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Social engineering is allowing cybercriminals the way in. Learn how to lock that door. Image: iStockphoto/BeeBright There is something those responsible for a company’s cybersecurity must come to terms with: Technology alone is not going to get the job done. It’s time to shift some of the focus from technology to psychology, as even the most sophisticated cybersecurity system has not prevented people from falling victim to social engineering. You may or may not be…

In refining full stack visibility, it’s clear that different operations have different needs, and require different tools to monitor and observe the full stack. VMware Cloud Management can help you monitor your Kubernetes installation and the clusters that get deployed on top of that.   As we’ve seen in the previous Kubernetes blog posts (part 1,2,3), more and more IT workloads are getting deployed using Kubernetes. Kubernetes has become the platform of choice for developers to…

IT resources are critical, and managing IT debt is a full time job. When managing your IT infrastructure is technical debt your top financial priority? Should it be? Let’s take a look at what can be an economic balancing act and see what to consider when deciding your path.   It is the best and worst part of a meeting. After everything from sports analogies, pain and gain, speeds and feeds, and time on the…

Tenable®, Inc. the Cyber Exposure company, today announced it has achieved ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, recognizing its proven commitment to the highest level of information security management. Following an extensive audit process, the certification was issued by Schellman & Company LLC. ISO 27001 is a globally recognized standard mandating numerous controls for the establishment, maintenance and certification of an information security management system (ISMS). Tenable’s ISMS is designed to cover all key areas of a robust…

As we write this on Wednesday, the massive SolarWinds cyberattack, purportedly perpetrated by Russian intelligence and impacting some 18,000 government agencies and private sector businesses, is just starting to come into focus. So far, the healthcare dimensions of the hack include the apparent targeting of the National Institutes of Health. It appears to be the kind of state-sponsored effort that Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, spoke about during the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum just this past…

By Jacob Chacko Regional Business Head – Middle East, Saudi & South Africa (MESA) at HPE Aruba There has never been a greater need to connect students, classrooms, and buildings. Enrolment of students (who are always more tech-savvy and more expectant than the year that preceded them) continues to rise, and the benefits of technology – better grades and greater staff well-being – are necessary if schools are to maintain high levels of performance during…

Microsoft is preparing to quarantine malicious versions of the SolarWinds Orion application used in recent nation state attacks, in a move that may crash systems. The computing giant had previously released detections to alert customers of its Windows Defender security product if they were running the malicious updates. Although it was recommended that such customers isolate and investigate any such devices, the decision was down to them. However, in an update yesterday Microsoft effectively said…

A pandemic makes CIOs and CISOs strange bedfellows, and this year they have had to work together more closely than ever under unprecedented circumstances. The result? The state of the relationship has generally improved. Organizations across the board have accelerated their digital initiatives and migrations to the cloud to support remote workers and customers in the past several months. This has “caused people’s risk appetites to shift very, very dramatically and it’s caused CIOs and…