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Pentagon’s new $9B cloud contract vehicle to start taking orders in next two weeks

The Pentagon expects to get the ordering process for new JWCC services off the ground quickly now that awards have been issued to four companies, but each task order could take longer to process than DoD originally anticipated.
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Rezilion updates its vulnerability risk determination tool MI-X

Rezilion has updated MI-X, its open-source tool developed by Rezilion’s vulnerability research team. Available as a download from the Github repository, MI-X already has more than 100 stars on GitHub since its debut in August 2022. The CLI tool is a free, open-source companion to Rezilion’s enterprise solution for software supply chain security and helps researchers and developers identify if containers and hosts are impacted by a specific vulnerability, thus allowing organizations to target remediation … More → The post Rezilion updates its vulnerability risk determination tool MI-X appeared first on Help Net Security.
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ISC Stormcast For Friday, December 9th, 2022 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=8284, (Fri, Dec 9th)

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Interpres Security emerges from stealth and raises $8.5 million

Interpres Security announced its emergence from stealth alongside $8.5M in seed financing led by Ten Eleven Ventures. The Interpres Security platform offers a customized, continuous, and threat-informed analysis of an organization’s detection and mitigation capabilities and provides automated security engineering directives based on this evaluation, ultimately enabling a hardened security posture in the most efficient manner possible. To address the expanding number of cybersecurity threats, organizations now use an average of 76 tools in their … More → The post Interpres Security emerges from stealth and raises $8.5 million appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Apple unveils end-to-end encryption for iCloud backup, Photos, etc.

Apple is expanding end-to-end encryption options for users and finally offering E2EE for their iCloud backup. Advanced Data Protection for iCloud “iCloud already protects 14 sensitive data categories using end-to-end encryption by default, including passwords in iCloud Keychain and Health data. For users who enable Advanced Data Protection, the total number of data categories protected using end-to-end encryption rises to 23, including iCloud Backup, Notes, and Photos,” the company said in a recent announcement. “The … More → The post Apple unveils end-to-end encryption for iCloud backup, Photos, etc. appeared first on Help Net Security.
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How compliance leaders can encourage employees to report misconduct

As Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs) continue to face challenges in restoring employee misconduct reporting to pre-pandemic levels, there are three strategies they should implement to increase confidence in their processes among employees, according to Gartner. “There are clearly structural challenges that have impaired effective misconduct reporting, ranging from new working models, to higher employee turnover, and increased societal polarization,” said Chris Audet, VP, research, in the Gartner Legal, Risk & Compliance practice. “While CCOs can’t … More → The post How compliance leaders can encourage employees to report misconduct appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Mainframe modernization meets multicloud chaos on the road to IT’s future

Third-party vendors are creating metacloud capabilities that provide cross-platform observability and governance that sits above the cloud. 
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