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Privacy vs. Mobile Security: Why MSPs Don't Have to Choose

Jul 19, 2024 By Lookout In Lookout
When it comes to how employees get work done, personal devices are an ever-growing part of the equation. The 2023 Lookout State of Remote Work Security Report found that 92% of remote workers have performed work tasks on their personal mobile devices. While putting security controls on employer-owned devices is a no-brainer, the increasing overlap of personal with professional means that organizations need to think about how to secure employee-owned devices that are being used for work.
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5 common misconceptions about workflow automation

Jul 19, 2024 By Eoin Hinchy In Tines
The potential benefits of workflow automation for security teams are huge - from improved incident readiness to faster time to value, improved retention, and reduced errors, there lots of compelling reasons to adopt this technology. But there are also some popular misconceptions holding teams back from fully embracing workflow automation. In this blog post, I'll debunk some of the most common myths about workflow automation and explain why it's worth investing in for any security team.
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CrowdStrike Windows Outage

Jul 19, 2024 By Stripe OLT In Stripe OLT
Across the world, Windows computers have by effected the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). This appears to have been caused by an outage of services provided by cyber security provider, CrowdStrike, and has impacted a large number of organisations – from banks to airlines. According to recent announcements, “CrowdStrike is actively working with customers impacted by a defect found in a single content update for Windows hosts,” CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said on X.
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Forward Networks

One Faulty File: Global Disruption

Jul 19, 2024 By Chiara Regale In Forward Networks
As I write this, billions of users are looking at “the blue screen of death.” Flights are grounded around the world, 9-1-1 service is offline in the entire state of Alaska, hospitals can’t check in patients, retailers cannot make sales because their POS systems are down, Newark airport has reverted to paper tickets for check-in, and countless other organizations are at a standstill. This is the top story on every major news site I’ve checked. What could cause this carnage?
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A Brief History of Graduality

Jul 19, 2024 By Vadim Freger In Cato Networks
In the early hours of July 19th, 2024, CrowdStrike endpoints on Windows machines worldwide received a faulty content update, causing what is shaping up to be the one of the largest global IT outages to date. All over the world reports of Windows workstations and servers stuck in a boot loop with a BSOD were pouring in, impacting airlines, airports, banks, hospitals and many other critical infrastructures such as emergency services call centers, and the list goes on.
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CrowdStrike & Rubrik Customer Content Update Recovery For Windows Hosts

Jul 19, 2024 By Joshua Stenhouse In Rubrik
Joint customers utilizing Rubrik for immutable backup are recommended to utilize Rubrik in-place recoveries for impacted Windows VMware Virtual Machines (VMs), standard VM restores for Azure VMs, AWS EC2 instances, and live mounts for Hyper-V and AHV VMs. For VMware VMs this significantly reduces the recovery time by only recovering the changed blocks required to revert the VM to a snapshot before the 04:09 UTC CrowdStrike host update.
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Find And Remediate Secrets In Confluence Cloud With GitGuardian

Jul 19, 2024 By GitGuardian In GitGuardian
Good news! GitGuardian can now help you find and remediate secrets exposed in Confluence Cloud. We have helped thousands of teams remediate plaintext secrets in their codebases and tools like Jira and Slack. Now, we have extended the real-time detection capability of our platform to cover this popular wiki, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing platform. Once integrated, GitGuardian will alert you about plaintext credentials is accidentally posted to Confluence Cloud spaces, pages, blogs, and comments.
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Friday Flows episode 28: Sending an IOC to Recorded Future for Analysis

Jul 19, 2024 By Tines In Tines
On today's episode, Michael Tolan from the Tines labs team is taking us through this enrichment workflow. Recorded Future is our long-time threat intel partner and has been the leader in that space for years now. This will give you some insight into how we work better together.
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CrowdStrike Outage: Short-Term Actions and Strategic Priorities for the Future

Jul 19, 2024 By Derek Vadala In BitSight
As most in the industry are aware, a defective content update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon Sensor for Windows led to a global cascade of system outages affecting critical industry sectors such as transportation, banking, healthcare, and public safety. Many enterprises and government agencies around the world are still actively managing their response to this incident.
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