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Today’s CISO Insights – How to Tackle the Quantum Threat

CyberSecurity Insiders

Due to this specific way of processing, quantum computers can also break many of the current encryption algorithms used to protect data. This is why CISOs everywhere should be concerned. Most likely his data is protected using current encryption algorithms and keys. It is safe, encrypted, and should take forever to decrypt.”

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Top 5 Cyber Predictions for 2024: A CISO Perspective

Security Boulevard

Ransomware gangs also got stealthier in 2023, with ThreatLabz observing an increase in encryption-less extortion attacks. The absence of encryption allows attackers to eliminate development cycles and decryption support and quietly exfiltrate data before making ransom demands.

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Five Tips for Ensuring Communications Security in Your Organization

CyberSecurity Insiders

Firewalls should be implemented between any wireless networks and the organization’s internal network. Firewall configurations should be implemented to restrict connections between untrusted networks and any systems in the protected information environment to only what is necessary. Set cryptography controls and encryption.

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GUEST ESSAY: Leveraging best practices and an open standard to protect corporate data

The Last Watchdog

Until now, organizations have relied on firewalls, intrusion detection and similar techniques to protect their data. It underlies organizational accountability and is necessary to identify threats and uncover deficiencies. You almost certainly need a chief information security officer (CISO). Outmoded cyber solutions.

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IoT Devices a Huge Risk to Enterprises

eSecurity Planet

The increasingly distributed nature of IT – with data and applications living in and being accessed through the cloud, outside of traditional data centers protected by firewalls and antivirus software – is helping to fuel the zero-trust push, which states that identity is key. ” Most Devices Communicate in Plaintext.

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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security

eSecurity Planet

By exploiting weak server vulnerabilities, the Iran-based hackers were able to gain access, move laterally, encrypt IT systems, and demand ransom payment. On a Sunday in February 2018, the Colorado CISO’s office set up a temporary server to test a new cloud-based business process. Defending Against RDP Attacks: Best Practices.

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ThreatWise TV: Exploring Recent Incident Response Trends

Cisco Security

Pre-ransomware is when we have observed a ransomware attack is about to happen, but the encryption of files has not yet taken place. . In one engagement this quarter, passwords were reset through a management console of a perimeter firewall that a disgruntled employee had access to. . Connecting with Wolfgang Goerlich .