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February 2024

Connecticut College Announces Breach Investigations from March 2023

Connecticut College (CC) is a private campus institution in New London, CT; initially opened as a women’s college, the institution today serves a 2k-student population and offers more than 40 degree programs. In March 2023, cybercriminals victimized CC by accessing their network environment. Eleven months later, CC officials have begun sending impact notices to those with data exposed in the incident.

Using Vanta and AWS for secrets management and encryption

This blog is part of a series about how to use Vanta and AWS to simplify your organization’s cloud security. To learn more about how to use Vanta and AWS, watch our Coffee and Compliance on-demand webinar. ‍ Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is one of the most popular cloud providers for organizations today — providing one of the most flexible and secure cloud environments available.

Seeing into the Shadows: Tackling ChromeOS Blind Spots with Dell and CrowdStrike

According to a 2023 Forbes article, 12.7% of U.S. workers work remotely and 28.2% have adopted a hybrid work schedule. As device and usage trends continue to shift, organizations must find ways to secure remote endpoints that could grant adversaries access if left vulnerable.

Supercharge Cybersecurity Investigations with Splunk and Graphistry: A Powerful Combination for Interactive Graph Exploration

As a data scientist and Splunk user, you know the importance of leveraging the right tools to gain valuable insights from your cybersecurity data. In this blog post, we'll dive deeper into how combining Splunk and Graphistry can help you unlock new capabilities for your cybersecurity investigations and gain better resilience for your organization.

What is the Zero Trust Security Model?

Traditional security paradigms are increasingly falling short against sophisticated cyber threats in the dynamic and challenging cybersecurity landscape. This has led organizations to adopt the zero-trust security model, a paradigm shift that assumes no internal or external entity is to be trusted without verification.

Understanding Why Supply Chain Security is Often Unheeded

Many organizations downplay the critical aspect of whether their cybersecurity provider has the ability to properly vet a third-party vendor's cybersecurity posture. There are multiple reasons behind this and there are also considerations of where the cybersecurity vetting process can go off the rails during supply chain purchases.

Building Resilient Organizations around IT and Cybersecurity

In this program, we hear from industry leaders focused on how to transform their teams and organizations while facing these challenges and how they address the gap in technically skilled employees while trying to foster this transformation. Speakers: Ed Hubbard, Director, Site Reliability and Monitoring - Travelport Mitch Ashley, CTO, Techstrong Group Principal - Techstrong Research James Brodsky, Group Vice President, Global Security Strategists - Splunk.

Can Passkeys Be Shared?

Yes, passkeys can be shared when you store them in a password manager that supports them. Since passkeys are tied to the devices they’re created on, sharing them with someone who uses a different Operating System (OS) isn’t an option. However, with a dedicated password manager, users can share their passkeys with anyone, no matter what devices they use.