Accountability for cybersecurity risk is shifting outside of IT, and the role of the cybersecurity leader needs to evolve, Gartner says in a new report. According to Gartner, security and risk managers are investing more effort into evaluating and influencing the cyberhealth of external parties, employees are making more decisions with cyber risk implications and […]
Microsoft now offers multi-cloud protection for the cloud industry’s top three platforms by extending the native capabilities for Microsoft Defender for Cloud to the Google Cloud Platform. This follows cloud security support for AWS in Defender for Cloud, which Microsoft released last November during its Ignite conference. According to Microsoft, Defender for Cloud support for […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a litany of free security tools and resources designed to help organizations advance its security capabilities, including widely used open-source tools and services offered by private and public sector organizations. The catalog of free resources comes amid rising geopolitical tensions that both government agencies and software […]
Microsoft is positioning itself as a partner in the U.S. government’s push toward a Zero Trust architecture, including the publication of resources designed to help organizations migrate to the cloud and adopt a Zero Trust framework and the release of Azure capabilities to help secure cloud environments. In a new blog, Microsoft outlined several resources, […]
As Microsoft Teams boasts a growing user base that is now over 270 million monthly active users, hackers are targeting it as a launchpad for sending malicious files, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Avanan. The company, a Check Point subsidiary, says it began last month observing hackers dropping malicious executable files in […]
As the world waits to see what unfolds in Ukraine, cybersecurity professionals are urging western governments and organizations to be prepared for serious cyberattacks coming from Russia and its allies. These warnings come from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as well as private sector cybersecurity software providers like Mandiant that have raised […]
VMware is urging customers to immediately patch vulnerabilities in ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and Cloud Foundation running in on-premises or co-located settings. The patches fix a total of five CVEs in those products that were disclosed during the Tianfu Cup, a Chinese security event that VMware participates in. According to the company, the flaws were reported […]
Threat detection provider Red Canary has added new capabilities and active remediation features to its cybersecurity offerings, including protections for systems beyond the endpoint and a new active 24/7 threat response offering. According to the company, the new threat investigation and active remediation features are designed to help customers investigate, triage and respond to threats, […]
Organizations with iPhones, iPads in their IT environment should apply a new Apple security update that fixes a new zero day code execution vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild. In an advisory, Apple said the issue impacts a wide range of devices, including: iPhone 6s and later, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air […]
NordVPN is stepping into the antivirus market with the release of Threat Protection, a new cybersecurity product integrated into the NordVPN app that offers protection against phishing attempts, malicious websites, infected files and other online threats. Specifically, the new offering mitigates three primary kinds of threats: web trackers and malicious ads, harmful websites and infected […]
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