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Symantec Discovers Fourth Malware Strain Used in SolarWinds Attack
Cybersecurity firm Symantec has uncovered an additional piece of malware used in the SolarWinds attacks, becoming the fourth piece of malware associated with the wide-ranging compromise of the popular IT management software. Symantec is calling this malware “Raindrop,” which is “a loader that delivers a payload of Cobalt Strike,” the company wrote in a blog post. […]
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Symantec: Confidence in a Connected World
Symantec Enterprise Security products are now part of Broadcom. Symantec Corporation provides security and information management solutions. The Company operates its business on a global civilian cyber intelligence threat network and tracks various threats across the Internet from mobile devices, endpoints, and servers across the world. It is developing solutions for cloud, threat protection, information […]
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Qlik: Fast visual analytics for business intelligence
Qlik delivers intuitive platform solutions for self-service data visualization, guided analytics applications, embedded analytics and reporting to approximately 40,000 customers worldwide. Companies of all sizes, across all industries and geographies, use Qlik solutions to visualize and explore information, generate insight and make better decisions. Qlik optimizes Business Intelligence (BI) by harnessing the collective intelligence of […]
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Global Cyber Alliance Release: Perhaps the most important of the 2018 RSA Conference Season
Every year the RSA conference brings together members of the cybersecurity community for a week of presentations, discussions, tech demos and socials. Concurrent with the event there is always a flurry of press releases. Many are designed to highlight a company’s product or service. Many, like the announcement of the new Microsoft led coalition of […]
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How Do I select a Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB)?
Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) have been hot for the last 5 years. But how do you select a CASB? It has gotten to the point where every firm is either using one, evaluating one, or studying how to use them. This makes sense, since any successful cloud transition strategy should including appropriate attention being […]
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Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee and Symantec Found the Cyber Threat Alliance
In what could be a very virtuous trend, four of the cyber security industry’s leading tech vendors (Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee and Symantec) have established a consortium focused on the furtherance of the art and science of cyber threat intelligence. This alliance, started in May and expanded in September, aims to help industry entities […]
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Leon Panetta Warns of Cyber Pearl Harbor: and a CTO gives him a polite earful
Leon Panetta spoke today at the Symantec government conference in DC. No matter what your politics are, I hope you see this man as a great American who always puts country above himself. I believe that. He has spent his entire adult life proving that. He is a fantastic speaker. He held the attention of […]
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It’s Time To Get Serious About Big Data Security
Over the last few years, we have witnessed a substantial amount of buzz about Big Data, and we have seen the large-scale adoption of Big Data analytics solutions. Organizations are collecting and analyzing massive amounts of data in a way that most were unable to do ten years ago. Pattern recognition, non-obvious relationship detection, graph […]
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Meet the new Cyber Czar (a Putin pal who fights to limit US Cyber interests)
Friend and writer Noah Shachtman has produced a nice piece for Wired Magazine titled “Russia’s Top Cyber Sleuth Foils US Spies, Helps Kremlin Pals” Most all in the cyber security and national security communities have heard about Kaspersky and I imagine you have familiarity with his software and company and connections to Russian intelligence services. […]
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Passwords Suck: Learn about and use multi-factor authentication
Passwords suck. They are long, hard to remember (even if you have easier-to-remember phrases), moreso when new, and are largely a difficulty for users to user properly. Combined with the fact that many users choose easy-to-guess or easy-to-ascertain passwords based off of commonly-known facts about themselves and that they will try all of their passwords […]