Welcome to Cyber Security Today. From Toronto, this is the Week in Review edition for the week ending April 15th, 2022, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. Thanks for tuning in on what is a long weekend in many countries.
In a few minutes guest commentator Terry Cutler, head of Montreal’s Cyology Labs, will join me to discuss some of what happened in the last seven days. But first a roundup some of the week’s headlines:
The annual Identity Management Day to raise awareness of this important security control was held earlier this week. Terry will weigh in with his thoughts of where IT leaders are going wrong with their identity and access management programs.
We’ll also take a look at last week’s news that FBI took out a botnet composed of compromised WatchGuard firewalls. There are two questions: Was it right for a U.S. court to give the FBI permission to remotely defang devices without the permission of user organizations? And did WatchGuard customers have enough notice that a security update needed to be installed?
And we’ll also delve into a report about how undetected threat actors spent five months roaming…
