Sean Michael Kerner

SAN FRANCISCO—Understanding and evaluating risk is always a hot top for security professionals.  At the RSA Conference 2019 here on March 5, Palo Alto Networks Chief Security Officer Rick Howard ran a session on an advanced method known as “Superforecasting” that can help organizations go beyond basic heat maps to better evaluate and define risk. […]

SAN FRANCISCO— Often RSA Conference keynotes detail new technologies or outline existing challenges. At the RSA Conference 2019 here, RSA Security took a different approach this year—predicting a possible future that could be less than ideal for humanity unless the right steps are taken. Rohit Ghai, president of RSA Security, a Dell Technologies business, and […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The daily deluge of negative security headlines and data breaches isn’t the whole story when it comes to modern cyber-security, according to Cisco. In a keynote at the RSA Conference here, Cisco executives outlined some key successes against recent threats and detailed a strategy for bridging the gap between information technology (IT) and operational […]

SAN FRANCISCO – When Google’s parent company Alphabet started Chronicle, one of the basic promises was to live up to the name and help organizations to ‘chronicle’ their cyber-security activities. At an event alongside the RSA Conference 2019 here, Chronicle officially announced its Backstory service which enables enterprises to search though network security data rapidly […]

SAN FRANCISCO – For several years, ransomware was a rising threat, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and disrupting operations around the world. But what is the state of ransomware in 2019?  In a session at the RSA Conference here, a pair of McAfee researchers detailed how the threat landscape for ransomware has […]

Linux 5.0, the first major milestone release of the open-source Linux kernel in 2019, launched on March 3. Linux 5.0 is the first version of the kernel since April 2015, when Linux 4.0 was released, with a major new version number. That said, Linux creator Linus Torvalds really doesn’t assign a specific significance to new […]

Nominet, a well-known technology vendor in the United Kingdom that has been operating the .UK Top Level Domain for the past two decades. is now coming to the U.S., with new commercial technology to help organizations and internet providers detect and block DNS threats. DNS (Domain Name System) is the technology that connects IP addresses […]

Container network security vendor NeuVector is announcing the 3.0 release of its namesake platform on March 1, providing organizations with an integrated data loss prevention (DLP) capability. With DLP, NeuVector will be able to discover personally identifiable information (PII) within cloud-native container and Kubernetes workloads, helping organizations limit the risk of data loss, as well […]

The open-source containerd project is a foundational element for the modern cloud-native landscape, providing the container runtime used by millions of applications every day. On Feb. 28, the containerd project hit a major milestone, officially graduating from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), highlighting the project’s overall maturity and stability. Graduation is the highest level […]

No one technology or vendor can protect an organization against all cyber-security risks. That’s why Symantec has been pushing forward its vision of an Integrated Cyber Defense platform (ICD) in an effort to bring together multiple technologies with an integrated approach. On Feb. 27, Symantec announced a major set of advancements for ICD, with new […]

Capsule8 is announcing on Feb. 27 that it is now certified to help organizations meet multiple requirements of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) 3.2.1. The compliance comes alongside a series of improvements Capsule8 has made to its zero-day threat protection platform in recent months that provide antivirus (AV), intrusion detection and prevention […]

While ransomware is still a risk, it’s not the primary attack vector used by hackers to make money, according to IBM. The 2019 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index was released on Feb. 26, providing insight into the attack landscape over the course 2018. The report, based on data observed by IBM from monitoring over 70 […]