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To both understand and keep pace with evolving cybercriminal mindsets, many businesses are fighting fire with fire – in other words hiring hackers for help. In fact, large corporations such as Airbnb, PayPal and Spotify, recently revealed that they have willingly spent over £38M on ethical hackers to tighten their cyber defences and avoid crippling…
Read MoreAs the Chief Information Security Officer at F5, it is my pleasure to welcome you to F5 Labs’ CISO to CISO section. This is an arena for frank and transparent discussions on all aspects of running an information security program. We’ll discuss topics like technical guidance on mitigating specific risks, as well as broader perspectives…
Read MoreThen there are the technical questions that need to be answered. What data will be captured, shared, and processed? What mobile platforms will the app run on? What server-side platforms will it need to talk to? Internal platforms? Third-party services? You also need to dig into the questions of expectations and dependencies. How important will…
Read MoreIn part one, we laid out how we should react when our organization tells us they want to roll out a mobile app. Short answer: don’t say no, but instead ask lots of questions. After that, we built a threat model that includes the mobile-specific twists on traditional IT security problems. Using this model, we…
Read MoreWe’re finishing up our series on what to do when your organization tells you they want to roll out a mobile app. In part one, we asked lots of questions so we could do a thorough risk and requirements analysis. In part two, we used that information to define security requirements and ensure that we…
Read MoreIn many organizations, building and securing apps has typically been a siloed affair. The product owner, the network engineer, the developer and the security engineer all come from different teams. And all too often, these teams become fiefdoms that believe their focus is the company’s primary objective. Today with Agile and DevOps moving faster and…
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I know for a fact that Microsoft really does take security seriously, and most of the company is moving in the right direction. That said, the security problems revealed in the CSRB report are shocking and completely unacceptable for a technology company with the size, control, and power of Microsoft. Remember, too, that after intense…
Read MoreSecurity in the cloud has always followed a shared responsibility model. What the provider manages, the provider secures. What the customer deploys, the customer secures. Generally speaking, if you have no control over it in the cloud, then the onus of securing it is on the provider. Serverless, which is kind of like a SaaS-hosted…
Read MoreA vast majority of organisations have no visibility into encrypted traffic, nor do they have protection against automated attackers. In Mary Meeker’s most recent Internet Trends report, the numbers show that in the first quarter of 2019, 87 per cent of global web traffic was encrypted, up from 53 per cent just three years ago.…
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Apr 23, 2024NewsroomNational Security Agency / Threat Intelligence The Russia-linked nation-state threat actor tracked as APT28 weaponized a security flaw in the Microsoft Windows Print Spooler component to deliver a previously unknown custom malware called GooseEgg. The post-compromise tool, which is said to have been used since at least June 2020 and possibly as early…
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