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3 security lessons from an MSP that survived the Kaseya VSA attack

Malwarebytes

Jay Tipton, chief executive for the Managed Service Provider (MSP) Technology Specialists, remembers his Fourth of July weekend this year like many MSP employees likely remember theirs: As a bit of a nightmare. Their backups worked, Tipton said, but the process itself happened slower than expected.

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Feds Warn About Critical Infrastructure Ransomware Attacks, Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

The agencies offered some sound cybersecurity advice for BlackByte that applies pretty generally: Conduct regular backups and store them as air-gapped, password-protected copies offline. Update and patch operating systems, software, and firmware as soon as updates and patches are released. How to Use the CISA Catalog.

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How to Improve SD-WAN Security

eSecurity Planet

This cloud-centric model offers administrators granular network management opportunities while leveraging the bandwidth and reducing the cost of service delivery. The traffic is then decrypted and inspected using antivirus scanning and web filtering. Traditional Networks vs Software-Define Networks (SDN). SDN vs SD-WAN.

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Privileged account management challenges: comparing PIM, PUM and PAM

CyberSecurity Insiders

This includes the ability to install software, change its settings, manage backup operations, and more. The presence of such rights for a user does not mean that he becomes an administrator. The concept of PIM, in contrast to PAM, is aimed at managing existing accounts: administrator, root, etc.

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Is Cloud Storage Safe From Ransomware?

Spinone

These are words that no system administrator or business leader wants to hear from anyone using a computer on their network. Let’s take a look at current ransomware variants that have shown they can attack your data in the cloud and by means of cloud-based technologies.