Last Summer, President Biden issued Executive Order 14028 to help boost and improve government cybersecurity operations in response to increased threats worldwide. Memorandum OMB-21-31 from the Office of Management and Budget soon followed, which explained the critical role data log collection and analysis play across all branches of the Federal Government.
More and more companies are using more and more open source. The stats I’ve seen say seventy to seventy-five percent of all applications use open source or have some type of open source associated with them. I think that number is actually higher. Of all the companies that I’ve worked for, just about every single application has some type of open source associated with it.
The popular saying “Keep Calm and Carry On” is a good mantra for any company that finds itself undergoing cyberattack, but what that pithy phrase does not mention is how one stays calm when a threat actor has locked down your system and is demanding a multimillion-dollar ransom?
From manufacturers in Michigan to fintechs in Finland, every business must comply with industry regulations — which are increasingly constraining. At the same time, businesses must protect and account for a growing number of systems, applications and data in order to remain compliant. In other words, compliance is getting harder. Enter log management. While regulations vary by country and industry, nearly every organization must store compliance-relevant information for a certain period of time.
Every day, thousands of developers use the Snyk CLI as part of their development workflow, to identify and resolve security issues in their code as early as possible. What if these developers and other security professionals could harness the power of this dev-first approach and also utilize entirely new security analyses, filters, and workflows via an extensible approach?
It’s been a busy start of the year for Vanta. We’ve made some major additions and improvements, such as our acquisition of Trustpage, as well as some exciting platform updates:
A truism about the free tools online is that if you aren’t paying for the service, then you are the product. Take your grocery store's “club” card program. You sign up and give them your name and phone number, and every time you shop, you swipe your card and get discounts on certain items. If you shop at the same store all the time, it makes total sense to take advantage of these discounts to save yourself some cash.
February 7th is the 20th Safer Internet Day, a day to focus on addressing ways to reduce the risks created by our now very online world. Painting the internet as an inherently dangerous place full of predators and … would be using too broad a brush. The internet is an amazing technology - an information sharing resource unrivaled in depth, breadth, and reach. Despite all the good, useful, and fun the internet brings, it has one major drawback: on the other end of the computer is a person.
Wireless devices on your home networks can include everything from PCs, phones and tablets to IP cameras, voice assistants, smart TVs and connected appliances. Simple precautions you take to secure your home WiFi network will help prevent cybercriminals from accessing your devices and stealing your data. You can secure your WiFi network by creating a separate guest WiFi network, turning on your router’s encryption, using a VPN for further protection and more.
