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prasannamaxmunus · 5 years ago

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MaxMunus ArcSight training for Capture or stream real-time data and Mitigate threats.

Micro Focus ArcSight training is designed to help you become an expert in working with ArcSight ESM platform in corporate environments.

Micro Focus ArcSight is a Cybersecurity product, first released in 2000, that provides big data security analytics and intelligence software for security information and event management (SIEM) and log management.

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nisatrainingsblog · 3 years ago

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Arcsight Online Training

After completion of Nisa’s Arcsight full online course you will get archsight certification course certificate.

Arcsight corporate course provide the in depth knowledge about arcsight SIEM platform, archsight ESM, archsight Express, Arcsight connectors. Archsight beginner tutorial provide knowledge through real time examples.

Components of Archsight corporate course are:

· Arcsight SIEM Platform

· ArcSight ESM

· ArcSight Express

· ArcSight Smart Connectors

Benefits of Arcsight corporate training are:

· Provides Information Security standards.

· Used to collect, identify and analyse the data.

· Logger Installation.

Some of the features of Arcsight online training are:

· Log source on boarding

· Log baselines

· Content creation

· Web Interference

Companies which are using archsight are: Northrop Grumman, Binary Defense, RTX, Raytheon, Atlas Air, Exabeam, QA Limited, Social Security Administration, Lorven Technologies.

Nisa is an online corporate training platform that provides a online training for IT environment. We offer various online certification courses. We stayed competitive since our journey started. We stand out as the best in the market for real-time hands on-experience given to the students. Archsight online course is an online training where students have trained 1:1 ratio online. Nisa also provides archsight study material to students for their reference. Recorded sessions are also provided to the students that help them to practice through it at their convenience. We works 24/7 to support our clients. As we have arcsight experts and experienced trainers who have been working on real-time projects.

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ecorptrainings · 7 years ago

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ArcSight ESM Administrator provides you with in-depth information about an ArcSight ESM installation with detailed instructions for performing administrative related tasks within ArcSight ESM.ArcSight ESM is the premiere security event manager that analyzes and correlates every event in order to help your IT SOC team with security event monitoring, from compliance and risk management to security intelligence and operations.

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avishek429 · 4 years ago

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ArcSight Online Training By MaxMunus!!

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ArcSight provides a suite of tools for SIEM—security information and event management. The best-known seems to be ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), described as the "brain" of the SIEM platform. It is a log analyzer and correlation engine designed to sift out important network events.

In MaxMunus's ArcSight SIEM Corporate Training, you will learn about:

ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) solution

Event Schema, and Life Cycle

ESM Console

ESM Command Center

Web Interference

ESM 5.2 Administration

Logger Administration

ESM workflow

This Micro Focus ArcSight Training is designed to help you become an expert in working with the ArcSight ESM platform in corporate environments. HP ArcSight is one of the top 5 SIEM tools in today’s market. Talking about SIEM, Software products, and services come together and form security information management (SIM). On the other hand, we have Security event management services (SEM). SIM & SEM club together themselves and form SIEM (security information and event management). SIEM does a real-time analysis of threats detected by application and network hardware.

Micro Focus Arcsight is basically a product on cybersecurity. It provides an analysis of bigdata and provides intelligence software for SIEM and log management. Micro Focus Arcsight provides a real-time application-level threat to an organization.

ArcSight ESM does analysis and correlates all event which occurs across the organization-every login, logoff, file access, database query-to deliver on the priority of security risks and compliance violations.

Network defense system is managed by the TippingPoint product. TippingPoint Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) will cater to new problems that arise with cloud and mobile computing.

Our Micro Focus ArcSight Online Training course covers ArcSight Event Schema and Lifecycle, ESM Console, ESM Installation and Configuration, ArcSight Content Management, Active Channels, Filters, and FieldSets, Workflow Cases, etc.

Complete Customization of HP ArcSight training’s course content is possible for Individual students and for Corporate. Micro Focus ArcSight Online training is available for individuals and for corporate we may arrange the classroom as well. For more information regarding Micro Focus

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ArcSight is one of the fast-growing technologies in the market right now, with a huge scope for career growth.

