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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. Meanwhile, the best security tooling money can was never designed to deal with this phenomenon.

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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.

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Berkshire Bank Banks on Salt for API Protection

Security Boulevard

We have to keep our data secure and our regulators happy, and we can’t get in the way of digital transformation – Salt fits right into that,” said Melle. Only cloud-scale big data, with sophisticated ML and AI doing real-time analysis yields the context needed to identify API attacks, which often unfold over days, weeks, and even months.

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MY TAKE: Six-figure GDPR privacy fines reinforce business case for advanced SIEM, UEBA tools

The Last Watchdog

I think it’s super important that organizations are being held accountable for looking after our data. That’s kind of the carrot side — being able to demonstrate that you actually do care about the data of the people you do business with. Trust is an important part of their brand; it should be all about trust.

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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

Many veteran security leaders don’t know where to begin accounting for thousands of cloud resources continuously making millions of intermittent connections. And the solution seems obvious: Big Data. Connection monitoring. This ascension of agile software has pushed security teams far out of their comfort zones.

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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. LW: How big is this challenge? Hudson: There’s an awful lot of work to be done inside company firewalls, inside internal data centers.