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Many organizations are migrating to cloud providers for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) functions. By moving key applications and infrastructure in the cloud, enterprises are lowering operating costs and easing the administrative burden on IT organizations.

If you are making decisions on how to spend the last of your FY 2016 IT budget, there are low-cost, high-impact products and services available that can improve your security status and make your life easier in the coming year.

As a Reverse Engineer at Tenable, I investigate disclosed vulnerabilities in order to write remote plugins for the Nessus® vulnerability scanner. Each investigation is unique and presents its own set of challenges. In some cases, new vulnerabilities are uncovered. One such investigation happened earlier this year when I was analyzing CVE-2016-3737 in Red Hat JBoss Operations Network (JON).

Season 2, Episode 8 of Mr. Robot opens up with a mischievous social engineering hack by Trenton launching an exploit on Mobley’s Android device. Trenton uses the Stagefright Android exploit, by tricking Mobley into thinking the site is a benchmark test for his Android. The touchless user interaction Stagefright Android exploit is a real threat to organizations, and should not be taken lightly. Mobile device vulnerabilities are a growing threat to organizations today; Tenable provides several solutions to monitor and analyze these threats.

Tenable’s 2016 Internship Program hosted 26 interns in 8 departments for 9 weeks. Interns gained hands-on professional experience, networking opportunities, and valuable mentoring relationships. Tenable also treated our interns to several lunch-and-learns, a bowling outing, a Star Trek movie night, and an Oriole’s game.