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MITRE ResilienCyCon: You Will Be Breached So Be Ready

eSecurity Planet

Speakers at last week’s MITRE ResilienCyCon conference had a surprisingly candid message for attendees: You will likely be breached at some point so focus on the controls and response capabilities your organization needs to survive a cyber attack. Backup Is Hard. MSSPs Fare Well in First MITRE Evaluations. Really Hard.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 3)

The Last Watchdog

This means implementing multiple security controls including multifactor authentication (MFA), MDR or EDR, securing and well-maintaining backups, implementing Zero Trust architecture, and having ready swift, decisive incident response measures.

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US gov agencies e private firms warn nation-state actors are targeting ICS & SCADA devices

Security Affairs

“The APT actors’ tools have a modular architecture and enable cyber actors to conduct highly automated exploits against targeted devices. . “The APT actors’ tools have a modular architecture and enable cyber actors to conduct highly automated exploits against targeted devices.

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Maastricht University finally paid a 30 bitcoin ransom to crooks

Security Affairs

“Maastricht University (UM) has been hit by a serious cyber attack. UM is investigating if the cyber attackers have had access to this data.”. It is unclear if the attackers have exfiltrated data from the systems before encrypting them. “Part of our technical infrastructure was affected during the attack.

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One Year Later: What Have We Learned Since the Colonial Pipeline Attack

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Government Towards a Zero Trust Architecture dictate U.S. Cyber insurance is designed to help protect organizations against the fallout from cyber-attacks, including covering the financial costs of paying out ransomware demands and dealing with incidents. Some key things that organizations should do include: 1.

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Privacy and security in the software designing

Security Affairs

This will allow the client to verify the specified features and the designer to proceed with the implementation of the software architecture. In particular, the security requirements must absolutely constrain the solutions that will be adopted. It’s also important to develop a user manual and outline how the system will be tested.

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How CIOs Can Protect Data Against Ransomware Attacks in 2022

Security Boulevard

Today, the biggest mistake most security practitioners make is treating ransomware attacks as any other cyber attack. Research firm Gartner forecasts that by 2024, a cyberattack will damage critical infrastructure that a member of the G20 intergovernmental forums will reciprocate with a declared physical attack.