Balancing security in hybrid cloud environment
//by Basefarm
In hybrid cloud environments you can actually setup higher security than needed. A balanced level of security is a matter of overview, expertise and costs.
BF-SIRT Newsletter 2018-19
//by Abel De Kat Angelino
Not So Pretty: What You Need to Know About E-Fail and the PGP Flaw Don’t panic! But you should stop using PGP for encrypted email and switch to a different secure communications method for now. A group of researchers released a paper today that describes a new class of serious vulnerabilities in PGP (including GPG), […]
Critical IT services need dedicated SOC for GDPR compliance
//by BasefarmLog your IT activities in a SOC to comply with GDPR and in a local private cloud to comply with NIS.
BF-SIRT Newsletter 2018-18
//by Abel De Kat AngelinoTWITTER URGES USERS TO CHANGE PASSWORDS DUE TO GLITCH Twitter said Thursday that a glitch caused account passwords to be stored in plain text on an internal log, sending users across the platform scrambling to change their passwords. The social media company said that it found and has fixed the glitch, and its investigation shows […]
BF-SIRT Newsletter 2018-17
//by Abel De Kat AngelinoKnow what Instagram knows – here’s how you download your data Instagram, the visual story-centric social media platform owned by Facebook, has now added a long-requested feature: the ability for users to download their data – including images, posts and comments. Not to be cynical, but Instagram is not making this move out of the […]
What AI and machine learning are and how they relate to IoT
//by BasefarmWe can better exploit new opportunities when we understand what new technologies involve and how they interact. Today’s topic is what artificial intelligence and machine learning are, and an insight into how they can relate to IoT and Big Data.
Are you prepared for social engineering and the Next Corporate hack?
//by BasefarmHave you opened the front door for anyone who came knocking or made way for an unknown contractor? If so, you might have been victim of social manipulation-based hacking. Training, exercise and countermeasures can help, and this also applies to the Next Big Corporate hack which surely can strike even you.
BF-SIRT Newsletter 2018-16
//by Hans-Petter Fjeld
State-Sponsored Cyber Actors do State-Sponsored Cyber Actor stuff US-CERT published a joint Technical Alert (TA) resulting from efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) providing information on the worldwide cyber exploitation of network infrastructure devices (e.g., router, switch, firewall, […]
The Norwegian Government pushes for further cloud computing
//by BasefarmTwo years after launching Cloud Computing strategy for Norway, the Norwegian Government will establish a government marketplace for cloud services. The goal is to increase benefits of the technology in the public sector. Also, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) strategy will be described in upcoming reports.
Ready to speed up your development?
//by BasefarmDevOps and Microservices are not new concepts within IT but these aspects of the development process are not often applied. “Really a shame,” in the opinion of Basefarm’s Bent Terp, “because combining DevOps and Microservices yield benefits in a wide range of areas.”