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Accenture Managing Director, Security
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Dan Mellen joined Accenture's security technologies organization in 1999. During his tenure, he has worked with clients in public service, retail, financial services, utilities, pharmaceuticals, communications, and high tech to find security solutions to meet their business needs. Dan has knowledge and experience in a variety of information security disciplines including security assessments, enterprise security architecture, compliance management, threat and vulnerability management, cloud, and industrial control system security. For the past several years, Dan has focused his experiences in extended enterprise security, helping Accenture strategy and client organizations integrate cloud, mobile and social platform security. Dan was responsible for the development of the Accenture Cloud & Mobile Security Ecosystem - offering a use case-based environment for client demonstrations, proof of concepts and product integration prototyping. Dan is a graduate of The University of Virginia, with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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High Stress Levels Impacting CISOs Physically, Mentally
Jai Vijayan, Freelance writer,  2/14/2019
Valentine's Emails Laced with Gandcrab Ransomware
Kelly Sheridan, Staff Editor, Dark Reading,  2/14/2019
New Free Tool Scans for Chrome Extension Safety
Dark Reading Staff 2/21/2019
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CVE-2018-1944
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-21
IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2 through 5.2.4.1 Virtual Appliance contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key, which it uses for its own inbound authentication, outbound communication to external components, or encryption of internal data. IBM X-For...
CVE-2018-1945
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-21
IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2 through 5.2.4.1 Virtual Appliance could allow a remote attacker to hijack the clicking action of the victim. By persuading a victim to visit a malicious Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to hijack the victim's click act...
CVE-2018-1946
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-21
IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2 through 5.2.4.1 Virtual Appliance supports interaction between multiple actors and allows those actors to negotiate which algorithm should be used as a protection mechanism such as encryption or authentication, but it does not select the stronges...
CVE-2018-1947
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-21
IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2 through 5.2.4.1 Virtual Appliance is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure withi...
CVE-2018-1948
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-21
IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2 through 5.2.4.1 Virtual Appliance does not set the secure attribute on authorization tokens or session cookies. Attackers may be able to get the cookie values by sending a http:// link to a user or by planting this link in a site the user goes to...