I worry that a lot of my blog posts reveal that I’m getting older and older as the days go by, but I wanted to talk about teasmades and security automation. For those of you outside of the UK, and even those born in the UK within the past 30 years, there’s a distinct possibility you may read this and consider it to be a made-up word, but there is indeed such a thing as a teasmade – effectively a small machine for making tea that has a timer on it.

In the rapidly evolving world of container security, staying ahead of threats and keeping abreast of vulnerabilities is crucial. Calico Cloud continues to lead the way with new capabilities designed to enhance security posture, reduce noise, and improve operational efficiency for Security and DevOps teams. Here’s a comprehensive look at how these enhancements can impact your security posture and streamline your operations.

If you’ve realized your bank account got hacked, you are most likely panicked and want to secure your finances as soon as possible. You may even be wondering how something like this could have happened to you. Your bank account could have gotten hacked due to various cyber attacks, including brute force, phishing, SIM swapping, credit card skimming or Man-in-the-Middle (MITM).

To platform or not to platform. That is the question. At least, that’s the question that businesses increasingly face as they chart strategies for managing external risk and consider cybersecurity platform consolidation. Historically, the go-to approach for identifying and mitigating external risks was to adopt point solutions – meaning individual tools that focused on doing one thing and doing it well.

If you’ve worked in the Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) industry for a while, you might remember the era when the MSSP tool set consisted only of internal risk management solutions – like software that scanned client endpoints and application source code. Those days are gone. Today, external risk management has become just as critical a part of an MSSP’s job.

If you’re in the Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) business, landing new customers is great. What’s even better, however – and more crucial for long-term business success – is retaining existing customers. After all, keeping customers can cost up to 25 times less than acquiring new ones, according to Harvard Business Review.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a US government agency that develops standards and guidelines for cybersecurity and technology. The purpose of these guidelines is to protect sensitive information, especially for those companies working with the government.