It’s critical to plug cybersecurity vulnerabilities before bad guys get wind of them. To make that happen, businesses should encourage security and developer teams to collaborate, says an expert. Image: iStockphoto/maxkabakov After-the-fact cybersecurity is something cybercriminals appreciate. “With attackers continuing to innovate ways they can compromise their victims’ assets, it’s becoming increasingly critical for organizations to reduce their attack surfaces,” said Rickard Carlsson, co-founder, and CEO of Detectify, a cybersecurity company utilizing ethical hackers. “To…

At Docker, we feel strongly about embracing diversity and we are committed to being proactive with respect to inclusion. As an example of our support for diversity, we are hosting the Community Rooms during DockerCon with panels and sessions for our global audience in their native languages. We are also highlighting the contributions from our women Captains and community developers. At DockerCon, the Women in Tech panel will focus on the breadth and depth of…

Some 84% of global organizations have suffered a serious security incident over the past two years and a majority are expecting another SolarWinds-style supply chain attack, according to a new Splunk report. The IT data platform provider interviewed 535 security leaders in nine leading economies across multiple industries, to compile its latest report, The State of Security 2021. Of those that were successfully attacked, email compromise (42%) was the most common incident, followed by data…

Average total annual financial loss for companies from compromised cloud accounts is more than $500,000, according to new research.  (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Average total annual financial loss for companies from compromised cloud accounts is more than $500,000, according to new research.  The findings came from a survey of 600 IT and security professionals in the U.S. jointly produced by Proofpoint and the Ponemon Institute. The report also noted that 68% of respondents believe cloud account…

Organizations reported an average of 19 cloud-based compromises in the past year, but most don’t evaluate the security of SaaS apps before deployment. Cloud compromise is expensive, and its costs continue to rise. A new report finds compromised cloud accounts led to an average financial loss of $6.2 million for surveyed organizations, or an average of 3.5% of their total revenues over the past 12 months. To learn more about how businesses protect confidential data…

Adding statistical noise to a data set can guarantee that there are no accidental information leaks. It’s a difficult task, made easier by the open-source SmartNoise framework. Data is the new oil, as the saying goes — both valuable and requiring a lot of clean-up if it leaks. The fear that information in anonymised data can be reidentified and deanonymized puts people off contributing their information and makes it harder for researchers to get access…