The security analyst is the backbone of a company’s day-to-day IT security. Whether they’re monitoring network infrastructure for breaches and intrusions as part of a security operations center, performing internal security audits, or analyzing past breaches to find the root causes of network vulnerability, they work to keep the company’s infrastructure locked down tight. If you’re looking to get into this line of work, you may be wondering if a professional certification can help you…

Tripwire’s October 2021 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Squid, Microsoft, and Adobe. First on the patch priority list this month are patches for Squid (CVE-2021-31807, CVE-2021-31806). Exploits for these vulnerabilities have been recently added to the Metasploit Exploit Framework. These systems should be patched as soon as possible. Next are patches for Microsoft Office Word and Excel. These patches resolve 7 issues, including remote code execution and information disclosure vulnerabilities. Up…

Accenture’s State of Cyber Resilience study also revealed key traits of cyber resilient leaders. The report found an average of 270 attacks per year per company. Image: Virgiliu Obada/Shutterstock More than half (55%) of large companies are not effectively stopping cyberattacks, finding and fixing breaches quickly or reducing the impact of breaches, according to a new research study from Accenture. SEE: Security incident response policy (TechRepublic Premium) Accenture’s State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2021 study explored…

Looking through various recent studies on the success of AI Apps for enterprises, It seems many businesses have developed AI Apps, but the apps only very rarely make it into production. Challenges seem to come from everywhere, from infrastructure and capacity, to skills scarcity, to the lack of automation or virtualization, where data scientists are having to request physical GPUs manually! Over the last decade in the Cloud and Automation space, we’ve already been through…