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Portnox Cloud: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

Since then Portnox continued to add capabilities, launched the first cloud-native NAC in 2017, and now offers a NAC SaaS solution, Portnox Cloud. However, local RADIUS instances can be established to maintain protection even when internet connections are broken. Delivery Portnox Cloud is available as a SaaS product.

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Breaking Down 5 Different Types of Malware Every Small Business Should Know

SiteLock

In 2017, close to a quarter of infected website files were backdoor files, and today, these attacks are becoming harder to detect. Malicious redirects are common on the internet and behave as their name suggests. However, a backup is only effective if it’s a clean backup of your website — a malware-infected backup will be ineffective.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. Offline Backups. While virtual backups are great, if you’re not storing data backups offline, you’re at risk of losing that data. Screenshot example. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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School district IT leaders grade their handling of past malware attacks

SC Magazine

Kacey Sensenich, chief technology officer at Rockingham County Schools (25 schools, 11,691 students in the 2019-2020 school year), ran up against an Emotet trojan infection in December 2017. 11 of 2017, Sensenich began observing signs of abnormal network behavior. 19 the network was taken offline for a full-fledged remediation.

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Zero Day Threats: Preparation is the Best Prevention

eSecurity Planet

A good example is the infamous WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017 that hit corporate networks running Microsoft Windows throughout the world as part of a larger global cyberattack. Other useful strategies for discovering these attacks include scanning the internet for malware, monitoring the dark web, and monitoring security forums.

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Why Do I Need Website Security?

SiteLock

SiteLock was founded in 2008 with one mission: to protect every website on the internet. A web application firewall (WAF). Additionally, you might have to rebuild some or all of your website from scratch if you don’t have a clean, recent backup to restore your site. Q: If I get hacked, can’t I just upload the backup of my site?

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD]. Today, c yber security incidents lead to significant damage, alarming organizations of all types and sizes in different geographic locations.