In May of this year 2018 the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will enter into force, which will be mandatory in all countries of the European Union. This new regulation will affect all companies, located in Europe or doing business in the EU, that handle personal information of any kind. Failure to comply with these regulations will be penalized with fines reaching up to 20 million euros.
Since the beginning of the year, the alarms about the existence and effects of Meltdown and Spectre have been raised, news related to these attacks do not stop popping out. The latest information suggests that the patches for the fourth and fifth generation Intel Haswell and Broadwell processors may cause unexpected reboots in their system. Amazon Web Services (AWS) neither has had much luck with its patches against these security flaws since they are affecting the performance of their cloud servers.
The company Snyk has released a report that analyzes The State of Open Source Security focusing on three main areas: the Open Source panorama, the life cycle of a vulnerability detected in Open Source and the future of this type of software.
In the world of VDI, balance is also essential when it comes to user experience and security. Unfortunately for VDI administrators, there is no all-powerful chosen one who can swoop in and deliver the balance they need. One of the measures for securing your VDI is to allocate enough hardware resources to ensure virtual desktops perform at least as well as physical desktops do.
Printers and multifunction printers (MFPs) are not immune to the security threat and are vulnerable to the same risks as any device on the network. As IoT devices they are susceptible to the growing threat of DDoS attacks – left unsecured they are an open door to the corporate network.
Millions of IT professionals have been praising desktop Linux for ages for some reasons that privacy is a new one of them. Chrome OS and Android, for example, are Linux distributions, but they perform at full power only with an internet connection.
