in the hope of finding valuable data that can best pressure bosses into approving the payment of a sizeable ransom. Although the technique…

CISOs faced a number of challenges in 2020, not the least of which was COVID-19 and the mass migration from onsite to remote work. Maybe for the first time, corporate leadership saw just how vital the security team is to ensuring the company runs, and runs smoothly, thus making 2020 the year when the CISO and cybersecurity teams went from the background to the very forefront of enabling organizational productivity. In 2021, CISOs and their…

Tripwire‘s December 2020 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Pulse Secure, and Oracle. First on the patch priority list this month are two vulnerabilities that have recently been included within the Metasploit exploit framework. One is a vulnerability in Pulse Secure Desktop Client and the other is a vulnerability that impacts Oracle Solaris versions 10 and 11. Up next on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft Edge,…

A popular joke among technologists says that it’s always DNS, even when it initially didn’t seem that way. DNS issues come in many shapes and forms, including some often-overlooked security issues. DNS (short for the Domain Name System) continues to be described as “the phonebook of the Internet,” but many people, including most readers of this blog, will be more familiar with the basic workings of DNS than with the outdated phenomenon of paper phonebooks….

Last year, I wrote about the Verizon Payment Security Report saying it was ”Not Just for PCI.” Verizon liked that post enough to include its introduction in this year’s version. This recognition was a wonderful surprise. Like last year’s report, the 2020 publication goes well beyond PCI in its information and recommendations. While PCI DSS forms the foundation of these reports and informs their content, the guidance is broadly applicable, and they could easily be…