Russian hackers who stole red team tools from FireEye may have been in action on a much broader scale, operating a sophisticated supply chain campaign targeting multiple global organizations and governments. FireEye revealed in an update on Sunday that nation state attackers inserted malicious code into legitimate software for SolarWinds’ popular Orion product to gain remote access into victim environments. Although it didn’t name any victims or the identity of the group, a Reuters report…

Aside from managing Tripwire’s security research team, Tyler Reguly also teaches a college course on cybersecurity. On this episode, Tyler shares his experience teaching the next generation of cybersecurity practitioners who are about to graduate and enter the workforce. Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/episode/7G9cXfVFeFxCfoEdhZlHOk?si=IZUhcqB1Q8WqG1h9vkRhJAStitcher:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-tripwire-cybersecurity-podcastRSS:https://tripwire.libsyn.com/rssYouTube:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgTfY3TXF9YKE9pUKp57pGSTaapTLpvC3 The following is an edited excerpt from a recent episode of Tripwire’s Cybersecurity Podcast. Tim Erlin: Today, I am joined by Tyler Reguly, manager of software development with Tripwire and we’re here to talk about…

2020 has been a very interesting year for the global workforce, with the vast majority of organizations having to rapidly transition to a remote workforce with little to no prior notice thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study looks at the effect of this transition to remote work and how organizations have fared. It also analyzes the impact of the pandemic and the resultant transition to remote work on cybersecurity professionals….

Moving to the cloud means a lot more than just moving your servers and applications to the cloud; it’s also about the data – and data always has a target on it. A lot of IT departments are finding that it’s easier to meet the “five nines” (99.999%) of uptime and availability by going outside their organization and letting AWS, Microsoft, or Google handle the infrastructure and personnel needed to meet those requirements. Plus, if your…

By Otavio Freire, CTO and Co-Founder, SafeGuard Cyber During a virtual panel discussion at the European Central Bank’s Forum on Central Banking in November, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell noted the pandemic’s economic effect was to accelerate existing trends, including the increasing use of technology and automation. “We’re recovering,” he said, “but to a different economy.” Indeed, the adoption of cloud-based apps that maximize flexibility and minimize friction in business communication is just such a…