Many of the Fortune 500 companies are using ArcSight in their deployments.

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terabitweb · 5 years ago

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Original Post from SC Magazine Author: Doug Olenick

These women started in different places and have been navigating the changing security landscape long enough to be considered veterans, navigating pitfalls and seizing opportunities as they’ve come along.

Celeste Fralick chief data scientist and senior principal engineer, McAfee

Even for the 1980s, Celeste Fralick’s first job in data science was a bit old-fashioned. At Texas Instruments it was her job as a quality engineer to implement Statistical Process Control, a technique that had been invented way back in the 1920s. Flash forward nearly 40 years later, and now she’s right on the bleeding edge, studying adversarial machine learning to fend off digital attacks that haven’t even been invented yet.

As chief data scientist and senior principal engineer at McAfee, Fralick chairs the cybersecurity company’s Analytic Center of Excellence, overseeing technical analytic strategy for consumer and enterprise products. After 22 years at Intel Corporation, she took on this new role in 2017 when her company rebranded its Intel Security unit into McAfee – fully embracing this new opportunity despite a cancer diagnosis that was successfully treated but still requires lifelong chemotherapy.

At present, Fralick’s team is focused on preventing machine learning-fueled attacks designed to defeat companies’ AI-based cyber defenses by manipulating their data and algorithms, so that malware can sneak into the enterprise, undetected. Just this past March, Fralick addressed the threat in a keynote session at the RSA conference, where she co-presented with McAfee CTO Steve Grobman.

Named one of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech by Forbes in late 2018 for her contributions to cybersecurity, Fralick is also author of the book “Intelligence Analytics: Bringing Analytics to the Internet of Things.” – Bradley Barth

Yogita Parulekar head of information security, Pear Therapeutics

Yogita Parulekar describes becoming a security professional as a “happy accident.”

Parulekar earned a business degree in the 1990s and not long after that began working as a manager at consultancy Ernst & Young, focusing on risk management.

“My ex-boss called me and excitedly told me about Ernst & Young and about the technology audit and risk field and how it would be a very good field for me,” Parulekar explains.

Parulekar began taking courses on the side, got involved in the Silicon Valley Chapter of ISACA and for much of the 2000s worked for Oracle as director of security and head of IT audit. Later she worked as a consultant and then at ThreatMetrix before landing in her current position with Pear Therapeutics.

When asked what it would take to encourage more women to enter the cybersecurity field, Parulekar recalls a change former Cisco CEO John Chambers made at one of the companies he invested in.

“Chambers made a simple policy change,” she says. “The idea was that for every open position, the managers would interview at least one woman. She may or may not get the job, but over time, more women will get a chance to get a seat at the table.”

Parulekar has become a strong advocate for the concept of “security by design” and speaks on the topic at many industry conferences.

“It’s important for leadership to set the right tone,” Parulekar says. “We can make better security products, but we have to build in security and privacy in the design phase. I spend a lot of my time evangelizing those ideas.” – Steve Zurier

Becky Pinkard vice president of intelligence and IT, Digital Shadows

Becky Pinkard leads the Digital Shadows Threat Intelligence team of more than 35 analysts who speak more than 20 languages and has taken the lead at the company by founding the Digital Shadows Women’s Network which launched in June 2018 with the goal to promote inclusivity and diversity to create equal opportunities within and outside Digital Shadows. Pinkard is passionate about security, women in security and bringing awareness. Craig Ellis, the company’s head of cybersecurity and IT called Pinkard a great advocate, adding that her enthusiasm is second to none.

Her dedication to women in security was rewarded with the Women in IT Awards Security Champion of the Year in 2016. In September 2018, she cofounded Women Empowering Diversity in Startups (WEDS). The network was founded by women in startups who believe that diversity and inclusion of all kinds are essential and drive happiness and success in the workplace. At her company she launched the Digital Shadows Women’s Network alongside CEO Alastair Paterson. That network is a key part of Digital Shadows’ broader diversity initiative, and aims to continue the company’s tradition of being a very female-friendly workplace, encouraging more women into the cybersecurity industry. – Doug Olenick

Haiyan Song senior vice president, general manager, security markets, Splunk

When Haiyan Song joined Splunk in 2014, she leveraged her decades of experience in the security space to help transform the data analytics firm into a leading provider of security solutions, growing that portion of the business from $100 million in revenue to over $1 billion.

