Directly embedding passwords and API keys into the code you write is a bad practice. Of course, everyone knows this, but I’ll be the first to admit that it still happens now and then. In the world of source control and shared codebases, leaking a password can be a huge problem that costs your team time and money. Of course, today many companies leverage a secrets management system to lower the probability of something like this happening.
Companies today are adopting software as a service (SaaS) at a rapid pace. There are many factors contributing to this trend, including: Many large enterprises, particularly in banking and financial services, have been hesitant to adopt SaaS because it challenges existing risk management models already in place for software.
Securing your environment requires being able to quickly detect abnormal activity that could represent a threat. But today’s modern cloud infrastructure is large, complex, and can generate vast volumes of logs. This makes it difficult to determine what activity is normal and harder to identify anomalous behavior. Now, in addition to threshold and new term –based Threat Detection Rules , Datadog Security Monitoring provides the ability to create anomaly.
The Biden administration signed an executive order recently to regulate security practices among federal agencies and establishments. The decision modernizes and improves government networks in pursuit of fool-proof federal cyber defense. This comes in the wake of a series of malicious cyberattacks that targeted both public and private entities in the past year. In the largest breach in US history, SolarWinds
Technology has paved the way for businesses to reach out to more customers and clients. One of the most effective ways to reach more people is through the Internet, by creating a great website. Nowadays, businesses with websites have a name and face in the online world. However, as technology advances, so do security risks. If hackers get into a website, they can steal sensitive data – say, customer information (i.e., payment methods, addresses, etc.).
Black Hat USA is one of the industry’s oldest and most well-established security events. Last year, the conference was held virtually for the first time in its history. This year’s conference brought together the best of both worlds, with a hybrid event that was held virtually and in person in Las Vegas. Historically, Black Hat has seen about 20,000 attendees at its in-person conference.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) conducts periodic audits to verify that covered entities (CEs) and their business associates (BAs) are complying with HIPAA regulations. This article will discuss the steps organizations can take to ensure they pass a HIPAA compliance audit by having the proper data privacy and security measures in place for protected health information (PHI) and electronically protected health information (ePHI).
If you’re a developer who lives and breathes code all day, you probably don’t mind having to write complex configuration files to set up an automation tool or configure a management policy. But the fact is that many of the stakeholders who stand to benefit from security automation are not developers.
Throughout my career within the compliance and security space, I’ve seen the practice of proactively managing digital risk move from a nice-to-have to a must-have for enterprise organizations. And over the last 5 years, things have shifted drastically. Personally, it reminds me of the classic “Dry Bones” nursery rhyme song that my son loves so much which points out how all the different bones are connected to make one body.
