January 30, 2023
Kannan Subbiah
FCA | CISA | CGEIT | CCISO | GRC Consulting | Independent Director | Enterprise & Solution Architecture | Former Sr. VP & CTO of MF Utilities | BU Soft Tech | itTrident
All types of businesses and sectors can fall below the cybersecurity poverty line for different reasons, but generally, healthcare, start-ups, small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), education, local governments, and industrial companies all tend to struggle the most with cybersecurity poverty, says Alex Applegate ... These include wide, cumbersome, and outdated networks in healthcare, small IT departments and immature IT processes in smaller companies/start-ups, vast network requirements in educational institutions, statutory obligations and limitations on budget use in local governments, and custom software built around specific functionality and configurations in industrial businesses, he adds. Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) firms and charities also commonly find themselves below the cybersecurity poverty line, for similar reasons. The University of Portsmouth Cybercrime Awareness Clinic’s work with SMEs for the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealed that cybersecurity was a secondary issue for most micro and small businesses it engaged with, evidence that it is often the smallest companies that find themselves below the poverty line, Karagiannopoulos says.
Test engineers are usually perfectionists (I speak from my experience), that’s why it’s difficult for them to take a risk of issues possibly reaching end users. This approach has a hefty price tag and impacts the speed of delivery, but it’s acceptable if you deliver only once or twice per month. The correct approach would be automating critical paths in application both from a business perspective and application reliability. Everything else can go to production without thorough testing because with continuous deployment, you can fix issues within hours or minutes. For example, if item sorting and filtering stops working in production, users might complain, but the development team could fix this issue quickly. Would it impact business? Probably not. Would you lose a customer? Probably not. These are the risks that should be OK to take if you can quickly fix issues in production. Of course, it all depends on the context – if you’re providing document storing services for legal investigations, it would be a good idea to have an automated test for sorting and filtering.
With organizations beginning to ask teams to do more with less, optimization — of all kinds — is going to become a vital part of what technology teams (development and operations alike) have to do. But for that to be really effective, team autonomy also needs to be founded on confidence — you need to know that what you’re investing time, energy and money on makes sense from the perspective of the organization’s wider goals. Fortunately, Spot can help here too. It gives teams the data they need to make decisions about automation, so they can prioritize according to what matters most from a strategic perspective. “People aren’t really sure what’s going to be happening six, nine, 10 months down the road.” Harris says. “Making it easier for people to get that actionable data no matter what part of the business you’re in, so that you can go in and you can say, ‘Here’s what we’re doing right, here’s where we can optimize’ — that’s a big focus for us.” One of the ways that Spot enables greater autonomy is with automation features.?
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For large organisations merging together, unifying networks and technologies may take years. But for SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) utilising more traditional technologies uch as VPNs, integrations may be accomplished more quickly and with less friction. In scenarios where both the acquiring company and the company being acquired utilise more sophisticated SD-WAN?networks, these technologies tend to be closed and proprietary in nature. Therefore, if both companies utilise the same vendor, integration can be managed more easily. On the other hand, if the vendors differ, it is not going to interlink with other networks as easily and needs a more careful step-by-step network transformation plan. ... Another key to a successful technology merger is to truly understand where your applications are going. For example, if two New York companies are joining forces, with most of the data and applications residing in the US East Coast, it wouldn’t make sense to interconnect networks in San Francisco. Along with this, it is important to make sure your regional networks are strong, even within your global network. In terms of where you are sending your traffic and data, it’s important to be as efficient as possible.
Service meshes don’t give an application’s runtime environment any additional features. Service meshes are unique in that they abstract the logic governing service-to-service communication to an infrastructure layer. This is accomplished by integrating a service mesh as a collection of network proxies into an application. proxies are frequently used to access websites. Typically, a company’s web proxy receives requests for a web page and evaluates them for security flaws before sending them on to the host server. Prior to returning to the user, responses from the page are also forwarded to the proxy for security checks.?... But service mesh is an essential management system that helps all the different containers to work in harmony. Here are several reasons why you will want to implement service mesh in an orchestration framework environment. In a typical orchestration framework environment, user requests are fulfilled through a series of steps, where each of the steps is performed by a container Each one runs a service that plays a different but vital role in fulfilling that request. Let us call this role played by each container a business logic.
Many organizations struggle to get visibility into where their most sensitive data is stored. Improper handling of that data can have disastrous consequences, such as compliance violations or trade secrets falling into the wrong hands. “Using chaos engineering could help identify vulnerabilities that, unless remediated, could be exploited by bad actors within minutes,” Benjamin says. Kelly Shortridge, senior principal of product technology at Fastly, says organizations can use chaos engineering to generate evidence of their systems’ resilience against adverse scenarios, like attacks. “By conducting experiments, you can proactively understand how failure unfolds, rather than waiting for a real incident to occur,” she says. The very nature of experiments requires curiosity -- the willingness to learn from evidence -- and flexibility so changes can be implemented based on that evidence. “Adopting security chaos engineering helps us move from a reactive posture, where security tries to prevent all attacks from ever happening, to a proactive one in which we try to minimize incident impact and continuously adapt to attacks,” she notes.