Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

If you discover you are a victim of credit card fraud, start the recovery process by notifying your credit card issuer, placing a fraud alert on your credit report, freezing your credit and contacting the three major credit bureaus. However, before taking these steps, you should determine if you are in fact a victim of credit card fraud.

Cloud environments comprise hundreds of thousands of individual components, from infrastructure-level containers and hosts to access-level user and cloud accounts. With this level of complexity, it’s important to establish and maintain end-to-end visibility into your environment for many reasons—not least among them to efficiently identify, prioritize, and mitigate security threats.

As organizations increasingly adopt continuous delivery practices and deploy code as often as every few seconds, the number of vulnerabilities in your code and the potential for them to go undetected increases. Not knowing which vulnerabilities to focus on can be extremely costly—both in terms of the resources needed to address them as well as the risk they pose for your system.

As organizations increase the size of their cloud footprint and the complexity of their applications, they face challenges securing their infrastructure and services. Security breaches often go undetected for months, giving attackers time to do extensive harm. Once organizations become aware of a breach, they may no longer have access to the logs that comprise a complete history of the attack, because the time span easily exceeds their log retention window.

An information security management system (ISMS) is a broad term that encompasses an organization’s information security policies, practices, and procedures regarding information security and how these are assessed, optimized, and implemented over time. An ISMS aims to ensure all risks are mitigated and that all risk management processes work effectively.

Washington’s My Health My Data Act (MHMD Act) regulates businesses and service providers that process or collect consumer health data from state residents. The act’s broad definition of “health data” carries compliance implications for a wide range of entities, including many that fall outside the scope of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

The microservices architecture provides developers and DevOps engineers significant agility that helps them move at the pace of the business. Breaking monolithic applications into smaller components accelerates development, streamlines scaling, and improves fault isolation. However, it also introduces certain security complexities since microservices frequently engage in inter-service communications, primarily through HTTP-based APIs, thus broadening the application’s attack surface.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules last week that require companies listed on the US Stock Exchange to disclose any material cybersecurity incidents. In addition to reporting incidents, companies are also required to describe their approach to cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance on an annual basis.

With the SEC's adoption of new rules on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure by public companies, one thing is clear: better definitions are required.