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Emerging Threats: Provider of Open Source Threat Intelligence

CTOvision

Emerging Threats - now part of Proofpoint - is a world-leading provider of open source and commercial threat and malware intelligence. Founded in 2003 as a cyber security research community, Emerging Threats has become a de facto standard in network-based malware threat detection.

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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security

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Microsoft announced on its TechNet blog that it will extend its anti-malware updates a full year, but there is much more to keeping a system secure than current anti-malware. Meaning, even though anti-malware is extended, attackers will have easier access when attempting to victimize organizations running the outdated OS.

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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO

As these devices communicate across clinical environments and with external networks and services, they ensure that you establish baseline behavior, monitor devices for anomalous behavior, and protect network-connected devices against threats such as malware. Simplify operations. What is the device? What is the device supposed to do?

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Security and Windows 10 Will Cross Paths for Enterprises

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1 area of spending increase in 2015, with nearly half (46%) planning to invest more in access control, intrusion prevention, and virus and malware protection. Deepak was the lead architect of Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003, and prior to that was a program manager with the Windows NT Networking team.

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WannaCry Ransomware Review and Global Impact.

ProtectWise

While older OS’s like Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are vulnerable, there were no patches being released since these products are End of Life. Speculation suggests this was the malware attempting to check for fabricated network traffic commonly found in sandboxing solutions used by security researchers.

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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. Microsoft's CVE-2019-0708 Advisory Page.

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

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Before joining NASA in 2003, Dan worked on highly parallel applications for the Department of Defense (DoD). Prior to being the high performance computing lead, Dan served as the lead system engineer for the NCCS over the past 10 years where he has architected dramatic increases in computational and storage capabilities for NASA scientists.