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Mapping Penetration Testing report and vulnerability management CVEs

NopSec

Penetration tests are point-in-time adversarial tests aimed at testing the intrusion prevention, detection, and incident response capabilities and controls of an organization. Once the pen testing report is delivered, the vulnerabilities are remediated with various degree of urgency. Thanks @mubix.

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NetSPI Lands $410 Million in Funding – And Other Notable Cybersecurity Deals

eSecurity Planet

NetSPI, a top penetration testing and vulnerability management company, recently announced a $410 million funding round, a huge amount in a year in which $100+ million rounds have become a rarity. Before co-founding Cyolo, Almog Apirion was a CISO for 15 years. “I As for NetSPI, it fits into this sweet spot. Arctic Wolf.

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Six Steps to Protect Your Organization from Ransomware | #RansomwareWeek

CyberSecurity Insiders

Conduct risk assessments and penetration tests to determine the organization’s attack surface and what tools, processes and skills are in place to defend against attacks. If an attack occurs, Gartner notes, the press is likely to contact company directors, not the CISO. Initial Assessments. Ransomware Governance. User Training.

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Protecting your Customers and Brand in 2022: Are you doing enough?

Jane Frankland

Nowadays, organisations need digital leaders such as CIOs, CISOs, and CTOs who are strategists, visionaries, and know how to manage, effectively. Pre pandemic, Nominet released a study, Life Inside the Perimeter: Understanding the Modern CISO and reported on cybersecurity’s leaders. billion) is expected online.

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ROUNDTABLE: Why T-Mobile’s latest huge data breach could fuel attacks directed at mobile devices

The Last Watchdog

This is the type of incident that could have been identified as a risk by a properly scoped penetration test and detected with the use of internal network monitoring tools. Compromising that could make other unrelated accounts vulnerable. as well as insurance and merchant accounts, to commit insurance fraud and wire fraud.

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ThreatWise TV: Exploring Recent Incident Response Trends

Cisco Security

Mimikatz is not malware per-se and can be useful for penetration testing and red team activities. The organization’s team changed all associated passwords but overlooked one administrative account. Perhaps the most notorious is Mimikatz—a tool used to pull credentials from operating systems. Connecting with Wolfgang Goerlich .

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Breach of healthcare debt collection firm exposes 1.9M patients – cyber experts weigh in

CyberSecurity Insiders

According to a notice from PFC, attackers stole confidential patient information including patient names, addresses, and outstanding account balances. The Professional Finance Company, PFC, suffered a ransomware attack on February 26 and on July 1 confirmed that over 650 healthcare providers were affected by the breach.