In 2019, a seemingly innocuous and routine software update from SolarWinds, a Texas-based energy company, cascaded into a major cyberattack that affected the Pentagon, the U.S. Treasury, Justice and ...

Alexander Slagg is a freelance writer specializing in technology and education. He is an ongoing contributor to the CDW family of magazines. A Government Accountability Office report released in ...

Karen Scarfone is the principal consultant for Scarfone Cybersecurity. She provides cybersecurity publication consulting services to organizations and was formerly a senior computer scientist for the ...

Note: An earlier version of the story used "key" in the headline as a synonym for "critical." The result read as a possible reference to "keylogging," which was not the intent. The word was changed ...

Microsoft is warning enterprise customers that, for almost a month, a bug caused critical logs to be partially lost, putting at risk companies that rely on this data to detect unauthorized activity.

The cybersecurity landscape is undergoing a significant transformation, marked by new entrants and a surge in acquisitions of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) startups by major tech vendors—six ...

The more critical APIs become, the more sensitive data they carry identities, payment details, health records, customer preferences, tokens, keys, and more. And this is where organizations face a ...

From vendors offering identity and data security to providers of security service edge, here’s a look at 20 key companies in identity, access and data security. If the growth of the identity and ...

Data protection concept reflecting the pivotal role of information security controls for companies. We often hear how poor data security can bring a business to its knees. It’s a worthwhile narrative; ...

A data logger is a type of data acquisition system, but a data acquisition system is not necessarily a data logger. There are several key functional differences between these two classes of ...