Multiple governments have released a long list of IT vendors and their products that are impacted by the Log4j vulnerability, including the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Dutch National Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) The two agencies are maintaining running lists of vendors impacted by the vulnerability on their respective GitHub repositories, […]
Technology distribution giant Exertis is acquiring Almo Corp. in North America, the biggest such deal in the history of Extertis’ parent company DCC Technology, one that purportedly makes it the largest pro AV specialist business in North America. According to Exertis, this deal builds on other acquisitions the company made in North American, including Stampede, […]
As system administrators, cybersecurity experts and other IT professionals work around the clock to address the Log4j vulnerability, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Adobe released a slew of security patches this week that address significant software flaws. Microsoft and Adobe followed the typical patch Tuesday cycle, releasing a total of 78 patches across products from the two […]
Use of popular unified communication and collaboration (UCC) platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, Google Meet, Slack and a host of others skyrocketed during the pandemic due to remote work migration, and these tools will continue to play an important role in the workplace as organizations adopt hybrid work models. However, the additional usage […]
Boston-based ChaosSearch shared findings from its survey of 1,020 U.S. IT professionals on data retention, data usage, and investments in data lake and cloud data platforms. The findings show that IT talent may be wasted on moving, migrating, pipelining and transforming data—a process that can be automated to enable faster, more insightful analytics. The volume […]
The Log4J vulnerability discovered late last week continues to make lives extremely busy for IT and cybersecurity professionals and software vendors rush to investigate if their products are vulnerable and push patches out to customers while those customers investigate the hundreds of apps their organization uses to determine how exposed they are. The widely used […]
Security researchers have discovered a new easy-to-exploit zero-day vulnerability in the ubiquitous Java logging library Apache Log4j 2 that could give attackers the ability to execute unauthenticated remote code execution. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with dozens of cybersecurity providers, have issued alerts and advisories of the vulnerability, CVE-2021-44228, which they warn […]
According to a new Microsoft study in conjunction with the Ponemon Institute, the Internet of Things and new innovations in operational technology is becoming critical for business, but simultaneously increasing an organization’s cyber risk. Researchers surveyed more than 600 IT, cybersecurity and OT security experts across the U.S., and found that many organizations are making […]
Last year at this time, I was predicting how the various dominoes would fall as a result of what we learned in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, most of the way through a second year of coping with COVID-19 and looking at what 2022 will bring, my focus is on what is […]
The effects of the pandemic, leading to what is being called The Great Resignation, is having a severe impact on the global workforce as companies report difficulties finding and retaining talent. However, the same issue is also having an impact on the cybersecurity posture of these organizations, according to a new report from human-centric security […]
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