Empathy — that ability to understand what others are feeling — might be the secret ingredient when it comes to successfully shifting security into the developer world. Snyk co-founder and president Guy Podjarny hosts The Secure Developer podcast, and in interview after interview, guests have repeatedly spoken about how empathy, understanding, and a bias toward action are the biggest components of a successful developer-first security culture.

The COVID-19 crisis prompted a spike in ransomware attacks, which was expected, to say at least. In fact, Checkpoint research shows that in Q3 2020, there was a 50% increase in ransomware attacks compared to earlier periods of this year. And while this wave of ransomware attacks was anticipated, not all organizations were reinforced enough to repel these attacks with proper resources and technologies.

Malware detection is an important part of the Netskope Security Cloud platform, complete with a secure access service edge (SASE) architecture, that we provide to our customers. Malware is malicious software that is designed to harm or exploit devices and computer systems. Various types of malware, such as viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, and spyware, remain a serious problem for corporations and government agencies.

Can you enumerate every single network socket which can be used to hack into your cloud environment and steal your data? When counting, are you including the laptops of people who already authenticated and have access? The purpose of opening with this question is not to instill fear. Trying to answer it probably leads to “it’s complicated” and the complexity of access is what this article will cover. Complexity is our collective enemy in the computing industry.

The FBI and CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) have jointly issued an advisory to organisations, warning about an increase in the number of attacks coinciding with weekends and holidays. With the Labor Day weekend rapidly approaching, the agencies have reminded businesses to be especially vigilant, remain diligent about their network defences, and “engage in preemptive threat hunting on their networks to search for signs of threat actors.”

We now live in an online-first world, accelerated by the events of the pandemic in 2020. Fraudsters have taken advantage of these conditions, using automated bot attacks to prey on businesses and consumers. To quantify the devastating financial impact bots are having on businesses of all types, Netacea surveyed 440 businesses from across the USA and UK. Read the full results in our report: What Are Bots Costing Your Business?

Increasingly, companies are becoming aware of the importance of building threat detection and hunting capabilities that avoid putting their businesses at risk. Now more than ever, when it comes to both protecting enterprise cybersecurity and delivering effective IT security solutions and services, organizations and MSPs can no longer simply act when cyberattacks occur, but long before they even pose a threat.

Application security orchestration and correlation tools empower security teams to speed up the AppSec process without sacrificing quality. In its 2019 “Hype Cycle for Application Security” report, Gartner revealed a new, high-priority tool category called application security orchestration and correlation (ASOC). ASOC delivers three primary benefits to the AppSec process within organizations: efficiency, scalability, and accountability.

The Office of Management and Budget’s memo mandates a maturity model for event log management, sets agency implementation requirements, and establishes government-wide responsibilities. Fortunately, Splunk solutions can help agencies comply with the new mandates.

Does your Splunk app integrate with a third-party service or API? If so, that service might require your app’s users to authenticate using a secret. You can securely store and retrieve secrets in an app using the capabilities of the Splunk platform.