Federal Government Acquisition Standards to Involve Cybersecurity In January of this year the Department of Defense (DoD), in cooperation with the General Services Administration (GSA) announced they would be implementing a cybersecurity and resilience program for the Fed…
Coming in at #8 on the OWASP Top 10 List – 2017, Most Critical Web Application Security Risks is Insecure Deserialization. This vulnerability occurs when untrusted data is used to abuse the logic of an application or application program interface (API).
Next, at #9 on the list, we have the use of components with known vulnerabilities. While this might sound easy to avoid, tight time constraints might cause developers to use whatever libraries it takes to get…
With the recent growth of web-based applications, it is more important than ever to keep security in mind when developing or maintaining these applications. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has a list of…
Updates to the Cybersecurity Framework were made on April 16, 2018, creating NIST CSF V1.1. The new and improved framework was designed to be more informative and effective for all organizations.
As most of us know, being responsible for cybersecurity and how it is perceived by an organization can be a rather thankless task. Very seldom is our job function(s) even noticed — unless of course our job was not done properly. With the onslaught of virtualization, mobile computing…
Multiple regulatory compliance requirements have made changes as of late that involve adding Penetration Testing to be performed on an organizations environment. With this added requirements comes added complexity…
(BUSINESS WIRE) CipherLoc Corporation (OTCQB: CLOK), the data security company that enables an ironclad layer of data protection, has partnered with Praetorian Secure, LLC, a provider of security technology and solutions for organizations like…
Any organization familiar with the inner-workings of the Department of Defense (DoD) Information Assurance (IA) world knows that a high level of expectation goes into the adequate protection of data. Those same folks also know that very seldom is the expectation ever achieved…
NIST Security Recommendations for Cloud For the better part of two years now cloud computing has drawn significant spotlight for ease of use, lower cost, and overall reduction in resources required by the companies that utilize these services. However, a major concern from the beginning has been how security is applied within the cloud environment…