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The Importance of Application Control

In today's digital age, organizations face a constant barrage of cyber threats, with unauthorized applications posing a significant risk to their security and operations. Traditional security measures are no longer sufficient to protect against the sophisticated attacks that target vulnerabilities within applications and endpoints.

What's new in .NET 9: Cryptography improvements

.NET 9 is releasing in mid-November 2024. Like every.NET version, this introduces several important features and enhancements aligning developers with an ever-changing development ecosystem. In this blog series, I will explore critical updates in different areas of.NET. For today's post, I'll present some improvements to Cryptography.

Pen Testing Tools: What They Are And How to Choose the Best One

Cybersecurity threats continue to grow more sophisticated, making penetration testing an essential part of any organization’s security strategy. Penetration testing tools, or "pen testing" tools, help identify and exploit vulnerabilities in your systems, networks, and applications. They are a proactive way to address weaknesses before malicious actors can take advantage. However, selecting the right one can be overwhelming with so many available tools.

Using Kosli attest in Github Actions Workflows - Some Do's and Don'ts

The heart of Kosli’s functionality lies in its attest command. Think of it as a digital notary for your CI process. Every time you complete a significant step in your pipeline (e.g., a security scan, a build, a deployment, etc) you use kosli attest to create an immutable record of that event. However, integrating Kosli into your existing CI workflow isn’t always straightforward. You might find yourself grappling with questions like.

Implementing Granular Access Controls in the Modern Data Landscape

As the volume of sensitive data continues to increase in today's business environment, so do data breaches and compliance concerns. According to Harvard Business Review, in 2023, there was an upward shoot in data breaches fueled by cyberattacks targeting poorly secured access systems. For secure data, the granular access control concept has become a go-to strategy that enables better precision. It ensures that only the subject (user or group) is allowed to access certain data, minimizing the chances of unauthorized access.

Enhancing Healthcare Workforce Readiness Against Cybersecurity Risks

With increased digitization in healthcare organizations, there is an added risk of cybersecurity threats that may jeopardize patients' data and overall operations. The World Economic Forum has rated healthcare among the top three sectors most vulnerable in terms of cyberattacks, demanding urgent attention in approaches toward cybersecurity strategies.

How EASM Discovers Your Attack Surface Vulnerabilities

With few exceptions, businesses of any scale depend on the internet. So, it’s all-important to manage and protect the external attack surface it presents to the world. An organization's external attack surface consists of the totality of possible entry points through which an unauthorized user can access an IT environment. This includes everything from websites, web applications and APIs to remote access points and cloud services.

Feature Friday #31: Seeing a data structure with storejson()

Ever need to visualize the data your working with? storejson() to the rescue! Let’s re-visit our example for sys.os_release from Feature Friday: Special variables: So, we saw the value of a single key, but if we don’t know what keys are available it can be useful to render the JSON representation. The with attribute in combination with storejson() provides a convenient way to visualize the JSON representation of structured data in CFEngine.

C1 Unveils Advanced Technology Solutions to Help Businesses and Organizations Modernize Core IT - Networking, Security, Communications

BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Oct. 10, 2024 -- C1, the global technology solution provider elevating connected human experiences, has unveiled a suite of innovative solutions designed to enable organizations to modernize communications without risk, enhance network performance and resiliency, and strengthen security programs. These critical new capabilities are deployed and managed by C1's managed and professional services, which accelerate time to value at a significantly lower cost.