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Sullivan County uses NYSSOC to combat cybersecurity threats

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Cybersecurity threats are a worldwide issue.

New York state is working to combat this with its New York State Security Operations Center (NYSSOC).

What You Need To Know

  • Sullivan County is the first county to start utilizing the NYSSOC

  • The NYSSOC facility is based in Brooklyn and dedicated to detecting and responding to real-time threats 24/7

  • Tompkins County will be the next to launch it, and 45 counties have shown interest in subscribing to NYSSOC

Sullivan County is the first county to start utilizing the NYSSOC.

It allows the state to monitor for cyber threats with a goals of preventing them and improving responses to incidents.

“The county, as well as the state, as well as the nation, are under attack constantly from foreign adversaries just looking to wreak havoc on the infrastructure and environment that we work in and with. So, it’s important for us to know what’s happening quickly, to be able to respond quickly, and to mitigate those risks as quickly as possible,” said Commissioner of Information Technology Services and CIO for Sullivan County Lorne Green.

The NYSSOC facility is based in Brooklyn and is dedicated to detecting and responding to real-time threats 24/7.

“Anything that they see that, you know, red flags, anything, even some minor occurrences that go through, they will alert us. And then, we can take action on those to either let them know that this is a low priority, high priority, medium, and then, whatever that comes through as, we can take action,” said Deputy CIO for Sullivan County Dan Smith.

Officials said Sullivan County went live with NYSSOC in late March. It was selected due to relationships with New York State Homeland Security and the State’s Center for Internet Security.

Officials collected log data from security appliances and servers to feed to NYSSOC to get the project rolling.

“They then parch that data and put it into their recording solution for analysis and further determination as to whether or not there are any incidents that need to be addressed,” Green said.

One of the major aspects of this effort is ensuring threats are being tracked even when local information technology services staff members are not…

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Jake Sullivan served on a national security board with Hunter Biden for 2 years, raising questions from GOP

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Hunter Biden and President Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, served together on the board of the Truman National Security Project, a liberal foreign policy think tank, for roughly two years before Sullivan joined the president’s campaign in 2020.

Hunter, who started serving on the board in 2012, and Sullivan both served on the Washington-based nonprofit’s board between 2017 and early 2019, according to internet archives captured by the Wayback Machine. 

During that time, Hunter was also serving on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings and the Chinese private equity fund BHR Partners. The federal investigation into Hunter’s foreign business dealings, which is still ongoing, also launched during the same time frame in 2018. 

Prior to joining the Truman National Security Project, Sullivan served as then-Vice President Biden’s national security adviser in the Obama administration, where he traveled to multiple countries with the elder Biden, including China. 

A video from the Obama administration’s archived website shows Sullivan was on the same infamous Asia trip where Hunter Biden and his daughter accompanied then-Vice President Biden on Air Force Two. During the China portion of the trip, Hunter arranged a brief handshake in the U.S. delegation’s hotel lobby between his father and Jonathan Li, Hunter’s Chinese business partner who ran the Chinese private-equity fund Bohai Capital. Less than two weeks after Biden arrived in China, BHR Partners was registered.

HUNTER BIDEN’S BUSINESS PARTNERS, ASSISTANTS VISITED WHITE HOUSE OVER 80 TIMES WHEN BIDEN WAS VP

Jake Sullivan and HUNTER BIDEN

President Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan (Left) and Hunter Biden (Right) (Getty Images)

Sullivan also had multiple roles with Hillary Clinton, including chief foreign policy adviser during her failed 2016 presidential campaign and deputy chief of staff when she was secretary of state, where he traveled to 112 countries with her.

During the Clinton campaign, Sullivan notoriously pushed the Trump-Russia collusion narrative to reporters. He told members of the House Intelligence committee in a December 2017 interview that prior to the 2016 election he briefed reporters on his…

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VinCSS Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Enabling the Protection of Users, Devices, and Data from Password-related Attacks with Its Robust IAM Security Approach

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The simple, flexible, and secure IAM approach mitigates data breach risks and damages, enhances the user experience, optimizes operations, saves on operational costs, and strengthens security.

SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Recently, Frost & Sullivan researched the Southeast Asian (SEA) passwordless authentication industry and, based on its assessment results, recognizes VinCSS with the 2022 SEA Enabling Technology Leadership Award for passwordless authentication. The company develops passwordless authentication solutions that use the FIDO2 protocol to make them true passwordless solutions, with no primary password needed. The company offers reliable passwordless identity and access management (IAM) solutions that help customers minimize the need for passwords; reduce the friction, complexity, and risks associated with passwords and their related requirements; and increase the operational efficiency of IAM strategies.

VinCSS developed a comprehensive FIDO2 ecosystem to ensure strong or passwordless authentication using seven solutions, encompassing servers, Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud services, transformation services, and software development kits (SDKs). To cater to the rising demand for IoT security, VinCSS’s new IoT FIDO Device Onboarding (FDO) solution securely sets up and configures IoT devices automatically. FDO, developed by FIDO Alliance, is an automated onboarding protocol that addresses IoT device security concerns and leverages asymmetric public key cryptography to provide industrial IoT with a fast and secure way to onboard devices to any device management system. This capability makes devices more resistant to attacks by substituting highly secure cryptographic keys for generic password credentials.

According to Anh Tien Vu, Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Research Industry Principal, “The FIDO2 ecosystem enables businesses to address multiple use cases, including eliminating credential replay attacks with user presence checks to prevent malware hacking, providing authentication standard enforcement to ensure supply chain security and addressing authentication redundancy to fast-track and support better compliance and audit requirements.”

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Newswire & Press Release / Pradeo Acclaimed by Frost & Sullivan for Offering Leading Mobile Security to Organizations with its Pioneering AI… – Engineering / Artificial Intelligence – Frost & Sullivan

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Based on its recent analysis of the mobile security market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Pradeo with the 2021 Global Enabling Technology Leadership Award for supporting enterprise mobility with its unified, feature-rich AI services. By protecting managed and unmanaged mobile devices, its solution stack is especially valuable to organizations with bring-your-own-device (BYOD) operation models.

“A global market leader and an end-to-end service provider, Pradeo has the scale, capabilities, and technology to address a gamut of mobile security needs for organizations of all sizes,” said Vikrant Gandhi, Research Vice President for Frost & Sullivan. “Its patented AI engine is at the core of its mobile security solution and enables it to configure products quickly. Highly adaptable and applicable across business cases, Pradeo’s technology aids rapid implementation and offers long-term value across a client’s mobile security strategy.”

One of Pradeo’s leading turnkey solutions, the Secure Private Store, eliminates the possibility of third-party applications compromising individual or organizational security through the network and extending to the operating system and apps on the device. An alternative to mobile device management (MDM, EMM, UEM…) systems that are often restrictive and diminish BYOD accessibility, the Secure Private Store assists organizations and carriers with unique functions to protect their environment.

Pradeo’s solution set equips security teams with in-depth visibility into what applications do with data and controls. This solution offers flexibility to customize permissions, execute zero-touch deployments, and interoperate with major stakeholders in the mobile device management ecosystem. Pradeo recommends predefined configurations to fit small and medium businesses’ needs, so its solutions are ready-to-implement, include automation remediation, and require only light-touch administration.

“Pradeo prides itself on delivering exceptional data privacy. In addition to the app protection tools, it ensures that all of the information collected as a part of its mobile security logs is anonymized,” noted…

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