Getting a password manager is the ultimate minimalist move – after all, reducing the number of passwords you need to remember down to one is pretty significant. When we’re talking about digital minimalism we’re referring to the idea of simplifying your digital life to help you focus on the things that are truly important to you. A password manager is an important tool in any digital minimalist’s life and can help you achieve that organizational, zen-like happiness.

At the end of 2021, Capital One agreed to pay a settlement of $190 million to 98 million customers whose personal data was stolen in a 2019 data breach. Similar class-action lawsuits were filed in 2021 against T-Mobile, Shopify, and Ledger. When it comes to the cost of breaches, however, those are just the legal fees. Every year, businesses lose millions of dollars in revenue to cyberattacks and data breaches.

Cybersecurity is a very unique and niche career however, with this is the shortfall of skilled workers. In comparison to other roles, cybersecurity sees one of the largest gaps in its qualified workers; in 2021, it was estimated that there was a shortfall of around 3.5 million people. Cybersecurity also sees one of the biggest discrepancies in the female to male ratio in the workplace. In 2013, it was estimated that women in cyber security represent around 10% of the global cybersecurity workforce.

The world is in a tumultuous place at the time of this writing, with all eyes on the escalating ground war unfolding in Ukraine. As devastating as the news has been, cybersecurity observers are well aware of the unseen battles unfolding simultaneously in cyberspace. The importance of businesses, governments, and other organizations protecting vital systems and sensitive data has never faced such a stark context.

Expectations do not always line up with reality. If you’ve started using infrastructure as code (IaC) to manage your infrastructure, you’re already on your way to making your cloud provisioning processes more secure. But there’s a second piece to the infrastructure lifecycle — how do you know what resources are not yet managed by IaC in your cloud? And of the managed resources, do they remain the same in the cloud as when you defined them in code?

Recently, CVE-2022-0847 was created detailing a flaw in the Linux kernel that can be exploited allowing any process to modify files regardless of their permission settings or ownership. The vulnerability has been named “Dirty Pipe” by the security community due to its similarity to “Dirty COW”, a privilege escalation vulnerability reported in CVE-2016-5195, and because the flaw exists in the kernel pipeline implementation.

Home improvement retailers like Home Depot and Lowes are interesting places. Inside a typical store, one can find everyone from a guy looking to replace a leaky pipe, a couple shopping for new appliances, or a large contractor picking up hundreds of pieces of sheetrock for a major project. Trustwave's Security Colony is the cybersecurity version of a home improvement store. Security Colony is essentially a self-help site.

Alert overload is practically a given for security teams today. Analysts are inundated with new detections and events to triage, all spread across a growing set of disparate, disconnected security tools. In fact, they’ve burgeoned to such an extent that the average enterprise now has 45 cybersecurity-related tools deployed across its environment.