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Senior Director of Security and IT at Distil Networks
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As Senior Director of Security and IT at Distil Networks, Chris Nelson leads the security and compliance initiatives across the organization by the use of permaculture for design of policy, standards, audit, and risk assessment. He works with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to ensure solutions meet all legal, regulatory, contractual, and security obligations, and is responsible for managing Distil's PCI-DSS 3.2 and ISO 27001 regulatory requirements and control framework implementation. Chris also implemented security into the development lifecycle for all platforms across the company, including training and awareness, application security, securing the Agile development lifecycle, and integrating security into DevOps practices.
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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
Making the Case for a Cybersecurity Moon Shot
Adam Shostack, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Technologist, Game Designer,  2/19/2019
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CVE-2019-1659
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-21
A vulnerability in the Identity Services Engine (ISE) integration feature of Cisco Prime Infrastructure (PI) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack against the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) tunnel established between ISE and PI. The vulnerability is due to...
CVE-2019-8983
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-21
MDaemon Webmail 14.x through 18.x before 18.5.2 has XSS (issue 1 of 2).
CVE-2019-8984
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-21
MDaemon Webmail 14.x through 18.x before 18.5.2 has XSS (issue 2 of 2).
CVE-2018-20122
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-21
The web interface on FASTGate Fastweb devices with firmware through 0.00.47_FW_200_Askey 2017-05-17 (software through 1.0.1b) exposed a CGI binary that is vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability that can be exploited to achieve remote code execution with root privileges. No authentication is...
CVE-2018-6687
PUBLISHED: 2019-02-21
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in McAfee GetSusp (GetSusp) 3.0.0.461 and earlier allows attackers to DoS a manual GetSusp scan via while scanning a specifically crafted file . GetSusp is a free standalone McAfee tool that runs on several versions of Microsoft Windows.