cybersecurity special report 2019 – SiliconANGLE

Security stakes rise for cloud providers as Google rolls out new protection tools

Mark Albertson — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:06:06 +0000

Whether it’s in response to concerns from large enterprise customers or from their own global threat intelligence, security is very much on the minds of top executives for the leading cloud providers these days. At the Amazon Web Services Summit in March, Amazon.com Inc Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels devoted a significant amount of time in his […]

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Automation and the cybersecurity skills gap: pitfalls and solutions

Pedram Amini — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:38:12 +0000

With a huge shortage in cybersecurity staff and automation alone unable to fill the gap, security operations centers need a new strategy. Government agencies and companies wage daily battles against sophisticated hackers and unexpected intrusions. A good security operations center should operate like a hospital emergency room where physicians rely heavily on the support of […]

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Survey finds security staff are switching to biometrics but need to do more

Duncan Riley — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 03:43:14 +0000

A study undertaken at the RSA security conference last week has found that security professionals are starting to switch to biometric authentication, but more needs to be done in the age of password hacking. Undertaken by security firm Veridium Ltd., the survey found that 56 percent of respondents rely on password managers to help them […]

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RSA Conference changes the face of cybersecurity

Jason Bloomberg — Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:47:08 +0000

Tens of thousands of security professionals and many hundreds of vendors came together at the massive RSA Conference in San Francisco last week for the largest enterprise cybersecurity confab in the world — and the general consensus was sobering. Bad actors have had the edge over enterprises – aka the “good guys” – for decades, and the only […]

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In the digital transformation era, multicloud data protection turns smoking hot

Peter Burris — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 05:58:44 +0000

This analysis is from Wikibon, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.’s market research firm. There’s much more analysis and research at Wikibon.com. Premise. Enterprises moving to the cloud must sustain necessary information technology capabilities. At the same time, digital business transformation increases the importance of some IT capabilities. Data protection, in particular, is an IT capability that becomes […]

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In harm’s way: Attacks on critical systems alarm the security world

Mark Albertson — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 03:09:57 +0000

One by one, power to homes, businesses, hospitals and transportation systems were shut down. It was Dec. 23, 2015, in the Ukraine and the nation’s electrical grid had been hacked. In the dead of winter. What events in the Ukraine revealed was that the world’s critical infrastructure was highly vulnerable to attack, both from outside […]

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Splunk’s security solution is a deep dive into the investigative lake

Mark Albertson — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 21:00:58 +0000

A case could be made that the current chaotic enterprise computing landscape offers firms such as Splunk Inc. a prime market opportunity. With so much surface area to protect, including multiple servers, endpoints and connected “internet of things” devices, managing the complex environment with logs in different formats is no easy task. Security in today’s enterprise […]

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Security built in: At RSA Conference, cybersecurity intersects with DevOps

James Kobielus — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 19:38:24 +0000

Cybersecurity is not a quick fix or a one-off remedy. To be effective, it needs to be built right into the application development, testing and release pipeline. As enterprises adopt DevOps practices for rapid application release, security is becoming one of the key outcomes that their developers must ensure. That’s because the faster you release […]

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NSA open-sources Ghidra, a tool for reverse-engineering malware

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 19:33:45 +0000

The annual RSA Conference in San Francisco draws thousands of cybersecurity experts from around the world, along with numerous corporate exhibitors that use the opportunity to spotlight their newest products. This year’s event, which kicked off on Wednesday, saw the National Security Agency join the chorus by open-sourcing an internal software analysis tool called Ghidra. […]

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Lack of skilled workers threatens enterprise security

Duncan Riley — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 14:00:06 +0000

A lack of skilled cybersecurity professions may soon lead to a crisis in enterprise security, according to a report released today by Tripwire Inc. The finding comes in a survey of 336 information technology security technology professionals undertaken by Dimension Research in February. Some 80 percent of respondents say it’s becoming more difficult to find skilled cybersecurity professionals. Highlighting the […]

