Food banks have been a common site around the country as a result of the economic difficulties caused by the pandemic. Today’s columnist, Johanna Baum of S3 Consulting, says as we face continued economic uncertainty and a work-from-home culture, managing identities has become the first line of defense.
Today’s columnist, James Stanger of CompTIA, says the SolarWinds hack was an outgrowth of “status quo” IT management. Stanger urges companies to update code, deploy monitoring and embrace better governance by bringing CISOs and other security leaders into the organization.
Google’s Project Zero this week introduced a six-part series that offers an analysis of four zero-day vulnerabilities on Windows and Chrome, and known-day Android exploits it found during the team’s extensive research last year.
Now that the workforce will remain fluid for the foreseeable future, it’s time to make those emergency measures sustainable and scalable for the long haul.
NSA's Anne Neuberger will assume her new role on the heels of some other shifts among cyber leaders: John Costello resigned as deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and security at the Commerce Department, and ousted CISA director Chris Krebs is heading to SolarWinds.
Ideally, companies would give teams ample time to take security into consideration and think through all the implications of their code and configurations. But when the deadline pressure gets turned up, security becomes less of a priority.
While there are law enforcement uses for facial recognition technologies, to understand the security implications of them, we first need to define a use case.
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