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Are You in Sync with Your Security Vendor?

In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, the relationship between a security vendor and its customer is more critical than ever. As information security professionals, the pressure to ensure robust security postures is constant. Yet, the tools and services relied upon often fall short due to a fundamental disconnect between vendors and their customers.

Is Apple's Passwords App Safe?

Apple’s new Passwords app is only as secure as your device since it can be accessed using your phone’s passcode. If you have an easy-to-guess passcode, such as one with four digits, consecutive numbers or personal details like your birthday, it places your passwords at a greater risk of being accessed by an unauthorized person. A standalone password manager, like Keeper does not permit vault login with a passcode.

A Step-by-Step Guide to DORA Finance Compliance: Practical Advice for Financial Institutions

In the previous post, we explained what the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) is and why it’s crucial for financial institutions and meeting their financial compliance requirements. Now, let’s dive into the steps you need to take to ensure your organisation is fully prepared by the January 2025 deadline.

Cybersecurity Compliance for IT: Key Regulatory Frameworks and Standards

Cybersecurity compliance is crucial for protecting sensitive data and ensuring adherence to global security compliance standards. Protegrity’s comprehensive data security solutions, such as tokenization and dynamic data masking, empower organizations to safeguard their sensitive PII while allowing specific data sets to be protected and maintain compliance with regulations like GDPR, HIPAA rules and regulations, and PCI-DSS.

Container Security Best Practices

Containers are transforming how enterprises deploy and use applications - their efficiency and cost-effectiveness making them a cornerstone of modern IT strategies. Compared to traditional virtualization, where the server runs a hypervisor, and then virtual machines with entire guest operating systems and software run on top of the hypervisor, containers allow more versatility since they simplify management and provide faster provisioning of applications and resources.

Key learnings from the 2024 State of Cloud Security study

We’ve just released the 2024 State of Cloud Security study, where we analyzed the security posture of thousands of organizations using AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. In particular, we found that: In this post, we provide key recommendations based on these findings, and we explain how you can use Datadog Cloud Security Management (CSM) to improve your security posture.

How Datadog can support your DORA compliance strategy and operational resilience

Reliable access to financial data is critical for organizations and individual consumers alike, making resiliency key for financial institutions responsible for managing this information. While cloud computing can strengthen your app’s resiliency, it can also open up new security risks and require more complex continuity planning.

Preventing Breaches Using Indicators of Compromise

The story of cybersecurity involves bad actors and security professionals constantly trying to thwart each other, often using newer and more advanced measures in an attempt to outdo each other. In recent years, especially, cybercriminals have evolved to include sophisticated technology and advanced tactics in their attacks.

Cybersecurity at Ports Gets a Boost with New Bipartisan Bill

Cybersecurity's role in geopolitics is growing more significant by the day. In a world of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, governments worldwide are recognizing the impact digital attacks can have on national security, trade, and infrastructure. This has never been more evident than with the recent introduction of the Protecting Investments in Our Ports Act by U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Gary Peters (D-MI), along with U.S.

Reducing the Fog of War by Increasing Cybersecurity Readiness

A unique attribute of the current commercial and public sector is the convergence of warfare principles with information technology operations and security. In the realm of modern warfare, uncertainty is a constant companion. The term “fog of war,” coined by the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, encapsulates the chaos and unpredictability inherent in military operations.