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Grandson of FISMA: Why We Desperately Need New Cybsersecurity Legislation from the 117th Congress

Cisco Security

On August 3, 2021, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) released a report entitled “Federal Cybersecurity: America’s Data Still at Risk.”. The Risk Management Framework doesn’t take into account that the human is the new perimeter of the enterprise. See: [link] ). The modern CISO is more than “IT security.”

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Implementing Password Security

SiteLock

For example, the phrase could be something like “I graduated from Notre Dame University on June 1st 2002.”. And if you have trouble remembering the phrase, you can still write it down and keep it somewhere in your home, because there’s very little risk a hacker would find it in your home and recognize the phrase as a password.

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How customers can improve product security (just ask)

SC Magazine

When the general public thinks of cybersecurity, they often focus on firewalls, encryption and ransomware. In 2002, Bill Gates announced Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing (TwC) initiative after hearing concerns from major customers such as government agencies and financial corporations about the inherent threats lurking in software.

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Security services and tools include anti-DDoS , SOCaaS , web application firewalls (WAF), data encryption , and more. Also Read: Top Web Application Firewall (WAF) Vendors. Under security enhancements this could be adding cloud asset inventory, data loss prevention (DLP), firewalls , or VPC service controls.

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What does WiFi stand for?

Malwarebytes

In 2002, WECA was rebranded to WiFi Alliance, which features hundreds of renowned member companies today. In public, using shared WiFi carries risks (more on that below). Use a modern router if you can because an old router can be a security risk. How to reduce public WiFi security risks. What is a WiFi hotspot?

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Our products enable them to minimize the risk of data breaches and ensure regulatory compliance by proactively reducing the exposure of sensitive data and promptly detecting policy violations and suspicious user behavior. Gartner gave it top place in unified threat management (UTM), and it was named a Leader in next-gen firewalls (NGFW).

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Threat Modeling

ForAllSecure

Consider your homes, you know there's the risk from flooding fire, etc, etc. And knowing that risk, you can then secure yourself against them, mitigate them in various ways and so forth. And with those pictures, get an idea and we can say you know this is in its own VPC, we're isolating it, we've got a firewall in front of it.