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SecurityMetrics Wins Coveted Global InfoSec Awards for Cybersecurity Book, Penetration Testing, and Top Women in Cybersecurity

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OREM, Utah, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — SecurityMetrics is proud to announce that they have won the following awards from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine:

  • “Most Innovative Cybersecurity Book” for the SecurityMetrics Guide to PCI DSS Compliance.
  • “Editor’s Choice Penetration Testing” for their penetration testing team. 
  • “Top Women in Cybersecurity” awarded to Jen Stone.

“SecurityMetrics embodies three major features we judges look for to become winners: understanding tomorrow’s threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution, and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach” said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.

SecurityMetrics is thrilled to earn these awards from Cyber Defense Magazine (http://www.cyberdefenseawards.com/) because they demonstrate their commitment to helping organizations see the threats they’ve been missing and providing exceptional support and services to businesses worldwide. 

“Most Innovative Cybersecurity Book” for the SecurityMetrics Guide to PCI DSS compliance.

Audit Director, Matt Halbleib (CISSP, CISA, QSA), said of the seventh edition of the SecurityMetrics PCI guide: “Our guide was specifically created to help merchants and service providers address the most problematic issues within the 12 PCI DSS requirements, including auditors’ best practices and IT checklists.” 

You can access the SecurityMetrics free guide to PCI Compliance here. 

“Editor’s Choice Penetration Testing” for their penetration testing team. 

SecurityMetrics penetration testers use ethical hacking methodologies to identify vulnerabilities and minimize risk, protecting organizations against the most current threats.

Knowing the root cause of vulnerabilities is the first step to addressing network issues. SecurityMetrics Pen Test Analysts offer advice tailored to the company’s needs to remediate and maintain a secure network going forward. 

“SecurityMetrics’ Pen Testing has definitely helped us improve our network security in ways I could have never imagined. You just don’t know what you don’t know. I am absolutely…

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MIT selling 8 million coveted IPv4 addresses; Amazon a buyer

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MIT is selling half of its 16 million valuable IPv4 addresses – an increasingly scarce stash it has held since the birth of the Internet. While details of the sale have not been made public, at least some of those addresses have already been transferred to Amazon.

MIT says it will use the proceeds of the sale to finance its own IPv6 network upgrades and “support activities focused on the future of the Internet and the global cyber-infrastructure.”

From an announcement by Next Generation MITnet.

Fourteen million of these IPv4 addresses have not been used, and we have concluded that at least eight million are excess and can be sold without impacting our current or future needs, up to the point when IPv6 becomes universal and address scarcity is no longer an issue. The Institute holds a block of 20 times 10^30 (20 nonillion) IPv6 addresses.

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SophosLabs wins coveted Swiss prize

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The Swiss are known for their prestigious and generous gifts to those who achieve what others can only imagine. SophosLabs managed to impress the committee and earn one of these coveted prizes recently.
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