Nathan Wenzler Moss ams Cybersec Director: Everyone should use Vpn ByGabriela Vatu-March 25, 2019.298 Every time you go online there are many security threats to be addressed. Although regular users contribute to keeping themselves online secure, they are cybersec specialists who bear the heaviest burden. Nathan Wenzler is Moss’s Senior Director of Cybersecurity, a company that works with other companies that help them out in many fields like cybersec. Wenzler has long been working in the industry. He was a Chief Security Strategist at AsTech who merged with Moss ams in 2018 and an Executive Security Manager for Thycotic before that, before he took on a new job at Moss ams. He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council even nowadays. Because of his impressive resume, we decided to see how he can help us better understand the security world of how secure IoT devices are what we can do to stay safe and how white hat hackers nowadays keep us safe. That being said, here’s an interview with Nathan Wenzler Senior Cybersecurity Director at Moss ams by TechNadu. TechNadu: What do you see as the biggest threats to security today? Is it social engineering malware or, maybe, data breaches? TechNadu: IoT security has been a joke for many years now and many security pros have called for better standards or regulations to be established to compel these businesses to comply. What are you thinking? Do we need regulation or do we have to let the industry work itself out? Nathan Wenzler: We need both, in the end. Companies are still designing IoT devices that don’t see the need to invest the extra time and money to create protection in their goods. So they’ll likely need some form of regulation to get them to do it. That said the regulations we see coming down the road are restricted and will have no impact for a few of years. Fortunately, we see more customers demanding that firms have stronger native security in IoT apps, and that has resulted in many firms doing just that. The more consumers want protection the more these companies are going to do it and the industry is going to move in that direction. But it will take both sides to really get to a point where safety is truly baked in every IoT device that is made. TechNadu: Whose IoT apps do you have in your home? Are there any that you would never let in? Nathan Wenzler: I don’t have any IoT devices myself and I’m not a big fan of the voice-activated assistants especially in the wake of several recorded bugs and problems where it has been shown that these devices actually listen to conversations. But now we’re at a stage where almost everything has that power whether it’s your smart TV or smartphone. It’s all gathering data about you. So I’m not entirely against getting IoT devices around it is just a matter of determining how much more data I want to give up on these companies about myself. It is the same tradeoff that we’ve been grappling with since the advent of “free” internet services. TechNadu: Part of your job is to search through systems belonging to companies associated with Moss ams. What are some of the biggest mistakes that you find along the way and how did they affect the customers of those companies? TechNadu: How many tests are positive on your penetration? How weak are the security systems specific to It? Nathan Wenzler: In some respects, most of every pentest is a success. A lot of it has to do with how much time an effort is made to break in. Because of enough patience and testing methods and software trial and error, one can usually find some kind of way to get into a network or program. For that reason, defense-in-depth development approaches have been suggested for decades now. You have to be able to buy yourself time to respond to threats while also having multiple defensive tactics which ideally will avoid what another layer of defense could not do. Fortunately, in this overall situation we are getting better, particularly as more companies take security seriously and make real changes to how their applications are coded and how networks and systems are built. But we still have a long way to go and a lot of companies still need a ton of help getting even the simple flaws in their environments taken care of. TechNadu: In the past couple of years we’ve seen a increase over white hats partly due to bug bounty programs. How are you looking at this trend? What do you think motivates these people to commit to ethical hacking? Nathan Wenzler: From the beginning, genuinely ethical hackers have been around and they do it either out of a sense of curiosity or they come from a place where they want to do the right thing. It’s often both. Bug bounty services have provided these conscientious hackers with a way of engaging openly with the organization to share what they find to be much more beneficial to many of those people than the financial reward itself. It wasn’t unusual in the past to have someone discover a flaw somewhere and then be unable to locate someone within the organization acknowledging the finding or listening or taking them seriously. Bug bounty systems prove that a company actually listens, making it much easier for researchers to share what they find. TechNadu: Lots of people support the use of Vpns as a way to stay safe online. What do you mean by that? Do you use a Vpn? What are people supposed to look for in such an instrument? Amd Unveils Zen 2 (codenamed ‘ Rome ‘) Cpu-First 7-Nanometer chip from the business!ByNitish Singh-November 7, 2018.299 Amd is launching its all-new Zen 2 processor codenamed ‘ Rome ‘ with many technological innovations. Zen 2 will be made with the new 7-nm fabrication process, among other items. Just two years ago Amd shook the Pc market with their new Ryzen chipset line. Before that the company used to exist under the shadow of Intel and now it seems they can overtake their rival. Information about their next-gen Zen 2 architecture poised to carry a number of tech developments were unveiled at an event held in San Francisco Amd. Building on the leading 7-nanometer architecture, the new line of processors codenamed ‘ Rome. ‘ Tsmc will manage the fabrication process. The firm is adamant this will give them a significant advantage over Intel and the latest generation of Xeon processors from this group. Rome Cpus will have up to 64 cores, using a modern modular ‘ chiplet ‘ architecture, according to senior company executives and chief engineers. The new chipset will consist solely of Cpu cores connected to a 14 nm I / O on-packet die using the Infinity Fabric Interconnect. This design would help achieve consistent latency of access to the memory according to Amd. .300.300 Figure 1 Photo Courtesy of Idg / Mark Hachman Other notable features of Rome Cpus would be support for 128 Pcie 4.0 interface Ddr4 memory channels as well as socket compatibility with existing Naples motherboards. Now the case just did not subside with the Zen 2 processors being unveiled. Amd also shared their plans on the Zen 3 which will follow a fabrication process of 7nm+. However we also got insight that the Zen 4 is in the design phase at the moment. Grip.