Improve Pen Testing Outcomes With Purple Teaming – PSW #634
Purple teaming reduces the lifespan of vulnerabilities found from pentests by facilitating knowledge transfer between red and blue teams in the remediation phase. PlexTrac provides a single interface through which red teams may report vulnerabilities and blue teams may remediate them. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/plextrac to claim your free month of PlexTrac. Also, be sure to stop by their booth in the Early Stage Exhibit at RSA next month.
Dan has over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity. Dan started his career in the Department of Defense and then moved on to consulting where he worked for various companies. Prior to PlexTrac, Dan was the Director of Cybersecurity for Scentsy where he and his team built the security program out of its infancy into a best-in-class program. Dan has a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School with an emphasis in Information Security. Additionally, Dan holds the OSCP and CISSP certifications.
Protecting Data in Hybrid and Multiple Public Clouds – Ambuj Kumar – PSW #634
According to Gartner, 70% of businesses are adopting a hybrid cloud and multi-cloud strategy to augment their internal data centers. The challenges of protecting data and using encryption for multiple hybrid, public cloud, and on-premises environments increases complexity, cost, and security risk. As workloads and sensitive data move to the cloud, keeping cryptographic keys, shared secrets and tokens secure is critical to secure public cloud deployments and successful digital transformation.
Ambuj Kumar is co-founder and CEO of Fortanix, creator of Runtime Encryption technology. In his career, Ambuj has built technologies and products that secure billions of devices. Ambuj is a prolific inventor with more than 30 patents. He holds degrees from Stanford University and IIT Kanpur (Gold Medalist).
Security News: January 9, 2020 – PSW #634
In the security news, Car hacking hits the streets, 4 Ring employees fired for spying on customers, MITRE presents ATT&CK for ICS, and Las Vegas suffers cyberattack on the first day of CES!
