Desktop Support and Data Breaches: The Unknown Dangers

The information age is upon us and your clients are grappling with how to effectively deal with the data explosion. They need help in efficiently backing up critical data and ensuring they can quickly recover from disasters whether they be natural or inflicted by humans. Elite IT Solution and Managed Service Providers are selling industrial strength back-up and DRaaS solutions that are addressing the situation, mitigating the risk and complexity of ensuring error-free backups that can be restored quickly in the event of a disaster.

Internet connectivity has become a must-have feature for digital business operations. Devices on the edge provide significant value, but the constant connectivity comes with a price in terms of security risk. Hackers may target industrial controls, healthcare devices, sensors, or vehicles through their open ports and global IP a

One of the most-heard complaints from security experts is that often they find their work repetitive ("The CFO's laptop has been compromised... again!"), which results in the desire of trying something "new", meaning "leave for another company." Another common complaint is that the work is very compartmentalized, and there are few occasions in which the various security specialists can enjoy working as a team. One activity that can help build a team while improving the security skills of the people involved is participating in Capture the Flag (CTF) hacking competitions. In 2003 at the University of California at Santa Barbara, one of the world's largest attack-defense CTF competitions began and has grown year-after-year, pushing the limits of the players and providing opportunities for better learning. In addition, hacking competitions are a great opportunity for recruiting new talent: CTF participants are highly skilled, well-motivated, and hard-working, which are great traits for a future employee.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have evolved into business-critical services with a unique set of application security needs. The evolution of the Business Logic Layer was accelerated in part by the popularity of the Postman API Platforms; however, traditional security testing products have struggled to adapt. This next generation of business logic API collections require a fundamentally new technology and native testing experience that empowers organizations to overcome modern security challenges.