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Microsoft: Iranian hackers have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage

Duncan Riley — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 02:17:49 +0000

A new report from Microsoft Corp. claims that Iranian hackers have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over the past two years. Allegedly state-sponsored, that is using hackers employed by the Iranian government, the hacking campaign is said to have targeted thousands of people in more than 200 companies. They stole corporate secrets […]

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What’s on my network? Forescout offers an agentless way to find out

Mark Albertson — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 23:06:43 +0000

When a person comes home, he or she probably wants to know fairly quickly if anyone else is inside and whether they’re friend or foe. The same is true for chief information officers who constantly ask: “What’s on my network?” As the number of “internet of things” devices connected to a network rises exponentially, so […]

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Google’s new Web Risk API protects apps from malicious URLs

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:00:04 +0000

Google LLC today added more security features to its cloud platform as it bids to stay one step ahead of cyberattackers who are constantly on the lookout for new targets to attack. The new features include the Web Risk application programming interface, which is a service for developers looking to provide safeguards within the applications […]

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Microsoft annual security report: Phishing up, ransomware attacks down

Duncan Riley — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 02:46:25 +0000

Phishing attacks were up in 2018 while ransomware attack were down are two keys findings from a new report from Microsoft Corp. detailing security trends. Microsoft’s annual Microsoft Security Intelligence Report Volume 24 analyzed data from 6.5 trillion security signals that go through the Microsoft cloud as well as gathered insights from thousands of security […]

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NTT acquires application security provider WhiteHat Security

Duncan Riley — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 02:18:16 +0000

NTT Security Corp., the security arm of Japanese telco giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. today said it will acquire application security provider WhiteHat Security Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2001 by former Yahoo information security officer Jeremiah Grossman, WhiteHat provides solutions for website security. With a cloud-based service, the company offers a vulnerability management platform along with […]

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Chinese hackers allegedly targeted U.S. universities to access naval secrets

James Farrell — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 01:55:22 +0000

Chinese hackers targeted at least 27 universities mainly in the U.S. in an effort to access maritime technology being developed for the military, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. Most the institutions were in the U.S., but the report stated that attacks were also found at universities in Canada and South […]

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At RSA Conference, look for ‘post-perimeter’ security to dominate

James Kobielus — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 20:03:55 +0000

In the multicloud, the edge presents the weakest security link — hence the most promising target for hackers. Locally acquired, processed and stored data exposes edge devices to never-ending security intrusions. Device-based artificial intelligence thrives on that and other data, including content that is fetched from the cloud or ingested dynamically from other edge devices. […]

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In the cyber arms race, humans will replace computers in the crosshairs

Mark Albertson — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 19:22:04 +0000

Like a supercharged car powering up a steep mountain, cybersecurity threats have shifted into another gear. In the beginning, when “script kiddies” tapping on rudimentary computers in their parents’ basements would break into websites and deface them, attacks were a nuisance and not much more. As major businesses began to use the internet for transactional […]

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Expanding its cybersecurity portfolio, VMware launches a firewall

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:36:29 +0000

Adding to the flurry of product announcements coming out of the RSA Conference this week in San Francisco, VMware Inc. today introduced a firewall offering designed to provide an added layer of security for enterprise applications. The new Service-defined Firewall builds on two of the company’s existing products. One is the NSX network management and […]

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Reimagining agile security for multicloud at RSA Conference 2019

Kylie Anderson — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:00:18 +0000

Cybersecurity has historically been a point of hesitation when migrating data to cloud computing environments, and the concern is not without merit. Traditional data protection is rooted in firewalls and hardened perimeters, with a primary objective of keeping bad actors out. But the proliferation of multiple cloud platforms and microservices from major players such as […]

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Alphabet X alumni Chronicle exits stealth with cloud security offering

Duncan Riley — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 03:24:33 +0000

