I had hoped by now we’d be long past the discovery of exposed or misconfigured databases, considering how dangerous they can be to businesses, governments and individuals—and given the heightened security measures that most organizations have implemented to secure sensitive data and precent such exposure. But here we are again—and this time the exposure is..…
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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Elastic, Emerging Tech, Global Security News, Government, SolarWinds
How DHS is working to continually improve the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program
Department of Homeland Security officials in charge of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) have pushed the program to evolve from a compliance-focused initiative to a real-time threat detection and response platform. First launched in 2013, the program is now tracking approximately 6.5 million devices, which includes operational technology…
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Open source companies that go proprietary: A timeline
Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community happy and ensuring that third parties don’t abuse the permissions afforded by the license. Many companies have launched with lofty open source ambitions, only…