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Cyber threat intelligence programs: Still crazy after all these years

CSO Magazine

When I asked CISOs about their cyber threat intelligence (CTI) programs about five years ago, I got two distinct responses. Large, well-resourced enterprises were investing their threat intelligence programs with the goal of better operationalizing it for tactical, operational, and strategic purposes.

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Next-Generation Firewalls: A comprehensive guide for network security modernization

CyberSecurity Insiders

AT&T does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. The terms computer security, information security and cybersecurity were practically non-existent in the 1980s, but believe it or not, firewalls have existed in some form since that time.

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What is Cyber Threat Hunting? Definition, Techniques & Steps

eSecurity Planet

Threat hunting starts with a pretty paranoid premise: That your network may have already been breached and threat actors may be inside waiting for an opportunity to strike. This data is based on common attributes where cyber threat hunters can efficiently identify suspicious activity, making the threat hunting process more manageable.

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Achieving PCI DSS Compliant Firewalls within a Small Business

Security Boulevard

The most important and integral part of any data security begins with having firewalls installed in the environment. Not just that, installing firewalls is an essential requirement of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS ). What is a PCI DSS Compliant Firewall? Protect cardholder data with a firewall.

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What do Cyber Threat Actors do with your information?

Zigrin Security

In this article, we will explore the motivations of the hackers, which threat actors target which data, how to protect yourself or your organization against these threat actors, and most importantly what these threat actors do with your data. The main point is money is a big motivation to steal data.

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BrandPost: Simply Protecting Yourself is No Longer Enough

CSO Magazine

Firewalls, anti-virus, endpoint protection, and security awareness all form a foundation of protection against cyber threats. Today, organizations need tools that allow them to ask detailed questions to identify advanced (and even invisible) threats and active adversaries, and quickly take appropriate action to stop them.

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BrandPost: 5 Attack Elements Organizations Should Monitor: Anatomy of an External Attack Surface

CSO Magazine

For organizations, this means shifting their perception of comprehensive security in the face of ongoing global cyber threats. Security teams now have to defend their organization’s presence across the Internet in the same way they defend operations behind their firewalls. To read this article in full, please click here