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Vulnerability Management vs. Risk Management: Defining the Fundamentals

NopSec

To manage what feels like chaos requires breaking down the dangers in categories and managing accordingly. There are two fundamental categories that anyone involved in information security should understand: vulnerabilities and risks. We’ll look at that in detail in our next blog. What are Vulnerabilities?

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Why BYOD Is the Favored Ransomware Backdoor

eSecurity Planet

Greg Fitzerald, co-founder of Sevco Security , disclosed to eSecurity Planet that their recent State of the Cybersecurity Attack Surface research found “11% of all IT assets are missing endpoint protection.” Some of this 11% includes the common and recurring problem of overlooked legacy endpoints such as laptops, desktops, and mobile devices.

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Experts Agree This is the Best Way to Protect Your IT Devices

Approachable Cyber Threats

Category Cybersecurity Fundamentals Risk Level. In another ACT post we talked about a process in cybersecurity that we call “vulnerability management.” You might be watching the local nightly news, or reading the Hive Systems blog , and see something that may impact you!

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Last Watchdog’s IoT and ‘zero trust’ coverage win MVP awards from Information Management Today

The Last Watchdog

My primer on the going forward privacy and security implications of IoT — What Everyone Should Know About the Promise and Pitfalls of the Internet of Things — won second place in the contest’s IoT Security category.

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6 of the Spookiest Vulnerabilities from 2023

NetSpi Executives

October might be the spookiest time of the year, but for cybersecurity practitioners in the trenches, vulnerabilities can cause quite a scare year-round. Here are the six spookiest vulnerabilities of 2023 and their tips for remeidation. Ryan Krause, Principal Consultant, External Network Pentesting 6.

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What Does my Router Actually Do?

Approachable Cyber Threats

Category Cybersecurity Fundamentals Risk Level. These represent the frequencies in GHz of the radio waves carrying the Internet from your router, and they will both provide you access to your favorite blogs (ours of course!). I’m guessing there’s a cybersecurity angle here, right?” Some routers have two SSIDs (i.e.

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Exploring the Cost of a Data Breach and Its Implications

Centraleyes

Breaking Down the Cost of a Data Breach Data breach costs can be dissected into distinct categories. With an annual investment of $1 million in cybersecurity measures, the ROI stands at a formidable 300%. For every dollar invested in cybersecurity, the company saves three dollars in costs associated with a data breach.