Sean Michael Kerner

Security researchers from CTS Labs released a report on March 13 that claims Advanced Micro Devices CPUs are at risk from 13 critical flaws that can endanger users and organizations. The flaws impact AMD’s EPYC, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro and Ryzen Mobile processors and have been dubbed Ryzenfall, Masterkey, Fallout and Chimera by CTS Labs. There […]

There is a lot of hype around artificial Intelligence, and while the technology can be useful, it does have limitations, according to RSA CTO Zulfikar Ramzan. Speaking at the Dell Technologies Experience at the South by South West (SXSW) event in Austin, Texas, on March 12, Ramzan detailed his views on AI in a session […]

Protecting organizations against cyber-security threats isn’t just about prevention, it’s also about incident response. There are many different organizations that provide these security capabilities, including IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS), which is led by Wendi Whitmore. In the attached video interview Whitmore explains how incident response works and how she helps organizations […]

Blockchain-based distributed storage vendor Storj Labs announced on March 12 that it has appointed former Docker CEO Ben Golub as its executive chairman and interim CEO. Golub was replaced as Docker’s CEO in May 2017, after leading the container vendor through its early stages and helping to build a profitable foundation for the business. Prior […]

RSA is expanding its Identity Governance and Lifecycle product suite with the new 7.1 update that provides improved analytics, as well as best practice recommendations for deployment and configuration. RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle provides organizations with multiple capabilities to help understand and manage identities and access within an enterprise. The need for identity governance […]

Days after the largest distributed denial-of-service attack in internet history, the attack size of memcached DDoS attacks is now on the decline. On March 5, Netscout Arbor Networks reported a 1.7-Tbps DDoS attack that was driven by the amplification of misconfigured memcached servers. While there were some initial fears that the attacks would continue to […]

Consumer Breaches Are Influencing Enterprise Security Policies The consumer IT world has a lot of influence on how enterprises view cyber-security, according to Gemalto’s Identity and Access Management Index 2018 report. The 30-page report, released March 7, is based on interviews with 1,050 IT decision-makers conducted between September and November 2017. Ninety percent of respondents […]

Cyber-security vendor Tenable Inc. announced its new cyber-exposure benchmarking service called Lumin on March 8. Lumin is part of the tenable.io Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that Tenable launched in January 2017, which provides security scanning and vulnerability management capabilities. With Lumin, Tenable is adding a new layer of functionality that aims to enable organizations to better […]

Security firm Kaspersky Lab released its annual Mobile Malware Evolution report on March 7, revealing that there was a decline in the volume of multiple types of mobile malware threats in 2017, though the overall number of mobile malware attacks grew. Kaspersky Lab mobile security products reported 42.7 million attempted mobile malware attacks in 2017, […]

Malware Attacks Up, Ransomware Attacks Down in 2017, SonicWall Reports There were a lot of mixed signals in the cyber-security attack landscape in 2017, according to security firm SonicWall. The total volume of malware attacks last year grew to 9.32 billion, up from 7.87 billion 2016, revealed the company in its 2018 Cyber Threat Report, […]

Aqua Security launched version 3.0 of its namesake container security platform on March 7, refocusing the product on providing Kubernetes cloud-native enterprise security controls. Aqua originally focused on just Docker container deployments, but with the new 3.0 update it is providing a series of capabilities that are aligned with Kubernetes deployments. Kubernetes provides container orchestration capabilities […]

The size of massive distributed denial-of-service attacks continues to grow, hitting yet another new high on March 5, with a report of a 1.7-Tbps attack. The attack was reported by Netscout Arbor and came just four short days after the March 1 report of the then largest DDoS attack at 1.35 Tbps against GitHub. Both […]