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New year, same old problems for Windows 10. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Earlier this month the United State’s National Security Agency (NSA) announced that they discovered a major vulnerability in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 that could have had dire consequences for businesses around the world. The vulnerability places Windows endpoints at risk to a broad range of exploitation vectors NSA official cybersecurity advisory

Barely a week after Patch Tuesday, internet security company Qihoo 360 has discovered yet another vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE), this time due to a remote code execution vulnerability in the jscript.dll scripting engine. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2020-0674, is considered Critical for IE 11, and Moderate for IE 9 and IE 10.

Beats are lightweight, purpose-built agents that acquire data and then feed it to Elasticsearch. Beats use the libbeat framework that makes it easy to create customized beats for any type of data you’d like to send to Elasticsearch. Auditbeat is a lightweight shipper from the Beats family that you can install on your servers to audit the activities of users and processes on your systems.

In order to determine the health and current state of your systems, monitoring by its very nature requires access to internal and external services. Traditionally, users have had to get creative in terms of how they expose sensitive information (secrets, like access credentials) to their monitoring tool; operators typically would leverage local environment variables or give up entirely by putting secrets in the monitoring configuration.

Sysdig, an industry leader for monitoring and security of cloud-native workloads, and IBM have joined forces to bring a fully Integrated powerful platform that delivers the security and performance that enterprises need in today’s multi-cloud world. Sysdig Secure and the IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management (MCM) can help you accelerate Kubernetes and cloud adoption by addressing security and regulatory compliance from the start on enterprise hybrid cloud environments.

A new cyberattack occurs roughly every 39 seconds. Each of these attacks leaves behind a variety of evidence, including IP addresses, log events and malicious files. This evidence can be incredibly valuable to security teams but only if it’s analyzed and placed in context. There is simply too much attack data from too many sources to be useful when data is in a raw format. Threat intelligence is the solution for making raw data actionable.

Hey there, While the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos always dominates the news agenda across a variety of topics I wondered what discussions around technology occurred this year, particularly from a cybersecurity perspective. During my reading, I came across the global risks report 2020 published by WEF and thought sharing some of the key points would help you in case you have to argue about the importance of cybersecurity.