The events of 2020 brought us unprecedented challenges that no one was prepared for, changing the way we live, work, and communicate, impacting the global economy, all geographic regions, and every single industry. In such a downturn cybercrime flourishes, especially when organizations move most of their operations and processes online.

We have witnessed major shifts in identity and verification industry as, post March 2020 a sudden explosion of people going digital was observed. It opened gates for vulnerability and opportunity for fraudsters. In April 2020, with a surge in work from home scenario- accelerated the process of administering remote systems and adequately protect them.

According to the FDA, 30 percent of clinical trials are flagged for data-integrity violations (i.e. missing source data and corrupted audit trails). The patchwork of evolving regulations, as well as relying on non-compliant consumer-grade technology to handle data collection and storage, are often hurdles in getting your raw data into a format that is submission-ready.

Modern cyber security threats have today mutated into a new class that is immune to detection and prevention solutions offered by the security industry. We are looking at this new generation of hackers that master zero-day exploits, credential thefts, fake identities, and developing stealthy malware. These threats have kept the security personnel on their toes, figuring out what the next attack would look like. One of these challenges includes identifying false positive and false negative alerts.

Defensics SDK makes fuzz testing possible for custom protocols. Learn how to create a custom injector using the Defensics SDK API. Fuzz testing is never a bad idea. If you aren’t testing your implementation with malformed or unexpected inputs, someone else may be able to exploit a weakness simply from running the system. And fuzz testing (or fuzzing) is not only about finding potential security issues—it can also increase the overall robustness of the system.

With a population of over 150,000, Redland City Council delivers municipal services to six residential islands spread along the southern coast of Moreton Bay in South-East Queensland between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Glynn Henderson, CIO, saw data as the lifeblood of his organisation. “We see our data as an incredibly important asset.

TL;DR: This blog contains some immediate guidance on using Splunk Core and Splunk Enterprise Security to protect (and detect activity on) your network from the Sunburst Backdoor malware delivered via SolarWinds Orion software. Splunk’s threat research team will release more guidance in the coming week. Also please note that you may see some malicious network activity but it may not mean your network is compromised. As always review carefully.

Moving to the cloud means a lot more than just moving your servers and applications to the cloud; it’s also about the data – and data always has a target on it. A lot of IT departments are finding that it’s easier to meet the “five nines” (99.999%) of uptime and availability by going outside their organization and letting AWS, Microsoft, or Google handle the infrastructure and personnel needed to meet those requirements.

2020 has been a very interesting year for the global workforce, with the vast majority of organizations having to rapidly transition to a remote workforce with little to no prior notice thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study looks at the effect of this transition to remote work and how organizations have fared. It also analyzes the impact of the pandemic and the resultant transition to remote work on cybersecurity professionals.