In her more than five years on the job as SVP and GM of security markets, Song has grown her team by 700-plus percent, while helping land Splunk in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SIEM for six straight years. She also oversaw the strategic acquisitions of security players Caspida and Phantom.

Previously the vice president of engineering at cybersecurity solution provider ArcSight, Song became vice president and general manager of ArcSight HP Enterprise Security Products after the company’s acquisition by HP. Prior to that, she held VP or directorial roles at SenSage, Omniva Policy Systems, Ketera Technologies, Escalate and Informix.

A strong advocate for hiring more women into the cybersecurity workforce, Song was recently was honored as one of the San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women in Business and has made the National Diversity Council’s Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech list for three years running.

– Bradley Barth

Annette Warren president, iSECURE

A “working president,” Annette Warren can be found side by side with her executive team participating in all aspects of iSECURE’s business. With nearly 25 years in the tech industry – leading one of the first local ISP and VoIP companies in Rochester – she was the first in the region to host events with national cybersecurity pioneers. Warren is known for creative problem solving and leveraging her partners to address security issues.

She’s a member of the Rochester Chapter of ISSA (Information Security Systems Association) and for four years has graced the board of the Rochester Security Summit, a community-based cybersecurity event. Along with her team she is a member of The Western New York Society for Information Management (SIM). She has served as mentors for students in grades 9–12 at Edison Tech in the Pathways in Technology (P-TECH) program. A passionate advocate of STEM, she has participated in Rochester Institute’s WiC (Woman in Computing) Hackathon.

Warren also helped develop the security certificate program at Monroe Community College. She holds certifications from Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE), Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) and Women Owned Small Business (WOSB). – Teri Robinson

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abckidstvyara · 7 years ago

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There is a familiar trope in Hollywood cyberwarfare movies. A lone whiz kid hacker (often with blue, pink, or platinum hair) fights an evil government. Despite combatting dozens of cyber defenders, each of whom appears to be working around the clock and has very little need to use the facilities, the hacker is able to defeat all security and gain access to the secret weapon plans or whatever have you. The weapon stopped, the hacker becomes a hero.

The real world of security operations centers (SOCs) couldn’t be further from this silver screen fiction. Today’s hackers (who are the bad guys, by the way) don’t have the time to custom hack a system and play cat-and-mouse with security professionals. Instead, they increasingly build a toolbox of automated scripts and simultaneously hit hundreds of targets using, say, a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability and trying to take advantage of it as much as possible before it is patched.

Security analysts working in a SOC are increasingly overburdened and overwhelmed by the sheer number of attacks they have to process. Yet, despite the promises of automation, they are often still using manual processes to counter these attacks. Fighting automated attacks with manual actions is like fighting mechanized armor with horses: futile.

Nonetheless, that’s the current state of things in the security operations world, but as V.Jay LaRosa, the VP of Global Security Architecture of payroll and HR company ADP explained to me, “The industry, in general from a SOC operations perspective, it is about to go through a massive revolution.”

That revolution is automation. Many companies have claimed that they are bringing machine learning and artificial intelligence to security operations, and the buzzword has been a mainstay of security startup pitch decks for some times. Results in many cases have been nothing short of lackluster at best. But a new generation of startups is now replacing soaring claims with hard science, and focusing on the time-consuming low-hanging fruit of the security analyst’s work.

One of those companies, as we will learn shortly, is JASK. The company, which is based in San Francisco and Austin, wants to create a new market for what it calls the “autonomous security operations center.” Our goal is to understand the current terrain for SOCs, and how such a platform might fit into the future of cybersecurity.

