Microsoft has announced the general availability of new response actions in Microsoft Defender for Identity for on-premises Active Directory accounts when an identity is compromised and simultaneously protect identities across cloud and on-premise environments. According to Microsoft, the core components of an identity security product should work to prevent malicious actions, detect them, investigate and […]
Microsoft announced a new U.S. government cloud environment: Office 365 Government Secret Cloud which is currently under review, pending accreditation with targeted availability starting mid-2022. The new Azure environment is built to support the U.S. Federal Civilian, Department of Defense, intelligence community and U.S. government partners working within the secret enclave. As workloads have shifted […]
Managing Windows Update in Microsoft can be complicated — especially when admins implement more policies than necessary and don’t leverage the default settings while managing a variety of Windows devices. To help admins better manage the update cycle in their organizations, Microsoft has released a Tech Community blog that details how to best manage Windows […]
With thousands of new software vulnerabilities to protect against each year, it is critical that organizations develop a robust vulnerability management program that can quickly identify and remediate vulnerabilities in IT environments. Issues like Log4Shell, PrintNightmare, ProxyLogon and dozens of other critical vulnerabilities in widely used systems have kept IT departments up at night as […]
George Waller, EVP and co-founder of StrikeForce Technologies, an entrepreneur and technologist with over two decades in the cybersecurity and computer industries offers insights into must have cybersecurity features for videoconferencing and how we should be thinking about meetings in the future. Q: What are the top cybersecurity and data privacy concerns with general purpose […]
As Big Tech firms begin to dive head first into the metaverse, Microsoft is urging the industry to make cybersecurity a priority and establish core security principles before the emerging technology becomes too advanced and vulnerable to exploitation. In a blog post, Charlie Bell, the company’s executive vice president of security, compliance, identity and management, […]
Hackers are continuing to leverage the Log4Shell vulnerability to attack VMware Horizon servers and deploy cryptocurrency mining malware and backdoors, with a large wave of such attacks from mid-January still ongoing, according to cybersecurity firm Sophos. In a new report, Sophos says the attempts to leverage Horizon continued and grew in number throughout January and […]
Workplace technology maker Crestron says its line of DM NVX AV-over-IP solutions are now certified by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) and the U.S. government’s Common Criteria, certifying that the products meet cybersecurity standards. The designations open up new avenues for the DM NVX products in U.S. government agencies, including federal civilian agencies and […]
Google and Microsoft are urging organizations to deploy a patch to address a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in Chrome. Other than being called a “Type Confusion in V8” and that an exploit for it exists in the wild, details about this particular vulnerability are scarce. Google says the Chrome update 99.0.4844.84 for Windows, Mac and […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added 66 software security bugs that are being actively exploited to its database of known exploited vulnerabilities, including some from leading technology vendors that date back several years. For the majority of the products implicated in the new additions, there are patches available to remediate the […]
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