The search for cybersecurity talent continues to accelerate across the U.S. economy, with cyber job postings growing at more than twice the rate of today’s overheated job market, according to new data from CyberSeek, a joint initiative between the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), Emsi Burning Glass and CompTIA. U.S. employers deployed 714,548 job […]
The pandemic changed many of our work behaviors, but none quite as significantly as the overwhelming amount of time spent in virtual meetings. According to Microsoft’s Work Trend Index, weekly virtual meeting time on Teams more than doubled during the pandemic, climbing 252% since February 2020. Zippia found the average employee spends 6% of their […]
Password management provider LastPass is launching a new secure passwordless login to the LastPass vault via the LastPass Authenticator, creating a passwordless password manager, which the company says is a first for the security industry. The Boston, Mass.-based company says the launch of passwordless login comes as the company is committed to a standards-based FIDO-supported […]
In a significant step towards interoperability between major videoconferencing platforms, Microsoft is making it easier to join third-party meeting platforms from Teams Rooms, starting with Zoom with the launch of Direct Guest Join. The company calls Direct Guest Join a “one-touch experience” that enables users to join a third-party online meeting from their Teams Rooms […]
Cisco unveiled its plan for a global, cloud-delivered, integrated platform that secures and connects organizations of any shape and size at today’s RSA Conference. Cisco Security Cloud is designed to be the “industry’s most open platform, protecting the integrity of the entire IT ecosystem—without public cloud lock-in,” says Cisco. Cisco Security Cloud is expected provide […]
In December 2021, the Apache Software Foundation disclosed that the popular Log4j framework contained a critical vulnerability that allowed remote code execution (RCE). It caused a security earthquake, keeping many CISOs up at night. The aftershocks are still felt. The vulnerability, known as Log4Shell, was extremely easy to exploit. Put simply, it allowed any malicious […]
Videoconferencing giant Zoom and Genesys, a global cloud provider of customer experience (CX) orchestration, has expanded its partnership. The duo will help businesses deliver CX by building upon its integration between Zoom Phone and Genesys Cloud CX. Together, the offerings provide organizations with an easy-to-configure and feature-rich cloud contact center and unified communications solution that […]
Editor’s note: This post has been modified with an updated security advisory and mitigation tips from Atlassian following a critical vulnerability first reported on June 3, 2022. Security researchers say a new critical zero-day vulnerability in all supported versions of Atlassian Confluence is being actively exploited to deploy webshells, and admins are being urged to […]
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Zero Trust Edge provider iboss has announced it will expand its relationship with Microsoft by joining the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association, an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV) and managed security service providers (MSSP) that have integrated their security products and services with Microsoft’s security products. Through the collaboration with Microsoft, customers benefit from secure, […]
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