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Hearing on Hack Prompts Call for Review of Government’s Cloud Procurement vdb photos/Shutterstock email February 28, 2021 A key lawmaker highlighted a profit motive for “basic” cybersecurity as problematic following an exchange with Microsoft President Brad Smith. As federal agencies and private-sector critical infrastructure entities struggle to assess the fallout from what researchers are calling a hack of historic scale, the ability to fully track the intruders' steps should come standard, not as a source of additional profit for government cloud vend...

The more far-flung your organization is, the more your people need software to help them communicate and collaborate. It's easy enough to roll your own collaboration platform by deploying Slack for company chat and a video conferencing app like Zoom or WebEx for meetings and webinars. If you've leaped headfirst into the Google ecosystem, you've got GSuite and Google Meet at your disposal. For organizations that have been using Zoom as their primary videoconferencing solution, the case for switching starts with Zoom's well-documented security and privacy problems, which were serious enough ...

Tenable To Buy Active Directory Security Startup Alsid For $98M French startup Alsid leverages dynamic threat scoring and complexity ratings to recommend Active Directory remediations that don’t require the deployment of agents or the leveraging of privileged accounts. By Michael Novinson February 10, 2021, 09:36 AM EST Tenable has agreed to purchase cybersecurity startup Alsid for $98 million to help customers find and fix security weaknesses in Microsoft’s Active Directory in real time. The Columbia, Md.-based vulnerability management firm said its pro...

Microsoft Security Business Exceeds $10B in Revenue Microsoft's security division has grown more than 40% year-over-year, the company reports alongside security product updates. Microsoft today announced its security business surpassed $10 billion in revenue over the past 12 months, reflecting more than 40% growth year-over-year. Related Content: In recent years, Microsoft has tightened its focus on strengthening the security of its products and services, as well as rolling out its own security tools. More than 9,000 customers use Azure Sentinel, its cloud-based SIEM made available in Septemb...

01/19/2021 Security solutions company Malwarebytes affirmed on Monday that alternative methods besides tainted SolarWinds Orion software were used in the recent "Solorigate" advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks. Malwarebytes has inside knowledge to that effect because it, too, was a victim of this APT group, which is alleged to be a nation-state actor, with Russia having been named. Malwarebytes doesn't use the SolarWinds Orion management software, which got corrupted by a so-called "supply-chain" attack method of inserting code at the build stage, which is referred to as "Sunburst...