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Best Practices Q&A: The importance of articulating how cybersecurity can be a business enabler

The Last Watchdog

These key capabilities fall under the four competencies of oversight, process risk management, technology risk management, and human risk management. We operate in a world today where your business is the risk and how you adapt is the opportunity. There is also a benefit of stronger business partnerships.

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Using social media as a tool to share knowledge on day-to-day Cybersecurity risks

CyberSecurity Insiders

When most people think about social media and cybersecurity, they typically think about hackers taking over Instagram accounts or Facebook Messenger scammers taking private information. The Identity Theft Resource Center’s 2022 Consumer Impact Report revealed that social media account takeovers have grown by 1,000% in one year.

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GUEST ESSAY: The case for network defenders to focus on leading — not lagging — indicators

The Last Watchdog

When it comes to sales targets there is a correlation between increased sales to shareholder value creation, but closing sales in B2B transactions can be time consuming. Minimum adherence to security requirements policy, based on an application’s inherent risk profile, can lead to reduction in risk vulnerabilities.

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Insider Threat: Employees indicted for stealing $88 million of license keys

Malwarebytes

Avaya is a business-to-business (B2B) communications company catering to small- and medium-sized businesses. Pearce also hijacked accounts of former Avaya employees to generate more license keys and draw suspicion away from him. Dani Pearce allegedly took the accountant and financial manager role in their illegal business operation.

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The Four Keys to Achieving an Optimal Application Experience

CyberSecurity Insiders

The fact is that every second of lag time on an online banking app risks alienating the consumer. Every glitch on an e-commerce app risks sending the consumer to a competitor. The markets are simply too competitive to risk inconveniencing the consumer in any way. This oversight has been to their detriment.

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Access Control: The 5 Single Sign-On Benefits

IT Security Guru

Working from home resulted in additional risk management and security challenges for employees, executive leadership, and information technology (IT) teams. In other words, users sign in to one account, one single time, and automatically gain access to multiple applications. provisioning and de-provisioning a single account).

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The Evolution of API: From Commerce to Cloud

Security Affairs

And while this development has been crucial to getting us to where we are today, there are some risks that come with the API economy. On the one hand security teams tend to have a limited understanding of which APIs expose personally identifiable information, which puts customer and employer data at risk.

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