With inspiration from her family of engineers, Jessica Smith was raised to approach problem-solving with curiosity, critical thinking, and creativity. These skillsets have helped her to pivot in a career path that started in photography, developed into finance and auditing, and now focuses on information security standards and compliance for the payments industry. In this edition of our blog, Jessica explains that working for a company that encourages the exploration of new skills and…

From a CISO’s point of view, 2021 was not a very good year. It started with a scramble to address the SolarWinds cyberattack and is ending with record-breaking highs in ransomware attacks. CISOs have had to deal with juggling a hybrid workforce with continuing security issues caused by COVID-19 and a skills shortage, cyberattacks on the critical infrastructure, understanding what the growth in cryptocurrency means for cybersecurity, and handling the usual everyday issues in the…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Ransomware, Maldocs, E-Commerce, Phishing, 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…

Password managers provide a more effective way to stay secure online but are still underutilized, says Security.org. Image: NicoElNino, Getty Images/iStockphoto Juggling a unique and strong password for every online account you use is a Sisyphean task, to put it in mythological terms. That’s why so many people still turn to weak passwords that they use and reuse across multiple accounts. Though biometric authentication is gaining traction, there’s still no universal alternative to passwords. But…

The new service protects against current and future cyberattacks, according to Quantinuum CEO, and works with existing cybersecurity systems. Quantinuum is the new company that combines trapped ion hardware from Honeywell Quantum Solutions and open-source software from Cambridge Quantum to create a full-stack quantum computing company. Image: Quantinuum Quantinumm’s software company Cambridge Quantum announced a new way to provide cryptographic keys that uses Honeywell’s H1, entanglement and an API. Quantum Origin can run on any…

Okay, so we have our Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) up and running, we can connect to the vCenter, NSX Manager etc. and have started to deploy workloads inside the SDDC, that’s awesome! But, now we want to be able to connect to the Internet from those workloads, and, just maybe, connect to them from the Internet. In this post, we’ll look at the steps needed to enable our workload VMs to access the Internet….