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The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness

Schneier on Security

In information technology, brittleness also results from the fact that hundreds of companies, none of which you;ve heard of, each perform a small but essential role in keeping the internet running. This brittleness is a result of market incentives. This is often a result of globalization and consolidation, but not always.

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News Alert: Security Risk Advisors joins Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA)

The Last Watchdog

Security Risk Advisors (SRA) is a leading cybersecurity firm dedicated to providing comprehensive security solutions to businesses worldwide. Security Risk Advisors SCALR XDR is both a platform, built on Microsoft Azure and a 247 monitoring service with Microsoft Sentinel. Philadelphia, Pa., Philadelphia, Pa., To learn more: [link].

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National Security Risks of Late-Stage Capitalism

Schneier on Security

The modern market economy, which aggressively rewards corporations for short-term profits and aggressive cost-cutting, is also part of the problem: Its incentive structure all but ensures that successful tech companies will end up selling insecure products and services. SolarWinds certainly seems to have underspent on security.

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News alert: Knocknoc raises seed funding to scale its just-in-time network access control technology

The Last Watchdog

The funding will support go-to-market, new staff, customer onboarding and product development. ” Knocknoc orchestrates network infrastructure to remove risk exposure by tying users’ network access to their SSO authentication status. . Sydney, Australia, Mar.

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Chinese-Made LiDAR Systems a National Security Risk, Think Tank Says

Security Boulevard

China's growing presence in the global market for LiDAR, a remote sensing technology widely used in defense and commercial system, presents a national security risk for the United States, which already is dealing with intrusions into critical infrastructure networks by China-backed threat groups, according to a reporte.

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Ted Chiang on the Risks of AI

Schneier on Security

as a broad set of technologies being marketed to companies to help them cut their costs, the question becomes: how do we keep those technologies from working as “capital’s willing executioners”? The question is worth considering across different meanings of the term “A.I.” If you think of A.I. Alternatively, if you imagine A.I.

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Why Businesses Must Address Risks of Quantum Computing NOW Rather Than Wait Until Problems Arrive

Joseph Steinberg

And, while today’s commercially-created quantum machines are nowhere near powerful enough to approach quantum supremacy, absolutely nobody knows the true extent of the quantum capabilities of all of the technologically-advanced governments around the world. Clearly, there is a need to act in advance – and acting takes time.

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