Hello Security Community Members,

For those of you in the Massachusetts region, spring has finally sprung. Yet, despite the warming days, there is a heaviness in the world. And with that is an evergrowing need to secure your digital assets and those of your customers.

As member of the MassTLC Security Community you can give help and get help as you develop and carry out your security programs, source tools, and build your teams. You can share your expertise - through contributed blog posts or sharing articles or white papers. Additionally, we will continue to offer live and on-demand programs focused on the most important aspects of your security plans.

Some things to celebrate are our amazing security community companies and the accolades they are receiving. Congratulations to Acronis, CyberArk, Mimecast, ReversingLabs, and Vectra AI for being recognized as winners at the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. Stay tuned, MassTLC will be announcing our plans for this year's Tech Top 50 soon.

As always, if you know a company or security professional to feature or topics to share for events, let me know!

Best regards,
Sara Fraim
Sr. Director
MassTLC
Stay Informed and Get Involved
  • TOMORROW! How to Change the Gender Pay Gap. Explore how employees and their organizations can work together to create change in the wage gap. Find out exactly what is going on behind the scenes and what strategies and policies need to be in place for employers to close their gaps. Learn more and register.

  • MassTLC Virtual Career Fair. Meet with great companies such as NETSCOUT, Blink, an Amazon Company, Centric Consulting, Rapid7, Retail Business Services, Triverus Consulting, Zipcar, and more. Register here.

  • Radio Entrepreneurs. Host Jeffrey Davis interviews Michael Hammond of OCD Tech on Why Business Owners Need To Take IT Security More Seriously. Listen here.

Have an event you want to share with the community? Let me know!
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Industry News and Resources
  • A Comprehensive Privacy Law May Be Heading for Massachusetts, And Businesses Should Prepare. Get ready: there’s a good chance that comprehensive data privacy legislation is coming to the Commonwealth. If your business is not already compliant with the European Union’s or UK’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), then you might have some work to do. Read more.

  • Why Cyber Liability Insurance Matters. Following several highly publicized and costly cyber events, cyber risk now ranks as one of the top enterprise-wide risks facing organizations today. Technological developments have revolutionized the way in which companies offer their products and services, allowing them to reach new customers with increased operational efficiencies, but these changes do not come without risk. Read more.

  • URL Confusion Vulnerabilities in the Wild: Exploring Parser Inconsistencies. Given the ubiquity of URLs for decades, one would think that the URL parsers we use today would have reached a consensus regarding how to parse similar (or even identical) URLs. Although ideal, that is far from the truth. This lack of consensus has helped a class of vulnerability called URL confusion that we are going to explore in this post. Read more. 
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Deb Briggs
Chief Security Officer
NetScout Systems
Ben Fischer
Principal Product Marketing Mgr, Security
Red Hat
Leslie Nielsen
CISO
Nuance Communications
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CEO & Co-Founder
GreatHorn
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