The Data Protection Act is an important part of the cyber domain and legislation for anyone working in health and social care. It governs how to protect the information in health and social care. This blog post will explore the implications of the act on healthcare professionals, patients and other individuals who may have dealings with you as an organisation or individual providing care to others and the importance of protecting sensitive data in health and social care.

During the past month, the following notable high-severity vulnerabilities have been observed. It is recommended that those using affected products take immediate action to assess their exposure and patch and/or remediate as necessary.

In recent years, we have witnessed a tectonic shift in the way organizations develop and maintain software. As part of this shift, IT operations are quickly getting decentralized.

Kevin Kerr, Lead Security Principal Consultant at Trustwave, participated in a discussion on Zero Trust with Steve Riley, Field CTO at Netskope during SASE Week 2021. The importance of Zero Trust is derived from how it functions. Instead of focusing on protecting a physical network, a Zero Trust network works by focusing on securing the resources that reside on or have access to the network such as data, identities, and services.

Co-authored by Andy Horwitz and Yuri Duchovny Today, Netskope released a new cloud security solution to help AWS customers provide consistent security across all their AWS accounts leveraging AWS Control Tower. Many AWS Customers follow the multi-account framework as a best practice to isolate teams and workloads on the cloud. Often this may introduce overhead in terms of policy configuration and management.

CISA recently released a set of playbooks for the Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) to provide improved cybersecurity incident response (IR) and vulnerability response. As was demonstrated by the SolarWinds SUNBURST attack in December 2020, coordination and reporting across the FCEB continues to be a challenge. Adding to this challenge is the situation where agencies have differing playbooks on how to handle confirmed malicious cyber activity where a major incident has been identified.

Last month, we covered how Tripwire Configuration Manager can audit your cloud service provider accounts like AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud-based services such as Salesforce. In this blog, we will continue our dive into cloud services and show how Tripwire Configuration Manager can monitor your Zoom environments. Zoom is a popular video telecommunications platform that has seen tremendous growth in the past few years.

For many of us, the Thanksgiving and Christmas period is a chance for some well-deserved downtime. For cybercriminals, not so much. The holiday season is one of the most productive time of the year for the Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) industry. Online retail sales spike around holidays, creating more opportunities to catch people out with phishing emails and spoofed websites.

As we enter the holiday season, Egnyte is excited to share a number of updates to its platform, including user experience improvements, new governance functionality, and enhancements to search on mobile. Check out some of our top product releases for November below.

A recent report from IBM found that data breach costs rose from $3.86 million to $4.24 million in 2021. This year’s estimate is the highest average total cost in the 17-year history of the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report. Partly, the record-setting cost of a data breach has to do with the fact that so many companies are working remotely.