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What Is Edge Security? Overcoming Edge Computing Risks

eSecurity Planet

The fastest growing need stems from edge computing for the Internet of Things (IoT) such as fitness bands, self-driving cars, and retail point-of-sale (POS) registers. Instead, data now processes within branch offices, retail locations, factories, and a host of IoT devices.

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Point-of-Sale (POS) Security Measures for 2021

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It’s a tough time to be a retailer. Just recently, the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), owner of retailers Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks OFF 5th and Lord & Taylor, acknowledged that an undisclosed number of customers’ payment card data had been stolen, and HBC shares fell more than 6 percent in response to the news.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. Data poisoning attacks. Obviously, this. massive surge of tickets.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. Data poisoning attacks. Obviously, this. massive surge of tickets.

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Top Secure Email Gateway Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

The Clearswift solution incorporates inbound threat protection (Avira, Sophos or Kaspersky antivirus ), an optional sandbox feature, data loss prevention technology to remove threats from messages and files, a multi-layer spam defence mechanism (including SPF, DKIM, DMARC), multiple encryption options, and advanced content filtering features.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

Application Access: A retail website can make more requests than human users on any resource. Endpoint Security: Antivirus , anti-spyware , endpoint detection and response (EDR), and other controls should be deployed to secure the endpoint against compromise. API calls on related applications (shopping carts, databases, etc.)

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

> 54% of all data breaches come from ransomware attacks in manufacturing, healthcare, government, financial, retail, and technology industries. More advanced security tools can incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) to provide automated recognition and remediation for threats.