Data wrangling and the challenge of automating security

The security operations center is the central nervous system of corporate security departments today. Borrowing concepts from military organizational design, the modern SOC is designed to fuse streams of data into one place, giving security analysts a comprehensive overview of a company’s systems. Those data sources typically include network logs, an incident detection and response system, web application firewall data, internal reports, antivirus, and many more. Large companies can easily have dozens of data sources.

Once all of that information has been ingested, it is up to a team of security analysts to evaluate that data and start to “connect the dots.” These professionals are often overworked since the growth of the security team is generally reactive to the threat environment. Startups might start with a single security professional, and slowly expand that team as new threats to the business are discovered.

Given the scale and complexity of the data, investigating a single security alert can take significant time. An analyst might spend 50 minutes just pulling and cleaning the necessary data to be able to evaluate the likelihood of a threat to the company. Worse, alerts are sufficiently variable that the analyst often has to repeatedly perform this cleanup work for every alert.

Data wrangling is one of the most fundamental problems that every SOC faces. All of those streams of data need to be constantly managed to ensure that they are processed properly. As LaRosa from ADP explained, “The biggest challenge we deal with in this space is that [data] is transformed at the time of collection, and when it is transformed, you lose the raw information.” The challenge then is that “If you don’t transform that data properly, then … all that information becomes garbage.”

The challenges of data wrangling aren’t unique to security — teams across the enterprise struggle to design automated solutions. Nonetheless, just getting the right data to the right person is an incredible challenge. Many security teams still manually monitor data streams, and may even write their own ad-hoc batch processing scripts to get data ready for analysis.

Managing that data inside the SOC is the job of a security information and event management system (SIEM), which acts as a system of record for the activities and data flowing through security operations. Originally focused on compliance, these systems allow analysts to access the data they need, and also log the outcome of any alert investigation. Products like ArcSight and Splunk and many others here have owned this space for years, and the market is not going anywhere.

Due to their compliance focus though, security management systems often lack the kinds of automated features that would make analysts more efficient. One early response to this challenge was a market known as user entity behavior analytics (UEBA). These products, which include companies like Exabeam, analyze typical user behavior and search for anomalies. In this way, they are meant to integrate raw data together to highlight activities for security analysts, saving them time and attention. This market was originally standalone, but as Gartner has pointed out, these analytics products are increasingly migrating into the security information management space itself as a sort of “smarter SIEM.”

These analytics products added value, but they didn’t solve the comprehensive challenge of data wrangling. Ideally, a system would ingest all of the security data and start to automatically detect correlations, grouping disparate data together into a cohesive security alert that could be rapidly evaluated by a security analyst. This sort of autonomous security has been a dream of security analysts for years, but that dream increasingly looks like it could become reality quite soon.

LaRosa of ADP told me that “Organizationally, we have got to figure out how we help our humans to work smarter.” David Tsao, Global Information Security Officer of Veeva Systems, was more specific, asking “So how do you organize data in a way so that a security engineer … can see how these various events make sense?”

JASK and the future of “autonomous security”

That’s where a company like JASK comes in. Its goal, simply put, is to take all the disparate data streams entering the security operations center and automatically group them into attacks. From there, analysts can then evaluate each threat holistically, saving them time and allowing them to focus on the sophisticated analytical part of their work, instead of on monotonous data wrangling.

The startup was founded by Greg Martin, a security veteran who perviously founded threat intelligence platform ThreatStream (now branded Anomali). Before that, he worked as an executive at ArcSight, a company that is one of the incumbent behemoths in security information management.

Martin explained to me that “we are now far and away past what we can do with just human-led SOCs.” The challenge is that every single security alert coming in has to go through manual review. “I really feel like the state of the art in security operations is really how we manufactured cars in the 1950s — hand-painting every car,” Martin said. “JASK was founded to just clean up the mess.”

Machine learning is one of these abused terms in the startup world, and certainly that is no exception in cybersecurity. Visionary security professionals wax poetic about automated systems that instantly detect a hacker as they attempt to gain access to the system and immediately respond with tested actions designed to thwart them. The reality is much less exciting: just connecting data from disparate sources is a major hurdle for AI researchers in the security space.

