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Why backups are not the panacea for recovery from a ransomware attack

SC Magazine

Backups can be damaged, untested, prohibitively difficult to deploy, encrypted by attackers, or restore to the same breached state they backed up. ” Restoring encrypted files might seem like the most important thing to do when faced with a ransomware attack. Indeed, recovering from ransomware can be tough.

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RSA 2022 Musings: The Past and The Future of Security

Anton on Security

There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.” An anti-DDoS vendor promised “better zero trust visibility.” RSA 2017: What’s The Theme? There are people buying their first SIEM in 2022.

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Identifying Common Types of Cyberattacks

SiteLock

You’ve likely read about high-profile cyberattacks in the headlines after a major data breach, such as the Equifax breach in 2017. Defacements made up 16% of incidents in Q4 2017 alone. In fact, a report from June 2017 shows 22% of small businesses experienced a ransomware attack in the past year. DDoS Attacks.

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Combatting ransomware: a holistic approach

IT Security Guru

Our own research report, the State of Encrypted Attacks Report 2020 , found that there had been a 500 per cent rise in ransomware compared to 2019. It’s clear then that ransomware didn’t reach its zenith with WannaCry back in 2017 but remains a disruptive and profitable threat to business operations. Consider Zero Trust.

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RSA 2022 Musings: The Past and The Future of Security

Security Boulevard

There are people moving to “next-gen” firewalls (a great innovation of 2005) in 2022. A firewall management vendor claimed to “simplify zero trust.” An anti-DDoS vendor promised “better zero trust visibility.” RSA 2017: What’s The Theme? There are people buying their first SIEM in 2022. Related posts: RSA 2020 Reflection.

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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. For example, encryption keys, administrator passwords, and other critical information are stored in the Azure Key Vault in FIPS 140-2 Level 2-validated hardware security modules (HSMs).

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Your Small Business Cybersecurity Guide to the Most Common Cyberthreats

SiteLock

Cybercriminals conducting DDoS attacks deploy a network of hacked machines called a “botnet” to flood servers with traffic they can’t handle. Even when a DDoS attack doesn’t take a site completely offline, it usually slows it enough to make it unusable. Implement a web application firewall. Distributed denial of service.