Endpoint/Device Security

Today’s columnist, Liviu Arsene of Bitdefender, offers some actionable advice to security pros for locking down networks in the work-from-home era.

Some of the tested stacks, which are also used in industrial equipment and other networked products, have yet to be patched.

COVID-19 created an immediate demand for social distancing, which in turn created demand for devices to ensure compliance. Security concerns and testing, however, might fall to the wayside.

Fix addresses an exploit enabling admin credential access, and a remote code execution attack.

What does that correlation mean for chief information security officers? SC Media spoke to Kelly White, RiskRecon founder and CEO, to find out.

While Apple has a significant focus on making iOS secure, one researcher said increasingly complex capabilities often bring vulnerabilities.

Softing Industrial Automation GmbH, Kepware PTC, and Matrikon Honeywell all provided fixes for their respective products after security firm Claroty privately disclosed them during 2020.

With public administration apps, the number that went a year with an unpatched security flaw dropped to 67 percent, and nine other sectors ranged between 50 and 60 percent, according to research from WhiteHat Security.