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A Reactive Cybersecurity Strategy Is No Strategy at All

CyberSecurity Insiders

By increasing visibility into DNS traffic, CISOs can detect, block, and respond to incidents more quickly as well as use this data to institute new controls and increase overall resiliency. So why aren’t more organizations taking advantage of protective DNS? The issue likely comes down to awareness.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. Everything You Need to Know.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. This article explores network security architecture components, goals, best practices, frameworks, implementation, and benefits as well as where you can learn more about network security architecture.

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Best Practices to Make Sure VPN Access Remains Seamless

eSecurity Planet

Depending on the company’s VPN architecture, this can be done through a cloud provider by increasing seats, adding licenses to the existing VPN hardware solution, or purchasing and deploying new VPN servers. To accommodate this increased demand, organizations can optimize VPN server use by using traffic steering at the DNS layer.

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5 Ransomware Trends in 2021 All Businesses Need to Prep For

CyberSecurity Insiders

The Data Backup and Recovery System that Protects Against Ransomware. For companies without those types of resources, a solid data backup and recovery solution can do the job. But the problem is, most data backup and recovery solutions are at risk of being infected with ransomware.

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In-depth analysis of the new Team9 malware family

Fox IT

When the loader starts its execution, it checks if another instance of itself has infected the host already by attempting to read the value ‘BackUp Mgr’ in the ‘Run’ registry key ‘SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun’ (Figure 1). Next, the loader fingerprints the Windows architecture. The loader contains two ‘.bazar’

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How to Stop DDoS Attacks: Prevention & Response

eSecurity Planet

For example, the 2016 DDoS attack on the Dyn managed domain name service (DNS) caused the DNS service to fail to respond to legitimate DNS inquiries and effectively shut down major sites such as PayPal, Spotify, Twitter, Yelp, and many others. Also read: How to Secure DNS. Types of DDoS Attacks. Harden infrastructure.

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