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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO

By Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President and GM at cyber security leader Palo Alto Networks Connected medical devices, also known as the Internet of Medical Things or IoMT, are revolutionizing healthcare, not only from an operational standpoint but related to patient care. Many connected devices ship with inherent vulnerabilities.

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The State of Security in 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In August 2024, we asked our customers to tell us about security: their role in security, their certifications, their concerns, and what their companies are doing to address those concerns. We had 1,322 complete responses, of which 419 (32%—roughly one-third) are members of a security team. are managers, 7.2% That gives us 27.9%

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A Day in the Life of a Business-Aligned Cybersecurity Leader

Tenable

The future belongs to cybersecurity leaders who can align their objectives with an understanding of business risk. I've been working in cybersecurity for 20 years. I've run intrusion detection programs and security operations centers and was responsible for policy and compliance of all those components.

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Cybersecurity Q&A with Dave Elfering, VP information security at Werner Enterprises

Sailpoint

Dave Elfering, currently Vice President of information security has also witnessed a considerable amount of growth and change over his career when it comes to information security. In 1997, Elfering began working at Werner as a project manager to help the company build its online presence and secure its data.

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CVE-2019-0708: BlueKeep Exploited in the Wild to Deliver Cryptocurrency Miner

Tenable

On November 2, security researchers Kevin Beaumont ( @GossiTheDog ) and Marcus Hutchins ( @MalwareTechBlog ) confirmed the first in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2019-0708 , also known as BlueKeep. Going to nickname it BlueKeep as it’s about as secure as the Red Keep in Game of Thrones, and often leads to a blue screen of death when exploited.

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CVE-2019-0708: BlueKeep Exploits Could Be Around the Corner

Tenable

Microsoft took the unusual step of publishing a blog post announcing security updates for out-of-support versions of Windows, including Windows XP and Windows 2003, and warning that BlueKeep could be as impactful as the WannaCry worm that took hold in May 2017. Blocking RDP (Default is TCP port 3389) at your perimeter firewall.

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Cybercrime in Hollywood: Why hacking is portrayed more accurately than you think

Lacework

After working in the security world, it made me wonder, could hackers really take control of a moving car? To find out more, I turned to some of my favorite cybersecurity experts—two of Lacework Labs’ cloud security researchers Chris Hall and Greg Foss, who both consistently stay ahead of hackers and their techniques.

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