Microsoft unveils All-New Secure Mode in latest version of Edge

Microsoft in a recent announcement has stated that it has launched a ‘Super Duper Secure Mode’ in its recent version of Edge browser, which will offer users greater protection against common vulnerabilities and security breaches. The latest Super Duper Secure Mode (SDSM) will help users alleviate browser attacks by inactivating the Just-In-Time component in V8.

V8 is a new technology that has been linked with a large number of security vulnerabilities in recent years. It is a robust and open-source JavaScript engine, designed and developed by the Chromium Project for Google Chrome and Chromium web browser. This technology will allow the engines to convert vital JavaScript into machine code, resulting in huge gains in speed and usability but losses for security.

In order to defend and overcome the plethora of bugs bundled V8, Super Duper Secure Mode will disable the engine, thereby removing "roughly half" of the issues present. Moreover, it also enables users to toggle between Balanced and Strict modes, giving them greater control over the encrypted security codes and allowing them to mitigate through different web sources.

 

Nexon Asia Pacific Strengthens Its Security Offering With New Acquisition

A leading cloud and managed service provider Nexon Asia Pacific has announced that it has acquired Equate Technologies for an undisclosed sum to improve its security offerings. The latter is a cybersecurity, risk and consulting solutions provider based out of Brisbane, Australia.

"Cyber threats are more sophisticated, coordinated, and targeted today. Our clients require the expertise and capabilities to secure their environments with access to next-generation capabilities. Equate Technologies augments our offering and capability to deliver scalable, end-to-end proactive cyber security services as part of our comprehensive advisory and managed services," said Barry Assaf, Nexon Asia Pacific CEO.

Founded in 2013, Equate Technologies has incredible experience in delivering integrated cybersecurity solutions. The company's has built a great reputation for itself by helping its clients secure and protect their critical assets. Nexon Asia Pacific has extensive experience in delivering world-class onshore managed and professional security services to Australia's large and mid-market organizations.

Now, under Nexon Asia Pacific's wing, Equate Technologies has the platform, resources, and financial banking to extend its geographic reach and expand its service offerings.

 

Juniper jumps into Secure Access Service Edge market with its Security Director Cloud portal

Juniper has announced that it is pursuing the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market with the unveiling of its Security Director Cloud portal. The portal encompasses access to both network and security services wherever a customer needs them. Besides, it can also manage customers' ongoing SASE transformations. The new portal solution offers managed security both on-premises and in the cloud.

With its multi-directional synchronization between cloud-hosted and on-premises management, zero-touch provisioning and intuitive configuration wizards for secure connectivity are provided that will enhance content security and advanced threat prevention. It also can enable unified policies across physical, virtual, and cloud-based security, including user-based and application-based access, as they move to new locations.

In addition to security policy flexibility, Juniper added that it would provide cyberattack protection proven by third-party testing programs to be more than 99 percent effective against network and application exploits, commodity malware, IoT botnets, and other attack techniques targeted at the edge and data center. Juniper aims to create a comprehensive attack timeline and helps mitigate action that has to be taken to cover security weaknesses and breaches.

 

4 Good Reasons to Use a Drone for Security in Your Industrial Facility

Considering the level of technology powering an automated industrial drone, it isn’t hard to imagine that one would make for an excellent addition to your industrial security. These drones fly without a pilot for both scheduled and on-demand missions, they perform their own maintenance like battery charging and swapping and changing sensors, and they’re always ready to respond. If you’re wondering exactly how security drones can impact your organization’s security, there are a number of reasons they are about to become an inexorable part of nearly every industrial organization’s security plan, and the next four are some of the biggest.

#1. Your CCTV system is good, but it isn’t perfect 

Considering the cost-efficiency of CCTV systems and the wide swathes of visibility they provide, CCTV security systems are frankly quite good in most industrial settings. They do have a couple of significant downfalls, however. One is the blind spots they suffer from, and another is that though some systems have moving cameras, they really aren’t dynamic solutions.

Industrial security drones are the perfect complement to CCTV systems because they provide visibility into all the areas that aren’t reached by CCTV, like behind objects, around structures and in tight spaces. Industrial security drones are also a dynamic security solution that can react to emerging or suspected situations to provide additional awareness wherever necessary, whenever necessary, including intruder detection and tracking.

#2. Not all your facilities are centralized

 When you have uncentralized or even remote facilities, sites or assets, it can be either cost prohibitive or logistically impossible to include those sites in your standard security plans and protocols, and it can seem unreasonable to station security personnel so far from your main operations. 

These are the types of sites that are made for industrial drone security, particularly the kind provided by automated drones that can fly both VLOS and BVLOS missions without requiring a pilot. Having an automated drone flying regularly scheduled and on-demand security rounds at these facilities provides your security team with a dynamic and responsive security tool, one that can provide essential information in the event a security or police response is required

#3. You worry for your security personnel 

Security personnel in industrial facilities face a number of risks. Intruders, thieves, terrorists and saboteurs have the potential to strike at any industrial site, not to mention the risks that stem from equipment, emissions, falls and other hazardous conditions. 

It isn’t reasonable to think that most industrial organizations can simply eliminate security personnel due to the risks they face. Most sites and facilities require a human response on a regular basis. However, an industrial drone can fly ahead of your security personnel to any emerging or unfolding incident and immediately begin transmitting the kind of essential information that gives personnel the upper hand when approaching dangerous situations. 

For example, when entering a room where an intruder is hiding, instead of attempting to search the room themselves to locate the suspect who may or may not be armed, an industrial drone can transmit the intruder’s exact location as well as his actions and any visible weaponry through a live video feed. 

#4. There are high stakes for your emergency response 

Maybe it goes without saying that there are high stakes for any emergency response. However, with the kind of materials and equipment in use in many industrial facilities, many incidents have the potential to become disasters, and they have the potential to do so quickly. 

When a situation is unfolding, responders need to know exactly what the problem is, where it is, and how it can be fixed before it reaches a critical stage. The visibility into these issues that can be provided by an automated drone that is always ready to fly at a moment’s notice can be the difference between life and death and the difference between a minor issue and a catastrophe.

 Automatic security upgrade 

Upgrading an industrial security system used to be a daunting proposition, one that would require major equipment and infrastructure upgrades and the accompanying costs. With an automated industrial drone for security an organization can improve nearly every aspect of its security with just one smart solution that – for the most part – takes care of itself. If that isn’t an automatic upgrade, what is?