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Could Universities' Use of Surveillance Software Be Putting Students at Risk?

Life for university students has changed massively during the coronavirus pandemic, as it has for all of us. While some in-person lectures and seminars are still taking place, there has been a big shift to remote learning. This has, perhaps understandably, led to concerns about how well students are engaging with this way of studying. Many universities have sought to address this by turning to remote monitoring tools to track students’ online activities.

CISO Insider S1E1 - "Cybersecurity is a mindset" with Ty Sbano, Part 1

At Nightfall, we believe in the power of learning from those who have done it before. That’s why we created CISO Insider — a podcast interview series that features CISOs and security executives with a broad set of backgrounds, from hyper-growth startups to established enterprises. Through these interviews, we’ll learn how industry experts overcame obstacles, navigated their infosec careers, and created an impact in their organizations.

Increase in Cybersecurity Threats in Healthcare

Technology plays a crucial role in the operation of today’s healthcare service organization. Many hospitals are increasing use of modern technologies like mobile computing and cloud services to improve care delivery, resulting in far-reaching impact for doctors and administrators. At the same time, the current COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted almost every aspect of life. The situation has accelerated the adoption of virtual care to stay relevant during the pandemic.

Smoothing the Bumps of Onboarding Threat Indicators into Splunk Enterprise Security

This blog is part two of Splunk's Sunburst Backdoor response aimed at providing additional guidance to our customers (you can read part one, "Using Splunk to Detect Sunburst Backdoor," by Ryan Kovar). In this blog, we’ll cover how to ingest threat indicators to combat Sunburst Backdoor in Splunk Enterprise Security (ES).

Top 5 Employee Monitoring Software For 2021

Employee Monitoring is the process of tracking employee activities such as app use, internet browsing, email communications, file transfers etc. An employee monitoring solution allows a business to keep an eye on its users so that they cannot put the organization in harm’s way intentionally or accidentally by leaking sensitive data, sabotage, fraud, theft or other miscreants.

ZenGRC Demonstrates Industry Leadership with 15 Consecutive Quarters of Recognition on G2 Winter 2020 Grid Report for GRC Platforms

SAN FRANCISCO – December 16, 2020 – Reciprocity, the company behind ZenGRC, the industry-leading information security risk and compliance solution, today announced ZenGRC has earned two badges on the G2 Winter 2020 Grid Report. This marks the 15th consecutive quarter ZenGRC has been recognized by G2 in its quarterly report. G2 is a peer-to-peer business solutions review website, leveraging customer feedback to rank the best business software and services.

Contact Form 7 (5.3.1 & below) Vulnerable To Unrestricted File Upload

Before you start reading the description, please log in to your WordPress Admin panel & update all the plugins. Contact Form 7 version 5.3.1 and below were found to be vulnerable to unrestricted file upload vulnerability. This issue has been reported by security researchers at Astra Security. By exploiting this vulnerability, attackers could simply upload files of any type, bypassing all restrictions placed regarding the allowed uploadable file types on a website.

Integrate Datadog Compliance Monitoring with your AWS Well-Architected workloads

Many of our customers rely on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework as a guide to build safe, secure, and performant applications in the cloud. AWS offers the Well-Architected Review (WAR) Tool as a centralized way to track and trend adherence to Well-Architected best practices. It allows users to define workloads and answer a set of questions regarding operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

2021 Cybersecurity in healthcare

Breaches and cyberattacks are on the rise in the healthcare industry. The recent acceleration of digital technology and connectivity within Healthcare has led to significant patient care delivery improvements, more effective population health management, and better patient outcomes. With this increased technology and connectivity, however, comes increased exposure to cyberattacks that can impact patient care delivery, safety, and privacy.