The Essential Role of IT in Ransomware Protection

Osquery has been established as a highly effective open source tool to help secure workstation and server workloads. A new osquery extension, cloudquery, enables security, IT, and DevOps teams to leverage the power of SQL-based analytics to easily get answers to questions about their multi-cloud infrastructure.

We hear a lot about “Shifting Left” on security and compliance in order to find and fix policy violations and security vulnerabilities early in the software development lifecycle. When security and compliance comes later, making changes become more expensive and slows things down. However, nearly all of the focus with shifting left is on the application and OS, with scant attention paid to infrastructure security and compliance.

As face-to-face and public discussions from classrooms to business meetings have been forced to move online exclusively, the substantial increase in traffic is already straining the world’s internet infrastructure. What are the long-term implications of this surging demand? How will the design of the internet change to accommodate the video and other tech platforms that we will increasingly rely on? How will governments and companies manage the surge in traffic and what will it mean for internet shutdowns and censorship? How will this dynamic affect the next range of internet standards meetings which will be taking place virtually for the first time in three decades?

Cybersecurity is increasingly important when it comes to critical infrastructure such as power plants, electricity grids, communication networks, and cloud systems. Potential vulnerabilities pose substantial risks to the effectiveness and efficiency of such critical infrastructure, and directly impact the functioning of states, economies, and societies.