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GUEST ESSAY: What everyone can — and should — do to mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month

The Last Watchdog

Implementing cybersecurity best practices and ensuring your data is protected from online criminals should be a top priority for any business, regardless of the industry you serve. Here are some basic tips that will help your business do just that: •Install Firewalls and Virus Protection. Always use multifactor authentication.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

The Last Watchdog

The threat intelligence platforms and detection and response systems installed far and wide, in SMBs and large enterprises alike, simply are not doing a terrific job at accounting for how APIs are facilitating multi-staged network breaches. A startling 95% of API attacks happen on authenticated endpoints. Dearth of planning.

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MY TAKE: For better or worse, machine-to-machine code connections now form much of the castle wall

The Last Watchdog

And in doing so, they’re embracing agile software deployments, which requires authentication and access privileges to be dispensed, on the fly, for each human-to-machine and machine-to-machine coding connection. And the solution seems obvious: Big Data. This frenetic activity brings us cool new digital services, alright.

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How to Protect APIs

Security Boulevard

APIs make it possible for you to check your banking account balances, order food delivery, or schedule transportation from any location and at any time. Traditional front line, proxy-based security solutions, like a WAF, work well at stopping these types of attacks; WAFs look for known patterns and act as a firewall, blocking the known bad.

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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. Between security and identity management tools for data, clients have twenty-four potential solutions to choose from. Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Q&A: Here’s why it has become vital for companies to deter ‘machine-identity thieves’

The Last Watchdog

As such, Hudson argues persuasively that the root of the matter comes down to the need for organizations to keep a much closer account of access logons and encryption keys. And if a machine is logged onto a network twice, you can’t trust either one, because you can’t tell which one is authentic. Hudson: Yes, exactly.

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Security Considerations for Data Lakes

eSecurity Planet

Essentially, we are securing an app at scale with enormous requirements for stored data, incoming data, data interactions, and network connections. Given the importance of “Big Data” analytics and applications to a company’s financial performance, securing data lakes is a critical priority for security teams.