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Best Practices Q&A: The importance of articulating how cybersecurity can be a business enabler

The Last Watchdog

The technology and best practices for treating cybersecurity as a business enabler, instead of an onerous cost-center, have long been readily available. These key capabilities fall under the four competencies of oversight, process risk management, technology risk management, and human risk management. What are some basic first steps?

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Q&A: Here’s why VPNs are likely to remain a valuable DIY security tool for consumers, SMBs

The Last Watchdog

It is astounding that billions of online accounts have been breached over the past 18 years and that US consumer accounts are by far the most compromised. Much of the hard evidence came from correlating breached databases sitting in the open Internet. accounts have been breached so far. Related: VPNs vs ZTNA. billion U.S.

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Help Your Security Team Sleep Better at Night by Reducing False Positives

CyberSecurity Insiders

Specifically, if your applications sit behind legacy web application firewall (WAF) technologies, the demands on your security team can quickly become unmanageable. You are likely using Web APIs to support both B2B communication and the mobile applications that users increasingly rely on in lieu of a traditional web browser.

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The Evolution of API: From Commerce to Cloud

Security Affairs

APIs then played an important role in the birth of the Internet, offering a way for applications to exchange data across the Internet via a specific set of protocols. These early iterations of APIs were instrumental in defining standards for how data could and would be shared as the world became more technologically enabled.

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NEW TECH: Cequence Security launches platform to shield apps, APIs from malicious botnets

The Last Watchdog

The nonstop intensity of these attacks is vividly illustrated by the fact that malicious bot communications now account for one-third of total Internet traffic. This activity can be seen at any moment of any day by examining the volume of malicious botnet traffic moving across the Internet. Shifting security challenge.

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Don’t Drown your Security Team in Low-Value WAF Alerts

CyberSecurity Insiders

Well established web technologies, including RESTful APIs, and a growing selection of open source and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software enable your users to access critical business capabilities using any device that can connect to the Internet, including personal mobile devices.

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Access Control: The 5 Single Sign-On Benefits

IT Security Guru

Working from home resulted in additional risk management and security challenges for employees, executive leadership, and information technology (IT) teams. In other words, users sign in to one account, one single time, and automatically gain access to multiple applications. provisioning and de-provisioning a single account).