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GUEST RESEARCH: Venafi investigation of 35 million dark web URLs shows macro-enabled ransomware is widely available at bargain prices.

A new report suggests insufficient steps have been made in the broad adoption of encryption by top websites.

Machine identity management provider Venafi's survey of 1,000 CIOs found that 82% think their organisations are vulnerable to software supply chain attacks.

Barracuda Cloud Application Protection strengthens web application and API security, adds account takeover protection, boosts client-side supply chain attack protection, and includes new technology integration with Venafi

COMPANY NEWS: Jetstack, a Venafi company and leader in cloud native, open source and strategic consulting services, today announced the availability of an easy-to-use, interactive and comprehensive toolkit for securing modern software supply chains. The visual, web-based resource is available to everyone and is designed to help organisations evaluate and plan the crucial steps they need to tackle effective software supply chain security. Software supply chain security has become an increasingly critical issue for all organisations. After the attack against Solar Winds at the end of 2020 that affected over 1800 companies, software supply chain attacks increased over 300% in 2021.

A survey conducted for machine identity management specialist Venafi found that CIOs expect the average number of machine identities per organisation to grow from 250,000 at the end of 2021 to more than 500,000 by 2024.

GUEST OPINION: The cyberthreat landscape is constantly evolving as attackers use new techniques to gain access to their targets.

A survey conducted for machine identity management provider Venafi found 77% of Australian IT decision makers are so concerned about new extortion tactics that they believe ransomware should be considered a matter of national security.

GUEST RESEARCH: Evaluating the opinions of more than 1,000 IT and development professionals, including 193 executives with responsibility for both security and software development, a survey conducted by machine identity management and provider Venafi revealed there is a glaring disconnect between executive concern and executive action.

Security professionals believe the world is in a permanent state of cyber war, with 90% concerned that digital infrastructure will suffer the most damage as a result, according to new research which found that these professionals believe the most vulnerable industries are those that are undergoing rapid digital transformation and are essential to daily life.

Global machine identity protection provider Venafi says that between US$51 billion to US$72 billion in losses to the worldwide economy could be eliminated through the proper management and protection of machine identities.

Malware campaigns equipped with the capability to exploit powerful, hidden backdoors are becoming commoditised, according to one security firm which says that research reveals that several high-profile hacker campaigns are integrating the misuse of SSH machine identities capabilities into their attacks.

With a number of global certificate outages, malicious software backdoors and major data breaches, 2019 was a banner year for cybercriminals, according to machine identity protection provider Venafi which warns that security professionals should expect to see more attacks targeting machine identities throughout 2020.

Machine identity protection provider Venafi has found that a survey of government-mandated encryption backdoors show that 80% of the respondents say countries with government-mandated encryption backdoors are more vulnerable to cyberattacks targeting election infrastructure.

Intel has revealed four more vulnerabilities in all its modern processors, all of which could lead to side channel attacks that use speculative execution to leak data.

Machine identity protection provider Venafi has found that certificate-related outages of critical business infrastructure were experienced during the last 12 months by nearly two-third of 550 companies it studied in five countries.

Recent research sponsored by Venafi has uncovered thriving marketplaces for TLS certificates sold individually and packaged with a wide range of crimeware.

Tech professionals have offered mixed reactions about the Australian data breach law which took effect a year ago today, pointing out that in general while it has no big downsides, the legislation has no great upsides either.

Security vendors Venafi and nCipher Security have joined forces to deliver a system they say enables organisations to scale the generation and protection of machine identities, even in complex, high-security environments.

Certificate and key management specialist Venafi would like to see Australian and New Zealand developers benefit from its Machine Identity Protection Fund.