CRN | March 30, 2020
RedSeal has received a 5-Star rating from CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, in its 2020 Partner Program Guide. This annual guide lists the best partner programs from technology companies. The 5-Star rating is awarded to an elite group of technology suppliers in the IT channel that provide the best of the best — maximum value and support for solution providers.
As I watch the drama on the news unfold it is striking to me how similar the tactics for defending against a spreading virus are to cyber defense.
Washing your hands equates almost exactly to cyber hygiene tactics like patching.
Social distancing is nothing more than putting barriers up to prevent the spread of attacks, which is called network segmentation in the cyber world.
What do we do in the cyber world when a system is infected? We quarantine it and try to determine what else could have been infected. Unfortunately for the physical world, there is no automated way to make sure people are practicing proper hygiene, maintaining proper distancing, and isolating infected and vulnerable people. Fortunately, this is not the case for cyber warriors, where RedSeal automates all these arduous tasks.
With RedSeal’s cyber terrain analytics platform and professional services, government agencies improve their resilience to security events by understanding what’s on their networks, how it’s all connected, and the associated risk. RedSeal verifies that network devices are securely configured; validates network segmentation policies; and continuously monitors compliance with policies and regulations. RedSeal continually checks to see if a network’s segmentation is working as designed, ranks end point vulnerabilities in order of risk, and adds knowledge of your network to determine how accessible the vulnerability is to untrusted networks and what it will expose if compromised.
So, when a breach does occur, the RedSeal can tell you exactly what is exposed to an attack and deliver the information needed to contain it.
If only the real world had this capability, I might be able to eat at my favorite restaurant tonight.
Click here to lean more about Cyber Hygiene with RedSeal.
JMP Securities | March 20, 2020
RedSeal has been named to the JMP Securities Elite 80 report (formerly Super 70) for the fourth year in a row. The list recognizes the most interesting and strategically positioned private companies in the Cybersecurity, Data Management & IT Infrastructure industries.
Security Today | March 18, 2020
RedSeal has been named the Platinum award winner of the Juniper Research’s Future Digital Awards in the category of “Best Network Protection Solution.” Since 2008, the Future Digital Awards have been awarded to tech companies at the forefront of their respective fields: companies that deliver imaginative, innovative products or services that have the potential to disrupt their ecosystems and provide significant benefits to their target audience.
CXO Insight ME | March 2020 (Pages 36-37)
Dr. Mike Lloyd, CTO at RedSeal, on how to protect your supply chain from cyberattacks.
“The supply chain combatted the challenge of repeatable quality through standards and audits – organisations establish baselines of what it takes to make a reliable product, and then build the supply chain around those who can meet the standard. The time has come for comparable efforts around cybersecurity and digital resilience across the supply chain.”
ITProPortal | March 18, 2020
In my travels, I’ve met cybersecurity professionals from many different backgrounds. That’s not so surprising – it’s a relatively new profession only recently taught in universities, and it takes on the order of ten years of on-the-job training to become an expert. Most seasoned cybersecurity veterans came from some other discipline. I moved into cybersecurity from epidemiology, studying how disease spreads. There are some surprising and interesting parallels between cybersecurity and epidemiology – starting from the point that most people really don’t want to talk to you about the icky stuff that you spend your time on until they face a real crisis and suddenly demand answers!
Security Today | March 18, 2020
RedSeal has been named a Platinum winner of Security Today’s Govies Government Security Award in both “Network Security” and “Security & Risk Intelligence” categories. Security Today magazine is the only integrated product and technology magazine reaching the entire security market and the awards honor outstanding government security products in a variety of categories.
Morning Consult | March 17, 2020
By Ray Rothrock, RedSeal CEO
On March 11, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission released its long-awaited report, which provides more than 80 policy recommendations for “defending the United States in cyberspace against cyberattacks of significant consequences.” While the report is over 180 pages, Senator Angus King (I-Maine) said the report can be summed up in four words — define, develop, defend and deter. I would simplify this further, as these four words can be condensed into one concept: digital resilience.
FedScoop | March 16, 2020
Agencies that have built network infrastructure over decades may not be doing enough to manage basic cyber-hygiene practices and stay ahead of modern threats, cautions a new report.
When out-of-date configuration rules lurk on networks, attackers essentially have a back door to walk into government systems. However, modern network modeling platforms, capable of integrating into existing infrastructure, can help agency IT departments identify and manage cyber risks and accelerate essential hygiene practices.
The Customs and Border Protection agency recently announced an official 2020-2025 strategy to accomplish their mission to “protect the American people and facilitate trade and travel.”
The strategy comprises only three goals, one of which is to invest in technology and partnerships to confront emerging threats. This includes an IT Infrastructure that provides fast and reliable access to resilient, secure infrastructure to streamline CBP work.
So, of everything CBP wants to accomplish in the next five years, delivering a resilient, secure infrastructure is right near the top.
Both Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report and Crowdstrike’s Global Threat Report agree that more than 90 percent of intrusions are due to failures in basic, continuous cyber fundamentals. These include patching, ensuring network devices are deployed securely, and firewall rules and access control lists enforce the network segmentation you intended.
These cybersecurity fundamentals can be tedious and repetitive, but they are the foundation of security and beyond that, cyber resilience.
Cyber resilience has three parts:
RedSeal is a solution purpose built to improve and track resilience.
We give you a way to measure resilience and improve the security of your infrastructure.
RedSeal’s cyber terrain analytics platform identifies cyber defensive gaps, runs continuous virtual penetration tests to measure readiness, and helps an organization capture a map of its entire network infrastructure. The RedSeal platform delivers continuous monitoring through the collection and correlation of change, configuration assessment and vulnerability exposure information. Turning these capabilities into cyber resilience measurements gives managers, boards of directors and executive management the understandable and actionable security metrics they need to drive towards digital resilience.
Cyberattack surfaces and complexity are only expanding as all commercial, US government and DOD networks modernize and move to cloud and software defined networks (SDN). Automating the basics so organizations and departments can be digitally resilient continuously in the face of an attack has never been more necessary.
To ensure its IT infrastructure is resilient and secure as it is rolled out, the CBP needs to focus on mastering the cyber fundamentals and measuring that progress by deploying RedSeal’s cyber terrain analytics platform. Click here to learn more.