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Cyber threats are increasingly affecting universities and colleges in the USA. Institutions have experienced a surge in cyber attacks in recent years, including data breaches, ransomware attacks, phishing scams, and malware infections. One driving factor for this increase is the valuable data higher education institutions hold, including sensitive personal information of students, faculty members, and staff, as well as important research data and intellectual property.

CentOS 7 has been a popular choice for many businesses and developers due to its stability, robustness, and compatibility with enterprise-level applications. According to W3Techs, CentOS is used by 2.8% of all the websites whose operating system is known. However, as announced on the official CentOS blog, the end of life (EOL) for CentOS 7 is fast approaching. This means that after June 30, 2024, CentOS 7 will no longer receive official support, updates, or security patches.

The state of cybersecurity is in constant flux — meaning we must constantly iterate and revisit our systems to protect ourselves. With security logging and monitoring failures moving up to number 9 of the OWASP Top 10, organizations everywhere are revisiting their stance on network and application monitoring. This is great for getting a pulse check on security posture and is certainly key in any good strategy, but we might be forgetting something — IoT devices.

The Gartner 2021 Hype Cycle for Cloud reports 99% of breaches start with cloud misconfigurations. Thus, having a philosophy of protecting just traditional endpoints – servers, laptops, desktop PCs, and mobile devices – with EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) software is not enough. Sysdig has teamed up with multiple security organizations in the cloud security ecosystem to offer comprehensive security solutions.

Incorporating security into the software development lifecycle helps ensure the creation of secure and robust software applications from the very beginning. To further evolve our security offerings in the developer community, we announced our partnership with Atlassian to introduce Snyk Security in Jira Cloud as a part of the Security in Jira launch in June. Snyk started gradually rolling out the Jira Security App and has significantly improved the functionality and features available to users.