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As secrets have a role in most security incidents, Snyk is excited to partner with GitGuardian to help development and security teams scale their security programs and further reduce an application's attack surface at every stage of the code-to-cloud lifecycle. We recently spoke at GitGuardian's first digital conference, CodeSecDays, joining security leaders from Chainguard, Doppler, Kondukto, and more — who shared insights on software signing, open source security, and secrets management.

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According to Forbes, 90% of startups fail. According to the Harvard Business Review, the number is closer to 70%, but whichever number you choose to believe, the odds are still staggeringly stacked against young new ventures. At Forward Networks, we just had a terrific time two weeks ago celebrating the company’s 10th anniversary. Ten years is impressive by any measure, but especially so in the cutthroat universe of Silicon Valley tech startups.

Progressive is a large insurance company based in Mayfield Village, Ohio. The company is known throughout the United States and other parts of the world and is responsible for insuring many US citizens. The organization employs over 49,000 workers and generates an estimated $48 billion in annual revenue. Since Progressive is an insurance company, it handles personal data, medical information, and other sensitive details about individuals.

Load balancers are an integral component of any production environment. They allow the distribution of traffic across multiple available backend servers so that no single server becomes overwhelmed due to traffic. A load balancer can be configured for workloads running on AWS through the Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) service. At a high level, an ELB consists of 3 main components: AWS offers 3 different types of Elastic Load Balancers.

As companies continue to face new and increasing cybersecurity risks, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a cyber risk scoring methodology that helps organizations to assess, quantify, and manage their cybersecurity posture effectively. The NIST Cyber Risk Scoring solution improves NIST’s security and privacy assessment processes by providing real-time contextual risk data, enhancing awareness, and prioritizing necessary security actions.

In recent weeks, the Cyberint research team has observed an alarming emerging trend – an ongoing and successful hacking campaign is targeting LinkedIn accounts, all following a consistent method. This campaign is currently affecting individuals worldwide, resulting in a significant number of victims losing access to their accounts. Some have even been pressured into paying a ransom to regain control or faced with the permanent deletion of their accounts.

Over the past few years, ransomware has emerged as one of the most significant cybersecurity threats. Recent research conducted by Sophos indicates that the situation is becoming increasingly dire. Notably, the payments demanded by ransomware groups have surged, making the attacks even more costly for victims. Additionally, an alarming 66% of organizations have reported being targeted by ransomware attacks in the last two years alone.

As enterprises increasingly migrate to the public cloud, identity and access management (IAM) inconsistencies across different cloud providers pose a significant hurdle. Effectively securing identities in this complex landscape has proven to be a challenge. Discussions with industry analysts and enterprise clients have highlighted a prevalent issue: the existing security tool suite often falls short in providing actionable measures to weave identity security into cloud operations.