The cyber security skills gap was a problem prior to the pandemic. In a survey of 342 security professionals released in early 2020, Tripwire found that 83% of security experts felt more overworked going into the new year compared to how they felt at the start of 2019. Tripwire asked respondents to elaborate on that sentiment. In response, almost the same proportion (82%) of survey participants said their teams were understaffed, with 85% revealing that…

In 2019, the hospitality industry suffered 13 percent of all data breaches, ranking third highest among targeted industries. It was two years later when NIST released SP 1800-27: Securing Property Management Systems to help hoteliers secure their Property Management Systems (PMS) and associated patron data. The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at NIST collaborated with cybersecurity solutions providers and the hospitality business community to create a zero-trust example implementation framework under which a PMS…

By Dmitriy Kardashev, Founder and CEO, SecureData, Inc. In today’s world, consumers and businesses alike require consistent and easy access to their data. Whether it’s large customer databases that an organization relies on for daily operations, highly confidential and sensitive information that flows through government, healthcare or manufacturing sectors, or irreplaceable photos and videos stored on mobile devices, any disruption of access could be catastrophic. A comprehensive data recovery plan should be as integral a…

The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend that impacted its government’s network and shut down its websites. One of the biggest cities in the US  by population size, the City of Tulsa, was victim of a ransomware attack that affected its government’s network and forced the shutdown of official websites over the weekend. Shortly after the attack, that took place Friday night, the city issued a statement…

The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, Fileless Malware, Malspam, Phishing, Ransomware, Rootkits, Targeted Attacks 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 agazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed….

You’ve learned the basics of customer identity and access management (CIAM). And you’ve listened as experts from Okta explained the CIAM Maturity Curve, which helps organizations determine where they fall on the spectrum. In this third episode of our 5-episode podcast, The C-level Strategic Guide for CIAM Investment, we will explore phase 2 on the CIAM Maturity Curve: Automated. Companies at phase 2 can face a range of new challenges, says Keith Casey, API Problem…

VMware vRealize Cloud Management Suite now supports Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution  I am pleased to announce that customers can now take advantage of VMware vRealize Cloud Management with Azure VMware Solution. We have three vRealize solutions available as either on-premises software or cloud service that VMware has validated to support Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution: (1) vRealize Automation and vRealize Automation Cloud, (2) vRealize Operations and vRealize Operations Cloud, and (3) vRealize Network Insight and vRealize Network Insight Cloud. VMware supports all these vRealize solutions.  Customers can use their existing on-premises vRealize software licenses and vRealize cloud SaaS subscriptions to extend their vRealize management practices to the Azure VMware Solution. Customers who do not have a specific vRealize product that they want to use with Azure VMware Solution can purchase it from VMware or…