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Pilar Schenk, a former Dell EMC, McAfee and Cisco top sales and operations veteran, is now Amazon Web Servies’ new vice president of global sales. Here’s what her roles were at her former companies. One of Cisco’s key COOs, Pilar Schenk, has left the networking giant to join AWS as its new vice president of…
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Recent cloud security guidance from CISA and the NSA offers a wealth of recommendations to help organizations reduce risk. This blog highlights key takeaways, provides further insights from CIS, and explores how utilizing cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud-native application protection program (CNAPP) solutions/services from Tenable can help. This past spring, Tenable reported that…
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Security leaders face the challenge of managing a vast, interconnected attack surface, where traditional approaches to managing cyber risk are no longer sufficient. Modern threats exploit vulnerabilities across domains, requiring a more holistic approach to avoid operational disruption, safety risks and financial losses. In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, security leaders face an unprecedented challenge:…
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HACKING 101 BY NO STARCH PRESS Now that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over, you may still be searching for some great deals. If so, you’ll hardly find a better deal than this one. Humble Bundle has teamed up with the great tech publisher, No Starch Press, to offer deeply discounted hacking e-books for…
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An important step toward securing the Internet was achieved on December 4, 2020, when President Trump signed an IoT security bill into law. The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 has been in the works since 2017 and was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in September 2020 and the U.S. Senate…
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This Week In Cybersecurity This week on Between The Hacks: A dental data breach, the U.S. IoT Security Law, a 2020 Microsoft vulnerability report, the final sunset of Adobe Flash, Rebooting by Lisa Forte and the Smashing Security Christmas party. One Million US Dental Patients Impacted by Data Breach Dental Care Alliance (DCA), a Sarasota,…
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By now you have probably heard about the SolarWinds supply-chain compromise that has impacted government and businesses all over the world. This story is still unfolding so I won’t try to explain everything in detail, rather, I’ll attempt to explain the situation for the less-technical reader and link to some resources so that you can…
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Crime Dot Com Crime Dot Com is a book about cybercrime by Geoff White. In the book, White takes the reader on a historic journey of cybercrime starting with stories from the early days of the tech industry to modern-day hacks. The book is interesting, informative and a must read for cybersecurity professionals and enthusiasts…
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Between The Hacks! Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza or Festivus, we hope you and your family are doing well, staying healthy and surviving 2020. This is a very popular year to shop online so here are some tips to help keep you secure while exchanging that questionable gift…
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2020 was a difficult year and Between The Hacks wants to congratulate everyone who pulled through the challenges. We have all lived through a year that delivered a global pandemic, civil unrest, and a controversial political divide. The lucky people got to work from home, the unlucky lost their jobs. We had to stay virtually…
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