The Cybersecurity Canon
Palo Alto Networks' CSO Rick Howard sits down at RSA 2017 with Infoworld's Fahmida Rashid to talk about what the Cybersecurity Canon is, and his top picks for inclusion this year.
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Cybersecurity and the Cloud in 2017
Infoworld Senior Writer Fahmida Rashid chats with Palo Alto Networks' CSO Rick Howard about the biggest cybersecurity challenges facing businesses working in the cloud in 2017.
Forget the network perimeter, say security vendors
Credit to Author: Lucian Constantin| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 08:13:00 -0800
What if all your company’s computers and applications were connected directly to the Internet? That was the assumption behind BeyondCorp, a new model for network security that Google proposed back in 2014, and it’s one that’s starting to get some attention from networking and security vendors.
Enterprises have moved beyond the traditional workspace in recent years, allowing employees to work remotely by using their personal devices and accessing apps in private or public clouds. To bring roaming workers back into the fold, under the security blanket of their local networks, companies rely on VPNs and endpoint software to enforce network access controls.
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Moving To Serverless Cloud Apps
Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 14:31:02 +0000
One of the key benefits of the cloud is focus. Spinning up a virtual server in the cloud lets you focus on the operations and security of the operating system, you applications, and your data. Similarly migrating to a SaaS productivity suite lets you focus on your data and getting work done. This is the…
Want Secure Elections? Then Maybe Don’t Cut Security Funding
Credit to Author: Dan S. Wallach and Justin Talbot-Zorn| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 13:30:35 +0000
Opinion: Dropping funding for the crucial Election Administration Commission is a particularly bad way to save money. The post Want Secure Elections? Then Maybe Don’t Cut Security Funding appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreEdward Snowden’s New Job: Protecting Reporters From Spies
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:00:08 +0000
As president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Snowden is helping the media beat state-sponsored hackers and government surveillance. The post Edward Snowden’s New Job: Protecting Reporters From Spies appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreEffectively Using Threat Intelligence
Credit to Author: Ken Xie| Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 06:09:18 -0800
If we want to get ahead of cybercrime, we must share information. A collection of companies working together to collect and share intelligence will always have better visibility into the threat landscape than one organization on its own. Seeing new threats as soon as they emerge increases our ability to respond and protect valuable resources. There is a lot of raw data for organizations to use, from both global sources and within their own networks. Unfortunately, most security infrastructures were not designed to effectively consume, correlate,…
Read MoreCybersecurity alliance promoting intel-sharing seeks to expand
Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:48:00 -0800
The Cyber Threat Alliance, a group of security firms that often compete, is seeking to expand. In an effort to recruit more members, the Cyber Threat Alliance is announcing that it’s become a not-for-profit. In addition, a former White House official will be its new leader.
Rivals including Fortinet, Intel Security, Palo Alto Networks and Symantec originally entered into the alliance over two years ago, even as doubts arose over whether it would last.
The intelligence sharing between the vendors will also accelerate. Before it was done manually, and involved sharing 1,000 malware samples each day. But alliance members have built a platform that will now automate the information sharing in real-time.
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