ServiceNow has added new features to its Major Security Incident Management (MSIM) Workspace platform, which it launched in December 2021. The features allow security teams greater customization of the incident response service and come as ServiceNow announced its latest Now Platform San Diego release.
MSIM Workspace a mechanism to track and resolve security incidents
ServiceNow launched MSIM Workspace last year to help security teams collaboratively respond to critical security incidents. The platform allows users to share and view files/folders on security issues, view and update incident tasks, and communicate through dedicated chat channels. It is designed to work alongside other ServiceNow security incident and vulnerability response product capabilities and offers features including:
The US and the European Union (EU) have a preliminary agreement over the storing of European data on US soil. It was announced by President Biden and EU President Ursula von der Leyen, speaking on Friday March 25. If successful, the data agreement would resolve a significant point of contention in US-EU relations since a previous deal regulating trans-Atlantic data flows—Privacy Shield—was deemed illegal by the EU’s top court in 2020. It ruled that the US did not provide EU citizens effective means to challenge US government surveillance of their data.
Framework underscores “shared commitment to privacy”
While neither President Biden nor President von der Leyen provided details on how the new agreement would work and withstand legal challenges, the US President said that the “framework underscores our shared commitment to privacy, to data protection and to the rule of law” and would allow EU authorities “to once again authorize trans-Atlantic data flows that help facilitate $7.1 trillion in economic relations with the EU.”
Gus Simmons is an early pioneer in cryptography and computer security. I know him best for his work on authentication and covert channels, specifically as related to nuclear treaty verification. His work is cited extensively in Applied Cryptography.
He has written a memoir of growing up dirt-poor in 1930s rural West Virginia. I’m in the middle of reading it, and it’s fascinating.
