Over the past year, in my work as a Cloud Economist here at VMware supporting the VMC on Dell EMC offering, I’ve had the privilege to run TCO analysis with many organizations across multiple industries and locations. In that time, I have found that some of these TCO studies produce negative results, but for a few industries and their use cases, the results are positive. Here are a few observations. But first, a word on…

This might create problems for those from poorer countries. Their countries may not have the resources to create vaccine passports that are readable everywhere. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Marc Rogers, executive director for cybersecurity at Okta, about vaccine passports. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Karen Roby: Marc, obviously, we’ve talked to you many times in the past regarding ransomware and pretty much every other security issue. Today, though, a hot…

Security experts: Consistency and security are key in creating vaccine passports Length: 7:34 | Jul 20, 2021 Countries and states have to agree on a consistent platform for vaccine passports in order to make them work effectively. Source link

US DoJ indicted four members of the China-linked cyberespionage group known as APT40 for hacking various entities between 2011 and 2018. The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) indicted four members of the China-linked cyber espionage group APT40 (aka TEMP.Periscope, TEMP.Jumper, and Leviathan) for hacking tens of government organizations, private businesses and universities around the world between 2011 and 2018. “The defendants and their Hainan State Security Department (HSSD) conspirators sought to obfuscate the Chinese government’s role in such theft by establishing…

Worried about supply chain attacks? Tom Merritt can help you understand your risk. Whether its Stuxnet, SolarWinds or Microsoft Exchange, chances are you’ve read about supply chain attacks. But, hey, you follow all the security procedures right? You’re not going to get targeted, right? Hmm. Here are five things to know about supply chain attacks. It doesn’t target you. It targets your suppliers. Hence the name. You trust your suppliers so you let them in…

Worried about supply chain attacks? Tom Merritt has answers for you. Source link

By Daniel Petrillo , Director of Security Strategy, Morphisec Endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions, and their evolution — extended detection and response (XDR) platforms — are increasingly popular. To underscore that point, the market was valued at $1.81 billion in 2020, according to Mordor Intelligence, and looks to increase to $6.9 billion by 2026 for a CAGR of 25.6% over the next five years. This is huge as more companies start to look into…

iPhones have been compromised by the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Should you be worried? That depends on who you ask. Image: James Martin/CNET The iPhone has always been lauded for its tight security and privacy controls, especially compared with Android devices. But that reputation took a hit this week with the revelation that a spyware program ostensibly used to hack into the phones of criminals and terrorists was abused by certain authoritarian governments to compromise…