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4 Critical Capabilities Your Cyber Risk Management Tools Should Have

Centraleyes

A single data breach can compromise your ability to operate, generate revenue, and ruin the reputation you’ve spent years building with your clients, business partners, and vendors. There’s no avoiding digital risk. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of ways to minimize these risks.

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Black-box vs. Grey-box vs. White-box: Which Penetration Test Is Right for You?

Zigrin Security

You need to know if your company’s security controls and defenses can withstand a real cyber attack. Penetration testing is how you find out, but with three main types, black-box, grey-box, and white-box, how do you choose? Sleep better at night knowing your data and applications have been battle-tested.

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9 Ways to Prevent Third-Party Data Breaches

CyberSecurity Insiders

The increasing number of third-party data breaches and the sensitive information they expose have negatively impacted consumer trust. Third-party breaches occur when sensitive data is stolen from a third-party vendor or when their systems are used to access and steal sensitive information stored on your systems. .

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How Smart Organizations Mitigate Cyber Risks in a World of Unknown Unknowns

CyberSecurity Insiders

After Marriott Hotels bought Starwood Hotels a few years ago, Marriott’s IT department was unaware that Starwood’s servers had already been penetrated by attackers, who were lying in wait. It’s easy, relatively speaking, to prepare defenses against risks that are well understood. Yet manual testing has drawbacks.

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Improving your bottom line with cybersecurity top of mind

CyberSecurity Insiders

As senior leaders revisit their growth strategies, it’s an excellent time to assess where they are on the cyber-risk spectrum and how significant the complexity costs have become. Taking necessary precautions against cybercrime can help prevent massive losses and protect your business’s future.

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Scanning for Flaws, Scoring for Security

Krebs on Security

For years, potential creditors have judged the relative risk of extending credit to consumers based in part on the applicant’s credit score — the most widely used being the score developed by FICO , previously known as Fair Isaac Corporation. Data accidentally released by FICO about the Cyber Risk Score for ExxonMobil.

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Have board directors any liability for a cyberattack against their company?

Security Affairs

The size of the cyber risk to companies cannot be underestimated. To indicate the size of the cyber risk to companies, there is, on average, a cyber-attack every 39 seconds, which does not mean that every attack is successful, but that there is an attempt to access companies’ computer systems with that frequency.