Security Strategy, Plan, Budget

Apple released substantial updates Thursday to its Platform Security Guide – the first revision since April, and the first in the era of Apple's self-designed M1 chips.

Today’s columnist, Michael Covington of Wandera, says the days of constructing a moat around the data center with lots of security hardware are being replaced by the cloud-based security model that Gartner coined Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).

In episode 1 of the CISO Stories podcast, Mischel Kwon, founder and CEO of W@tchTower, joins Todd Fitzgerald of Cybersecurity Collaborative, to talk about how CISOs can effectively communicate to the board.

Today’s columnist, Borya Shakhnovich of airSlate, says companies such as Facebook have extended work-from-home plans and likely embrace automation. He says companies facing employee burnout from work-from-home policies will find that automation paves the way to enterprise security.

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

When it comes to cybersecurity coverage, the relationship between enterprises and insurers has been rocky and uncertain. But the market just may force a compromise.

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

If more attacks are uncovered, end-user organizations must apply lessons learned from SolarWinds and take decisive action.