Tag: Help Net Security

Portainer: Open-source Docker and Kubernetes management

Portainer Community Edition is an open-source, lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications. It enables the management of Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, and ACI environments. It provides a smart GUI and a comprehensive API to manage your orchestrator resources, including containers,…

Why every company needs a DDoS response plan

In this Help Net Security interview, Richard Hummel, Senior Threat Intelligence Manager at NETSCOUT, discusses how companies can overcome the challenges of identifying and mitigating DDoS attacks. He stresses the need for adaptive, multilayered defense strategies and the inevitability of…

Preparing for Q-Day as NIST nears approval of PQC standards

Q-Day—the day when a cryptographically relevant quantum computer can break most forms of modern encryption—is fast approaching, leaving the complex systems our societies rely on vulnerable to a new wave of cyberattacks. While estimates just a few years old suggested…

Infosec products of the month: June 2024

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from: Acronis, Appdome, ARMO, Atsign, Cofense, Datadog, Diligent, Entrust, eSentire, KELA, Metomic, NinjaOne, Plainsea, SailPoint, SentinelOne, Tines,Trend Micro, Verimatrix, Veritas Technologies, and Zyxel. Plainsea: Cybersecurity platform…

USX Cyber GUARDIENT helps MSPs protect their clients

USX Cyber unveiled GUARDIENT, an eXtended Detection and Response (XDR) cybersecurity platform designed specifically for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) serving small to medium-sized businesses. This solution addresses the urgent need for comprehensive, enterprise-grade security in a market that is disproportionately…

CISOs becoming more comfortable with risk levels

Shifts in the cyber threats landscape have changed the way today’s CISOs evaluate their business’s risk appetite, according to Netskope. CISO risk appetite levels Specifically, 92% of CISOs report that these changes are creating tensions with their CEO and other…

Leveraging AI and automation for enhanced security operations

In this Help Net Security interview, Michelle Weston, VP of Security & Resiliency at Kyndryl, discusses the key challenges in security operations and how to address them. The top issues are increasing cyber resilience risks, changing regulatory conditions, and implementing…

New infosec products of the week: June 28, 2024

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from ARMO, Cofense, Datadog, and eSentire. Datadog LLM Observability secures generative AI applications Datadog’s LLM Observability offers prompt and response clustering, seamless integration with Datadog Application…

Largest Croatian hospital under cyberattack

The University Hospital Centre Zagreb (KBC Zagreb) is under cyberattack that started on Wednesday night, the Croatian Radiotelevision has reported. Because of the attack, the hospital has shut down its information system and will be switching parts of it online…

Lastwall Quantum Shield delivers protection against Q-Day threats

Lastwall launched Quantum Shield, a quantum resilient product that protects conventional network infrastructures with the latest quantum cryptographic standards. Lastwall is backed by Blue Bear Capital, BlueWing Ventures, and 18 West Capital Partners. In light of identity-related incidents continuing to…

Datadog LLM Observability secures generative AI applications

Datadog announced LLM Observability, which allows AI application developers and ML engineers to efficiently monitor, improve and secure large language model (LLM) applications. With LLM Observability, companies can accelerate the deployment of generative AI applications to production environments and scale…

New ransomware, infostealers pose growing risk in 2024

BlackBerry detected and stopped 3.1 million cyberattacks (37,000 per day) in the first quarter of 2024. Between January and March 2024, BlackBerry detected 630,000 malicious hashes, representing a 40% increase from its previous reporting period. 60% of attacks targeting industry…

75% of new vulnerabilities exploited within 19 days

Last year alone, over 30,000 new vulnerabilities were published, with a new vulnerability emerging approximately every 17 minutes — averaging 600 new vulnerabilities per week, according to Skybox Security. The report highlights a critical gap in remediation efforts, with the…