A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, is an illegal attempt to make a website unavailable by overloading its server with high amounts of fake traffic. The onslaught of malicious connection requests places legitimate visitors at the back of an undiminishing traffic queue which prevents the website from loading.

Software security is a big focus of the Biden administration’s recent executive order on cybersecurity. In fact, an entire section, or 25 percent, of the order is dedicated to software security requirements. In the wake of the SolarWinds cyberattack, the security of the software supply chain is clearly top of mind at the White House, and has prompted these unprecedented and detailed security requirements for any software vendor looking to do business with the federal government.

Responding to the all too familiar news of compromised Amazon cloud storage, security researchers have begun leaving “friendly warnings” on AWS S3 accounts with exposed data or incorrect permissions. The misconfiguration of access control on AWS storage “buckets” has been behind numerous high profile data breaches, including Verizon, The Pentagon, Uber and FedEx.

Amazon’s, Google’s and Microsoft’s experiences with building massive infrastructures for the world allows for some fascinating insights into the future of IT security at scale. As a result, when Google published The CISO’s Guide to Cloud Security Transformation earlier this year, I was curious about what priorities they saw in cloud security. It’s a short read, and it’s well worth the time invested in downloading a copy.

In our recent infographic we reported that almost 1 in 6 construction companies reported a ransomware attack in the past year so, yes, ransomware is a serious problem for construction companies. The question then becomes: why are construction and engineering companies being targeted with such frequency? For two reasons; first is a distributed workforce.

When it comes to malware attacks, one of the more common techniques is “living off the land” (LOtL). Utilizing standard tools or features that already exist in the target environment allows these attacks to blend into the environment and avoid detection. While these techniques can appear normal in isolation, they start looking suspicious when observed in the parent-child context. This is where the ProblemChild framework can help.

The Irish High Court, Ireland's data privacy watchdog, has won a legal fight over Facebook's data flows between the EU and the US. When the EU-US Privacy Shield was ruled insufficient in protecting the privacy of EU data subjects last year, many companies were left in an uncomfortable state of limbo waiting. Any organization moving data about EU residents from the EU to the US has been in the dark on whether they were still in compliance.

Synopsys’s world-class application security products, services, and the recently released Intelligent Orchestration can help you build secure, high-quality, resilient software faster. But no single vendor can provide solutions for all the challenges a company faces today. Firms need partners to solve the myriad business challenges they face. Synopsys Technology Alliance Partner program partners with the technology industry’s leading organizations to create joint customer value.

Enterprises are undergoing a dizzying pace of digital transformation. For many organizations, real-time analytics and insights are critical to the success of their transformation, and SAP HANA has become their database of choice, making their protection a must. While SAP HANA provides a rich ecosystem of native backup and recovery tools to specialist DBAs, they are often not accessible by the backup and infrastructure teams.

Unplanned downtime and data loss caused by natural disasters and modern cyber threats represent some of the most challenging events facing organizations today. Maintaining capabilities to reduce or eliminate impact in these scenarios is critical to any business continuity plan. Organizational resilience depends upon being able to protect and ensure the recoverability of data and services wherever and whenever disaster strikes.