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Cybersecurity industry reacts as antivirus pioneer John McAfee found dead

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antivirus pioneer John McAfee was found dead in a Spanish prison cell on Wednesday June 25, 2021. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. According to Spanish authorities, the cause of the 75-year-old’s death was suicide.

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Microsoft tells Exchange admins to revert previously recommended antivirus exclusions

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Microsoft is advising Exchange Server administrators to remove some of the endpoint antivirus exclusions that the company's own documentation recommended in the past. The rules are no longer needed for server stability and their presence could prevent the detection of backdoors deployed by attackers.

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How to choose an endpoint protection suite

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Studies show that CSO readers are most likely to know that endpoint protection is the modern iteration of the antivirus tools of previous generations. Antivirus, more appropriately known as antimalware, has matured significantly since the days of dedicated antivirus servers, daily signature updates, and manually managed policies.

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8 top identity and access management tools

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No organization would be caught without firewalls and antivirus scanners to catch low-sophistication attacks, but the real battle to protect the network has moved to the realm of identity and access management (IAM). [ 5 steps to simple role-based access control (RBAC) | Sign up for CSO newsletters ! ]

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LockFile ransomware uses intermittent encryption to evade detection

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The threat uses what researchers from antivirus vendor Sophos call “intermittent encryption,” meaning it only encrypts chunks of data inside a file instead of its complete contents. Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ]

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17 cyber insurance application questions you'll need to answer

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At first, most of the cyber insurance questions involved basic computer security and merely checked to see if we had firewalls and antivirus and not much else. Now the questions suggest that insurance providers understand that network security includes much more than antivirus software.

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BrandPost: How Much Risk Are You Willing to Take?

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I have seen macro changes such as the rotation of antivirus solutions from the endpoint to the gateway and back again, as well as the bundling of endpoint security products such as antivirus, antispyware, host intrusion prevention, and application control into an endpoint protection platform ( EPP ).

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