Martin’s philosophy with JASK is that the industry should walk before it runs. “We actually look to the autonomous car industry,” he said to me. “They broke the development roadmap into phases.” For JASK, “Phase one would be to collect all the data and prepare and identify it for machine learning,” he said. LaRosa of ADP, talking about the potential of this sort of automation, said that “you are taking forty to fifty minutes of busy work out of that process and allow [the security analysts] to get right to the root cause.”

This doesn’t mean that security analysts are suddenly out of a job, indeed far from it. Analysts still have to interpret the information that has been compiled, and even more importantly, they have to decide on what is the best course of action. Today’s companies are moving from “runbooks” of static response procedures to automated security orchestration systems. Machine learning realistically is far from being able to accomplish the full lifecycle of an alert today, although Martin is hopeful that such automation is coming in later phases of the roadmap.

Martin tells me that the technology is being used by twenty customers today. The company’s stack is built on technologies like Hadoop, allowing it to process significantly higher volumes of data compared to legacy security products.

JASK is essentially carving out a unique niche in the security market today, and the company is currently in beta. The company raised a $2m seed from Battery in early 2016, and a $12m series A led by Dell Technologies Capital, which saw its investment in security startup Zscaler IPO last week.

There are thousands of security products in the market, as any visit to the RSA conference will quickly convince you. Unfortunately though, SOCs can’t just be built with tech off the shelf. Every company has unique systems, processes, and threat concerns that security operations need to adapt to, and of course, hackers are not standing still. Products need to constantly change to adapt to those needs, which is why machine learning and its flexibility is so important.

Martin said that “we have to bias our algorithms so that you never trust any one individual or any one team. It is a careful controlled dance to build these types of systems to produce general purpose, general results that applies across organizations.” The nuance around artificial intelligence is refreshing in a space that can see incredible hype. Now the hard part is to keep moving that roadmap forward. Maybe that blue-haired silver screen hacker needs some employment.

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Is source code #inspection a #security risk? #Maybe not, experts say

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Moscow’s current demand to examine the supply code of American software program distributors supplying the Russian authorities doesn’t pose the extreme safety risk some are making it out to be, specialists say, emphasizing that whereas sharing supply code with a nation-state adversary does make it simpler for an attacker to search out safety flaws, supply code is way from the “keys to the dominion” for bug hunters.

At a time of heightened cyberespionage between the US and Russia, Moscow’s worries about attainable backdoors in American software program appear to be reputable issues that justify a request for supply code evaluate, specialists urged.

The controversy started in October, when the information broke that Hewlett Packard Enterprise let a Russian protection company evaluate the supply code for the corporate’s ArcSight SIEM providing (since offered to UK agency Micro Focus Worldwide Plc), broadly utilized in business and likewise by the Pentagon, in response to an October report by Reuters. The revelation sparked an outcry towards sharing supply code with overseas governments, and prompted Symantec’s CEO Greg Clark to inform Reuters “These are secrets and techniques, or issues essential to defend (software program). It’s greatest stored that approach.”

Nicely-known cybersecurity specialists questioned this tempest in a teapot, nonetheless. “As somebody who has hunted bugs for 15 years, having supply code is barely advantageous,” former NSA hacker Charlie Miller, greatest identified for stunt hacking a Jeep a number of years in the past, tweeted. “Counterintuitive however true,” former head of cybersecurity analysis at DARPA Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, agreed, “You discover fewer bugs analyzing supply code. You discover extra bugs evaluating binaries and augmenting with fuzzing.”

Having the supply code could make it simpler to determine weaker areas to focus on when researching vulnerabilities in software program, for instance, and builders generally depart behind helpful feedback within the code, like “come again and end this later,” that may assist attackers. Nevertheless, quite a bit can occur when compiling supply code, software safety specialists say. Safety flaws that seem to exist within the supply code may not exist within the compiled binary, and generally the compilation course of itself can introduce new, surprising vulnerabilities.

Because of this, software safety (appsec) researchers embody supply code evaluate as solely a small a part of on the lookout for safety flaws. That is the place fuzzing is available in.