Chronicle LLC, an Alphabet Inc. X spinoff company, today emerged from stealth mode with its first product: Backstory, a cloud security data and threat intelligence platform. Described as “Google Photos for business’ network security” by Chronicle Chief Executive Officer Stephen Gillett, Backstory is claimed to be the “first global security telemetry platform designed for a […]

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Comcast buys AI-based cybersecurity firm BluVector

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 02:18:58 +0000

Telecommunications giant Comcast Corp. announced at the RSA Security conference Monday it’s acquiring a cybersecurity startup called BluVector Inc. BluVector sells products that help enterprises to detect and analyze potential security threats to their information technology infrastructure. The company, which was spun off two years ago from the defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., uses artificial […]

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Massive macOS vulnerability exposed by Google security researchers

Duncan Riley — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 02:13:10 +0000

It’s often claimed that Apple Inc. products are safe from hacking, but even though that has been proven to be false time and time again, a new vulnerability has emerged that suggests threats have graduated from a soldier with a gun to a B-52 dropping a large bomb. Discovered by Google LLC’s Project Zero security […]

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In cybersecurity, it’s AI vs. AI: Will the good guys or the bad guys win?

Paul Gillin — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 15:50:43 +0000

Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI last month made the unusual announcement: It had built an AI-powered content creation engine so sophisticated that it wouldn’t release the full model to developers. Anyone who works in cybersecurity immediately knew why. Phishing emails, which try to trick recipients into clicking malicious links, originated 91 percent of all cyberattacks […]

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With Azure Sentinel, Microsoft seeks bigger slice of cybersecurity market

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:36:30 +0000

Microsoft Corp. today expanded its presence in the cybersecurity market with the introduction of Azure Sentinel, a cloud-based threat detection service for enterprises. Azure Sentinel is what’s known as a security information and event management platform, or SIEM for short. SIEM products enable companies to centrally analyze activity data from different systems to look for […]

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Cybercriminals make $3.25B+ a year using social media

Duncan Riley — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 03:17:00 +0000

As bad as content such as anti-vaccine material on Facebook Inc. or alleged suicide instruction videos on YouTube look, a new report out today details an even more nefarious use of social media: the promotion of cybercrime tools. The report, “Social Media Platforms and the Cybercrime Economy” from malware protection firm Bromium Inc., explores how cybercriminals […]

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New Cloudborne vulnerability exposes cloud servers to potential hacking

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:03:01 +0000

A newly disclosed security vulnerability may enable hackers to exploit a common component of server motherboards to compromise data companies store in the cloud. The vulnerability, dubbed Cloudborne, was detailed today by Andreessen Horowitz-backed security startup Eclypsium Inc. It affects the so-called baseboard management controllers that commonly ship with servers motherboards, including those used by cloud […]

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Report finds a rapid rise in politically motivated online attacks

Duncan Riley — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 12:30:37 +0000

New research from NetScout Systems Inc. details a rapid rise in politically motivated online attacks across the private, nonprofit and government sectors. The “Dawn of the TerrorBit Era” report looked at security data in the second half of 2018 and came up with some surprising finds as nation-state actors ramp up campaigns. In particular, the report […]

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Continuing acquisition streak, Palo Alto Networks shells out $560M for Demisto

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:04:38 +0000

Network protection giant Palo Alto Networks Inc. is acquiring Demisto Inc., a startup that uses chatbots and machine learning to help cybersecurity teams work more efficiently. The deal, announced today, is worth $560 million. Palo Alto Networks expects to complete the acquisition by the end of April and plans to continue offering Demisto’s software on […]

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Google pitches ‘confidential computing’ challenge to boost cloud security

Robert Hof — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 17:00:47 +0000

There are plenty of ways to secure data while it’s sitting in databases and while it’s winging around networks, even if the means remain far from perfect. But what about when the data is being actively used in cloud applications and services? That particular state of data is what the emerging concept of “confidential computing” […]

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