Cyber Security Panel, Symantec - Current Affairs Questions and Answers

1)   IT major Symantec released an automated solution to counter which cloud bug?

a. Cloudburst
b. Cloudbleed
c. Cloudbust
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Cloudbleed

Explanation:
Symantec on March 6, 2017 released an automated solution to identify and resolve potential exposure to 'Cloudbleed' - a bug that compromised millions of user accounts in cloud applications.

The company has released the solution to current Symantec 'ProxySG' customers.

The solution leverages integrations between its 'CloudSOC Cloud Access Security Broker' (CASB) and the broader Symantec security portfolio.

Discovered on February 17, 'Cloudbleed' is a security bug that leaked data from the content delivery network Cloudflare.

Following the incident, Symantec analysts mapped the vulnerable 'CloudBleed' web URLs to specific cloud applications and 'CloudSOC Audit' identified more than 2,000 applications that were potentially affected by CloudBleed.

As a result, 'CloudSOC Audit' now tracks the CloudBleed vulnerability as an at-risk attribute for cloud applications.

'CloudSOC Audit' tracks intelligence on over 20,000 cloud applications based on 90-plus different risk attributes, now including the 'CloudBleed' vulnerability.

CloudBleed: Know More

  • Cloudflare, which is used by more than 5.5 million websites leaked mass amounts of sensitive user information from those sites.
  • This is including passwords, private messages, hotel bookings, and more between September 2016 and February 18th of this year.
  • The leak has been called ‘Cloudbleed’.
  • Security researcher, Tavis Ormandy, discovered the vulnerability, which is the result of a software bug in their code.
  • This is technically known as a buffer overrun.


2)   Which Indian origin CEO has been appointed on the Commission on Enhancing National Cyber Security Panel?

a. Ratan Tata
b. Sunil Bharati Mittal
c. Ajay Banga
d. Adi Godrej
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ajay Banga

Explanation:
The White House released a list of names that US President Barack Obama has appointed to the new Commission on Enhancing National Cyber security panel. The panel was formed earlier this year as part of Obama’s $19bn (£13bn) proposal to boost the US government’s cyber security system.

  • Panel includes top members of the tech, intelligence and academic communities. Among others appointed is
  • CEO and president of MasterCard Ajay Banga;
  • Microsoft Research’s Peter Lee,
  • Uber chief security officer Joe Sullivan,
  • former NSA director General Keith Alexander and
  • Stanford cyberpolicy and security researcher Herbert Lin.
Here is the complete list of appointees:
  • General Keith Alexander, USA (Retd)
  • Annie I. Antón
  • Ajay Banga
  • Steven Chabinsky
  • Patrick Gallagher
  • Peter Lee
  • Herbert Lin
  • Heather Murren
  • Joe Sullivan