Fuzzing assaults a operating binary executable by giving this system semi-random knowledge within the hope of inflicting an surprising error situation, or perhaps a crash. Analyzing surprising output might help researchers determine safety flaws. As a result of fuzzing may be automated, attackers can mount extremely efficient assaults towards complicated software program with out ever seeing the supply code.

“Fuzzing will get higher outcomes,” says Brian Knopf, senior director of safety analysis at Neustar. “That is the best way you discover a zero day. You are not discovering it with code evaluation.” Fuzzing, Knopf explains, is “throwing the whole lot and the kitchen sink at [a compiled binary], throwing junk and making an attempt to get one thing to come back out that should not come out.”

An adversary doesn’t want the supply code to have interaction in this type of appsec analysis. A overseas authorities that purchases American software program with out the supply code will nearly definitely fuzz important software program earlier than deploying it in manufacturing.

“If you take a look at the supply code, you see what might be,” says Daniel Miessler, director of advisory companies at IOActive. “If you’re fuzzing, particularly an software in manufacturing, you are seeing the fact of how that software presents to the world.”

Fuzzing has been known as a “dumb science” and lots of highly effective fuzzing instruments are freely accessible on-line for anybody to obtain and use. Fashionable fuzzers embody BurpSuite and Wapiti, each net vulnerability scanners; extensible fuzzing frameworks like Peach, SPIKE and Sulley; network-level protocol fuzzers like Scapy; and the ever-popular American fuzzy lop (AFL). Nation-state attackers with the human sources and finances, nonetheless, will do extra than simply fuzz important software program. They’ll reverse engineer it.

Reverse engineering is an efficient safety analysis device nicely inside attain of even small nation-state adversaries, says Columbia College professor Steven Bellovin. If you do not have the supply code, he says, “You may at all times reverse engineer it. There are superb reverse engineering instruments, well-known methods for understanding what compiled code does.”

Reverse engineering takes a compiled binary and, just like the title suggests, reverses the compilation course of to provide supply code — typically mangled and obscure, however supply code nonetheless. Malware researchers and antivirus firms, for instance, do a variety of reverse engineering as a part of their work, since viruses do not usually include supply code to evaluate.

Michael Sikorski, director of FireEye Labs Superior Reverse Engineering (FLARE) Staff, and creator of Sensible Malware Evaluation, agrees. “If you reverse malware, you are asking, ‘what does it do?’” he says. “It is the identical with industrial off-the-shelf software program. You are asking ‘what does it do?’ so you’ll find vulnerabilities.”

“I do not love the thought of giving supply code to a overseas authorities,” Knopf says, “but when they [HPE or Symantec or another American tech vendor] have taken care of their criticals and highs, even their mediums…yeah, I might agree with Mudge, [foreign governments] are going to fuzz it. They don’t seem to be going to discover a house run [zero day] with static evaluation.”

Safety flaws are usually rated on a severity scale from important (essentially the most harmful) down by excessive, medium, and low. Static evaluation usually refers to automated supply code evaluate.

There are good causes to ask for supply code evaluate that don’t have anything to do with looking zero-days, quite a few sources counsel. For his half, Sikorski agrees overseas authorities’s calls for for American supply code look quite a bit like due diligence. “We get a variety of requests from [American] firms saying, ‘We’re about to make this massive buy from nation XYZ. Are you able to inform us if this factor is backdoored?’” he says. “If it was me personally shopping for a product, I’d type of search for that as a request, ‘Hey, can I’ve your supply code?’ An ask from a overseas authorities shopping for code made abroad, it would not appear to be a wild ask.”

Bellovin suspects the current froth round sharing supply code with overseas governments is absolutely about stopping theft of mental property (IP), and never safety. “If I used to be answerable for Symantec [or another American tech vendor], I might be much more anxious concerning the IP challenge,” he says. “If the FSB [Russia’s Federal Security Service] needs to search out safety holes, they’ll do it anyway.”

This story, “Is supply code inspection a safety danger? Possibly not, specialists say” was initially printed by CSO.

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