We’re extremely happy to announce that Torq has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. The CSA has more than 80,000 members worldwide and has been endorsed by the American Presidential Administration, which selected the CSA Summit as the venue for announcing the federal government’s cloud computing strategy.

Inadequate cybersecurity is a severe issue that challenges SMBs and enterprises indiscriminately, putting them at risk. Reasons for the business impact include: To help businesses navigate cybersecurity risks, many delegate to internal or external security operation centers (SOC).

Jason Chan, a key member of the Torq Advisory Board, has spent more than 20 years working in pivotal cybersecurity roles. One of his most important positions was leading the information security organization at the video streaming behemoth Netflix for more than a decade. His Netflix team set the bar extraordinarily high, focusing on sophisticated risk assessment and management, and compliance management strategies and approaches.

Cloud adoption is vastly increasing. Right now, 9o% of businesses are using or plan to use a multi-cloud environment. While the cloud, which refers to internet-accessed servers that are not directly managed by the business, can help organizations scale in a cost-effective manner, they also create new cybersecurity risks.

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail,” said Benjamin Franklin. These words cannot be overstated in most business fields, especially when it comes to automation. Process automation has the potential to enhance operations in most organizations, but problems can emerge when they don’t plan and strategize around their automation objectives.

We’ve made it through spooky season once again, but there is still plenty of scary business unfolding in the world of cybersecurity. October offered several useful cautionary tales for organizations, including a company that took fast action and averted a threat, one that overlooked a security gap for far too long, another that offered a crucial reminder about improper conduct, and one more that … well, we’re not quite sure what the heck happened with that one.

On October 25, 2022, the OpenSSL project announced the existence of a critical vulnerability in the OpenSSL library affecting OpenSSL versions 3.0.0 and above, as well as any application with an embedded, impacted OpenSSL library. This announcement did not include any details on what this vulnerability is or how it can be exploited. On November 1, 2022, a cryptographic library used for encrypting communications in a wide variety of applications on the internet.

In this episode of the Future of Security Operations, Thomas speaks with Andrew DiMichele, Director of Security Operations at Redis, whose background is building security operations programs. Andrew's security journey began in the US Air Force Reserves and has brought him to CISCO, banking, IBM, and Citrix.

On October 28th, 2022, ConnectWise disclosed a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting ConnectWise Recover (version 2.9.7 and earlier) and R1Soft Server Backup Manager (version 6.16.3 and earlier). A threat actor could leverage an authentication bypass vulnerability in these products (CVE-2022-36537) to leak server private key files, software licenses, and system configuration files and ultimately achieve RCE as the system superuser.