One of the lasting changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic is that it forced organizations to rethink the concept of a workspace. As remote work became inevitable, IT teams had to enable the secure transition to remote work almost overnight. Opening up offices, on the contrary, will likely be executed in planned phases. A United States Department of State advisory recommends that workforces return to an office in three phases, with the employees most at risk coming in at a later stage.

Your business is growing at a steady rate, and you have big plans for the future. Then, your organization gets hit by a cyberattack, causing a massive data breach. Suddenly, your company’s focus is shifted to sending out letters to angry customers informing them of the incident - which is required by law in most states - and devising strategies to deal with the backlash.

With recent legal developments taking into account data privacy, it shows the importance of protection of individuals personal information for businesses. The UK left the EU on 31st January 2020. The current transition period ends on 31st December 2020, DPA 2018 takes centre stage with all matters of data privacy. Let’s dive into the beef first and then related GDPR, DPA information including the basics and gdpr vs dpa.

This week the US government as well as many enterprises were hit by a cyber attack, dubbed Solorigate, via the SUNBURST backdoor. Fireeye (also a victim of the attack) has done a great analysis of how the attack works, and we recommend reading it. But we’ll focus on a couple of takeaways instead of the precise details of how it worked. What we can learn from it in order to improve our cybersecurity posture.

Whether you’re a developer or an IT professional (or a bit of both!), enforcing and managing authorization policies for the new containerized world is a whole different ball game than it was before. There’s the complex nature of modern applications — composed of multiple microservices, housed in containers — and then there’s the dynamic nature of platforms like Kubernetes, running those applications.

On Dec 8, 2020, the cybersecurity company FireEye reported that there had been a cyber attack on their systems. As part of this attack, their inventory of Red Team tools was stolen. These tools could potentially be used by a threat actor against unsuspecting victims. On Dec 13, 2020, after further investigation of this attack, FireEye reported that the initial vector came through SolarWinds, an upstream vendor, as a malicious trojanized update of SolarWinds’ Orion IT platform.

For our annual State of Software Security report, we always look at the most common types of security flaws found in applications. It’s important to look at the various types of flaws present in applications so that application security (AppSec) teams can make decisions about how to address and fix flaws. For example, high-severity flaws, like those listed in OWASP Top 10 or SANS 25, or highly prevalent flaws can be detrimental to an application.

Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) stopped many things in 2020. While in-store holiday shopping may be greatly reduced for some, there’s still a lot of shopping happening online. Near the end of November 2020, Statista revealed that holiday retail sales were expected to grow approximately 3.6% over the previous year. And Adobe Analytics reported that online sales would likely rise 33% to a record $189 billion.

For the longest time, or as far as I can remember, the holy grail of all networking platforms has been the need for a single pane of glass, that single source of all information that you would need to be most effective. So, what is a single pane of glass?

On Tuesday 8th December in an unprecedented move leading cybersecurity provider FireEye admitted they had been breached and several of their red team tools and scripts had been stolen. In this blog we look at the list of vulnerabilities in these tools and how to protect your organization.