Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Monitoring user activity is crucial for maintaining a secure IT environment and complying with cybersecurity regulations. Ekran System is a comprehensive human-focused insider risk management platform for monitoring and managing user sessions. The platform lets you view user sessions to analyze employee and third party activity, meet compliance requirements, and protect your data and critical systems from insider threats.

We are excited to announce that BDRSuite v7.1.0 is now generally available! This latest release brings a host of new features, enhancements, and performance improvements designed to provide even more robust and efficient data protection for your IT environment. With BDRSuite v7.1.0, users can expect enhanced backup and recovery capabilities, greater ease of use, and increased reliability.

In this episode of the Trust Issues podcast, we explore the nexus of mindfulness, identity security and leadership with Jitender Arora, Partner and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Deloitte North and South Europe, and Deloitte’s Global Deputy CISO.

Node.js backend development continues to stand out in 2024 as a powerful and flexible runtime for building scalable and efficient applications, even more so with the rise of other runtimes such as Bun.

We’re excited to announce that Snyk has now developed an AWS Marketplace add-on for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), embedded directly into the AWS Management Console! Snyk joins a small number of approved ISVs around the globe, allowing customers to deploy a Snyk agent on Amazon EKS clusters using the same methods you would use to deploy native AWS services, either manually via the AWS Management Console or by using AWS’ command-line interface (CLI).

Cyberattacks are a growing threat, making it crucial for us to understand the tools and techniques available to secure applications. Today, we dive into the differences and similarities between Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) and Penetration Testing with insights from a Veracode industry expert and certified penetration tester, Florian Walter. DAST is an automated technique designed to identify security vulnerabilities in web applications and APIs during runtime.

Extended detection and response, better known as XDR, is a security technology that combines multiple point solutions, including but not limited to endpoint protection and endpoint security tools, into a unified incident detection and response platform. First described in 2018 by Palo Alto Networks' CTO Nir Zuk, XDR collects, correlates, and contextualises alerts from different solutions across endpoints, servers, networks, applications, and cloud workloads.

Many companies strive to achieve the best security possible. Along the path to improved security, many companies are also required to meet various compliance standards. In some cases, compliance is also a regulatory requirement. This crossroad between security and compliance can sometimes seem at odds with the organization’s goals. Compliance does not always equal security.

The Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report noted a 180% increase in exploited vulnerabilities over the previous year’s figures. The importance of keeping an up-to-date vulnerability management policy for remediating and controlling security vulnerabilities cannot be understated.

This is why email compliance and archiving solutions are pivotal for shielding your electronic correspondence and ensuring it’s safely stored, retrievable, and compliant with industry regulations. The adoption of such solutions is indispensable for both private and public companies that generate large data volumes, which require extensive storage and reliable backup options for the reasons we’ll explain below.