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Menifee Positioning Itself As Hub For 'High-Wage, High-Skill' Sectors - Murrieta, CA - A special ceremony was held Wednesday at Menifee City Hall to formalize the "JOBSNow Initiative."

GUEST RESEARCH: 53% say supply chain issues will stay the same or worsen over the next six months. Over the last two years, supply chain challenges ha...

Ransomware Resilience and Response Playbook When ransomware locks up your business’s critical data and essential gear, panic can set in fast–which just makes you more vulnerable. But questions abound: is this a ransomworm that’s going to spread to other endpoints? Are the attackers going to dox us too? Should we pay the ransom even though we know we’re not supposed to? How good are our backups? Have we adequately prepared to continue business operations? Be prepared with some answers.�...

Realistic Patch Management Tips, Post-SolarWinds Patch management and testing are different, exactly the same, and completely out of hand. Here are tips from the experts on how to wrangle patches in a time of malicious software updates. (image by Barbara Helgason, via Adobe Stock) "If you didnt already know that patching introduces risk, well...now you know," says Brad Causey, CEO of security consulting and penetration testing firm Zero Day Consulting. Causey is referring of course to the rece...

Realistic Patch Management Tips, Post-SolarWinds Patch management and testing are different, exactly the same, and completely out of hand. Here are tips from the experts on how to wrangle patches in a time of malicious software updates. (image by Barbara Helgason, via Adobe Stock) "If you didnt already know that patching introduces risk, well...now you know," says Brad Causey, CEO of security consulting and penetration testing firm Zero Day Consulting. Causey is referring of course to the rece...

IP Architects John P. Pironti is the President of IP Architects, LLC. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security and risk management strategy and programs, enterprise resiliency capabilities, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, insurance, energy, government, hospitality, aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, media and entertainment, and information...

Thinkstock Hot patching and isolating potentially affected resources are on the IT response schedule as enterprises that employ SolarWinds Orion network-monitoring software look to limit the impact of the serious Trojan unleashed on the platform. The supply-chain attack, reported early this week by Reuters and detailed by security researchers at FireEye and Microsoft involves a potential state-sponsored, sophisticated actor gained access to a wide variety of government, public an...