The number of reported major IT/hacking events attributed to ransomware by health care institutions increased by 89 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to cyber defense firm Cryptonite’s 2017 Healthcare Cyber Research Report, which used data reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The research [...]
Firewalls come in many forms and often do not offer enough protection. In this blog post I describe a little project I've done to see how we can use a hardware firewall with Suricata based intrusion prevention in a somewhat portable way. Paranoid or necessary? I'd say necessary, considering the myriad of attacks that [...]
ObjectSecurity’s innovative OpenPMF cloud and/or on-premises product technically enforces powerful security policies effortlessly across what we call generically “interconnected IT landscapes”. These can be desktops and servers across enterprise networks, but often are interconnected device landscapes that are today referred to as IIoT, the Industrial internet of Things. There are multiple challenges with enforcing [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA,February 13, 2017 -- ObjectSecurity®, the industry leader in security policy automation, today announced that the company’s new OpenPMF 4.0 Security Policy Management solution will be officially launched at a series of special OpenPMF 4.0 launch events during the annual RSA Conference 2017, February 13-17 in San Francisco. OpenPMF is already used successfully [...]
This video is from the first event of our OpenPMF 4.0 Launch: Securing Smart Cities ObjectSecurity CEO Ulrich Lang discusses "securing smart cities" in a panel discussion with fellow security industry leaders (February 7, 2017). OpenPMF 4.0 will be released on February 13/14 during the RSA Show week in San Francisco, CA, USA, during [...]
We hit the glass ceiling years ago! Hackers are winning unless we change! This slide deck was presented by ObjectSecurity CEO Dr. Ulrich Lang at ISSA Cornerstones of Trust 2015. The cyber security ecosystem is progressing too slowly; few game-changers find adoption. The “good guys” are operating under severe constraints: End-user organizations often cannot [...]
In today's world there is not one day passing by without new a hacks or leak. The right knowledge is key to ensure that your organisation has the right measure in place to damage control hacker pivots and insider leaks. In this whitepaper, Dr. Ulrich Lang (CEO/Founder ObjectSecurity) discusses the top 10 things you need to know [...]