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Security 2020: Why We See Big Opportunity for Founders Building Developer-Centric Security Startups

Battery Ventures

They oversaw centralized Security Operations Centers (SOCs), which used security software to manually detect and remediate threats and vulnerabilities throughout the organization (think detecting malware on a network, firewall breaches, modification of access permissions, etc.) Denotes a past or present Battery portfolio company.

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Bogons: Do not let them in or through your networks

CTOvision

Many ISPs and end-user firewalls seek to block bogons, because they have no legitimate use (more details on how successful they can be at this are below). Historically, when ISPs or enterprises say they filter bogons, they are likely only referring to private IP addresses, not the full bogon address space.

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Exploiting IT Analytics to Create a ‘Human Layer’ Security Initiative

CTOvision

firewalls, endpoint protection, intrusion detection), but attempts at automating the human interaction part of the process have fallen short. FireMon refers to this new class as ‘Unknowns.’. Over the past 15-20 years the industry has invested billions in pursuit of automated security layers (e.g.

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Machines won’t replace threat hunters until they master this one skill

Lacework

Threat detection refers to identifying known security issues in an environment; this process is usually performed automatically by threat detection tools. You can’t find threats without a place to start hunting and in this case their hunting grounds refer to anywhere you can find enough data.

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Flash Prices are Dropping. Now What?

Infinidat

IT’s role is to implement tools that serve business needs: Firewalls serve to protect and control access, collaboration tools enable better project efficiency and faster time to market, etc. If we acknowledge that the threat is inside your firewall, are you still comfortable with data on the WAN in cleartext? Source: GDPR, Article 34.

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The Perfect and Continuous Storm: Understanding the Cyber Implications of the Regulatory Governance For Security Advisors

CTOvision

In this piece he underscored the compliance regime around registered investment advisors (RIA), a key descriptor used by the Security and Exchange Commission and other regulatory bodies to refer to those that give advice about securities.

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Cloud Security Basics: Protecting Your Web Applications

Tenable

In some cases, a cloud provider may offer services to help mitigate the issues, such as web application firewalls (WAF). These include: Insecure direct object references (IDOR): By taking advantage of an IDOR vulnerability, an attacker can perform arbitrary requests on objects they should not be able to access.