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How to Prevent Data Breaches: Data Breach Prevention Tips

eSecurity Planet

With the ever-present threat of data breaches, organizations need to adopt best practices to help prevent breaches and to respond to them when they occur to limit any damage. Organizations like SANS offer free incident response checklists for businesses to begin tracking their incident procedures.

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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Tutorial: Step-By-Step Process

eSecurity Planet

Feel free to test them, even if it’s just to see what the OS looks like. Feel free to test them, even if it’s just to see what the OS looks like. Kali Linux turns 10 this year, and to celebrate, the Linux penetration testing distribution has added defensive security tools to its arsenal of open-source security tools.

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9 Myths Busted About Having a Career in Cybersecurity [Women Don’t Read]

Jane Frankland

Last year, the world’s largest non-profit membership association of certified cybersecurity professionals, (ISC)², announced the findings of its Cybersecurity Workforce Study. The latest figures depict a shortage of cybersecurity professionals at a time when protecting the world’s operating systems has never been as important.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Perimeter Defense Perimeter defense blocks threats at the network’s edge. Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization.

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2022

eSecurity Planet

As the demand for robust security defense grows by the day, the market for cybersecurity technology has exploded, as well as the number of available solutions. Here are our picks for the top 20 cybersecurity software vendors plus 10 honorable mentions – with the caveat that at least a couple of those 30 companies are likely to merge.

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7 Trends I Spotted When Reviewing 2020 and the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

Jane Frankland

When it comes to the skills gap and women in cybersecurity, I’m regularly approached by journalists who ask me what the root problem is, what more we can do, who’s doing a good job, and whether this year’s pandemic has actually made things better or worse. Here’s my answer. #1. Business owners want to understand how to protect their assets.

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MY TAKE: SMBs can do much more to repel ransomware, dilute disinformation campaigns

The Last Watchdog

Related: Free tools that can help protect elections I had a deep discussion about this with Todd Weller, chief strategy officer at Bandura Cyber. Bandura Cyber is a 6-year-old supplier of threat intelligence gateway technologies. Ransomware attacks against local government entities at some point will run its course.