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This blog originally appeared on the Cisco Security blog . Reposted with permission. There is no question that unwanted email is a source of annoyance. It is also the biggest source of cyber threats. In fact, just last month, spam accounted for 85 percent of all email sent . Plus, according to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations ...

What is Data Science? 'The Amalgamation of AI+ML+Big_Data' would be the sweetest and shortest answer. Formal Definitions: The application of tools, techniques, and methodologies of domains such as algorithms, machine learning, big data, and artificial intelligence in a systematic, disciplined and quantifiable manner which ultimately leads to Scientific and Engineered approaches to Data ...

What is Phactive? Phactive is a little script written in bash, it’s to aid in a red team workflow, Since red team is mostly about continuous monitoring and simulation of a real life attack. unlike in Penetration testing where you just have to run a scan and submit a report the explain ...

Now days we are dealing with lots of Security Incidents (which is Violation of Security Policy) and to deal with them we must follow some guidelines to address such security incident, here we will discuss Incident Response lifecycle that we (I am a Incident Handler) follow. You will have idea about what do we do in an overview perspective ...

If you’re one of the few who haven’t yet tried out container orchestration, you might be new to the Kubernetes architecture . “Kubernetes is a portable, extensible open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation.” Kubernetes, also popularly ...

The DevOps methodology empowers development and operations teams to collaborate rather than conflict with each other. Some of the benefits realized from a DevOps approach include more frequent software releases, shorter time to market, and fewer application failures in production.Despite these benefits, the focus on rapid development and compressed development cycles in DevOps acts as a barrier to ...

Open Source Software (OSS) components are essential for most applications today, often making up more than 50% of the codebase. Many organizations struggle to implement the appropriate security measures to protect against open source vulnerabilities. Once a vulnerability is fixed, another one pops up, and open source security can often seem like a losing game.This article explains the dangers ...

This post originally appeared on "The Lockdown" , Thycotics Cyber Security Publication The cloud has certainly been a game changer, driving innovation and growth. Companies that adopted cloud services experienced a 20.7% average improvement in time to market, 18.8% average increase in process efficiency and a 15% reduction in IT spending. Together, these ...

Let’s be honest: administering email is a pain. Routing issues, disk quotas, bouncebacks, the times when users can send but not receive emails, receive but not send, or they flat out cannot send or receive—the list goes on.It’s no wonder that email-hosting services like Office 365 have become so popular. Such cloud-based email services remove a lot of the ...

onethird] [/onethird Fun Facts About Gabrielle! What course do you teach? Introduction to SIEM Tools What is an interesting fact about you? I’m 6’0” and the shortest in my family! Your favorite food? Sushi, ...