SPONSORED: WATCH NOW — All it took was a global pandemic and a shift to working from home to expose security operations centers’ open secret: Too much software, systems, and data to filter. Dug Song, chief strategy officer of Cisco Secure, makes a strong case for why reducing that complexity is the only tenable way forward for security professionals.

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Are bug bounty programs allowing software companies to skirt their responsibility to make better, more secure products from the get-go?

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From limiting claims payments to tying payments to policyholders’ actions, the cyber insurance industry is in “a very dynamic place right now,” says Corvus Insurance CEO Phil Edmundson.

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SPONSORED: WATCH NOW — Some organizations split the difference with a hybrid of premises- and cloud-based SIEM, says Ted Julian, senior VP of product at Devo. As security data volumes continue to increase, SIEM’s evolution will only continue.

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Telegram and other secure messaging apps have become a haven for professional criminals to wreak havoc and turn a profit.

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The Agrius group’s focus appears to be Israel and the Middle East.

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SPONSORED: Your home WiFi router may be screaming fast, but it’s also a major point of vulnerability in this work-from-home era, says Charl van der Walt, head of security research at Orange Cyberdefense. And while Zero Trust offers some relief, he offers up some how-to advice to ensure it’s properly deployed.

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Organizations reported an average of 19 cloud-based compromises in the past year, but most don’t evaluate the security of SaaS apps before deployment.

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Security researchers at Mandiant have seen an increasing wave of relatively simplistic attacks involving ICS systems – and attackers sharing their finds with one another – since 2020.

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An analysis of Bitcoin transactions from the Hydra marketplace show that the operators are locking sellers into Russian exchanges, likely fueling profits for local actors.

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