Make DNS a Cornerstone of Your Cyber Security Arsenal

Better known for their essential role in networking, Domain Name Servers should be tapped as a means to identify – and shut down – suspicious or destructive activity, according to Anthony James, VP of Marketing for Infoblox. He also explains how to combine DNS with DHCP and IP address management to improve an organization’s security.

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Endgame Boosts Apple Security to Be Commensurate with Windows Security

Gone are the days when users could take refuge from Windows threats with Apple devices, as malware writers are exploiting OSX and iOS with real vigor, says Mark Dufresne, VP of R&D at Endgame. And though it’s taken a while, Mac security has achieved parity with Windows so that Apple users need no longer settle for “protected enough.”

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Secureworks Pushes Human Intelligence, Machine Learning to Work Together

Eschewing the either-or approach with machine learning, security operations centers must learn to identify and exploit the best of both approaches according to Secureworks’ Tim Vidas and Nash Borges. Taken together, human and machine intelligence can be a force multiplier against human cyber adversaries, they say.

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Asset Management Becomes the New Security Model

While security pros once rallied around end-device management as their organizing principle, that approach is being subsumed by asset management, according to Dean Sysman, CEO and Co-Founder of Axonius. Device management becomes a subset of asset management, as organizations create a hierarchy to protect what’s most valuable to them, he adds.

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