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Vigilance can report that reservists across the country from the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Army and RAF are swapping their civilian clothes for military uniforms today (25 June) to celebrate Uniform to Work Day.
London: Thales UK have announced the launch of Critical 48, a new cyber incident response service that delivers a low-risk, high-value response for the critical first 48 hours of a cyber-incident.
Positive security is a new term being bandied about the industry, but it’s really just the old idea of whitelisting given new life. Almost all security systems today rely on blacklisting – allowing all programs, except those specifically identified as a security risk. But whitelisting — blocking access to all programs except those specifically allowed — makes security more robust. When whitelisting was first proposed, the technology was not ready to handle the needs of such a system. We’ve come a long way since then and it’s time to give whitelisting another look in our toolkit of security essentials.
Last weeks successful attack against Code Spaces, an up and coming IaaS provider for the DEVOPS community, is yet another example to all of us about the importance of securing our environments as we move workloads to the cloud. As I read the stark account of what happened I had an overwhelming sense of empathy for the folks at Code Spaces. While you can argue that they should have taken more care to protect their environment it is still unfortunate to see a company taken down by an attack. I can’t imagine how awful that day must have been, but maybe it went something like this…
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