An Ohio-based DNA testing company reported to regulators that the information of more than 2.1 million individuals contained in a legacy database was accessed and acquired in a hacking incident detected in August. The archived database contained personal information collected more than a decade ago.
A Microsoft zero-day vulnerability has not been fixed by the technology giant despite having been reported months ago, according to a security researcher. To protect users, a micropatching service, 0patch, has issued unofficial, free patches.
In her latest book, "Rhetoric of InSecurity: The Language of Danger, Fear and Safety in National and International Contexts," academic Victoria Baines questions the imagery and rhetoric we use to communicate safety and security issues, and details their unwelcome impact on the workforce.
Japanese multinational conglomerate Panasonic has disclosed a security breach that it says involved unnamed threat actors accessing servers on its network. The company says it detected the breach on Nov. 11. It was determined that some data on a file server had been accessed during the intrusion.
A new playbook, commissioned by the Food and Drug Administration, aims to help medical device manufacturers in developing and evolving threat modeling as an approach to strengthening the cybersecurity and safety of their products.
Forrester's Sandy Carielli and Jeff Pollard discuss their latest research, Predictions 2022: Cybersecurity, Risk and Privacy, which highlights the need for gaps in third-party relationships, collaboration and trust to be addressed.
There is a safer and potentially more profitable way to
conduct business along the manufacturing enterprise –
and the funny thing is it has been here all the time.
By applying API RP 754 and extending it with edge
analytics, it is possible for manufacturers to create a process safety
management dashboard...
Mobile and distributed users accessing data center applications, web apps, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, and websites
from outside the perimeter are now the rule, rather than the exception. Full of potential, these new working habits offer
tremendous benefits for end-users and for business continuity....
SASE adoption is being driven by numerous factors, including the opportunity to address the challenges with unmanaged applications and devices, provide greater visibility into various tasks, and ensure consolidation of investments in the networking infrastructure to bring down the administrative cost, according to a...
The enterprise work environment has forever shifted to a highly-distributed model of users, data,
apps, and service. Without signs of this perimeterless evolution abating, organizations are now
reckoning with how to adapt their “best of breed” on-premises security approach to the cloudcentric
nature of...
Zero trust approaches are arguably more relevant than ever due to the increasingly distributed nature of the modern enterprise.
Whether implementing least-privilege tenets for user access or securing the connections to and between the disparate aspects of
today’s hybrid multi-cloud deployments, zero trust can...
Securing operational technology (OT) systems for critical
infrastructure requires identifying and tracking a complete inventory
of all OT and IT endpoints. Only with a comprehensive inventory
that includes configuration data can companies protect against
unauthorized change, achieve compliance, mitigate risk...
When a large oil company moved to the US from Canada, they also embarked on an IAM modernization
and integration project. Because their business model included future M&As, the goal was to create a
foundation to support integration of business entities with disparate identity infrastructures so that they
could...
From the IT perspective, it’s harder than ever to manage the unending requests from the business side. Moving to the cloud, adding new applications, integrating new partners, securing new devices—business needs keep piling up, and it all needs to be done yesterday. Before you know it, IT has become the bottleneck...
This Aite-Novarica Group white paper, commissioned by Radiant Logic, examines the
toll enterprises pay due to identity sprawl and introduces Radiant Logic’s Identity Data
Fabric approach to support identity unification and simplification.
Key takeaways from this research include:
Financial services companies...
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