The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 8, 2023

Smarter security to me broadly refers to relentlessly focusing on fundamentals while maturing the program, making sure your risk posture aligns with your business strategy. It means anti-phishing tools so your teams can open emails without needless hesitation or risk. This leads to revenue gains and positive customer outcomes.

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BH Consulting

APRIL 16, 2025

Dr. Ng emphasised the balancing act between innovation and risk. Cloud calls for cooperation in a changed risk landscape Has computing really changed with the cloud? Although the core architecture hasnt shifted drastically, he said the risk landscape has.

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McAfee

AUGUST 3, 2021

In the context of cybersecurity, a patchwork of stovepipe solutions not only exposes the environment to risk, but also impacts the cyber defender’s ability to fortify the environment and respond to threats at machine speed. MVISION Insights and MVISION XDR are great starts. Workflows are effortless to orchestrate.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

Risk Framework and Machine Learning The Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML) has released " An Architectural Risk Analysis of Machine Learning Systems." BIML has released the work in two ways, an interactive risk framework contains a subset of the information in the PDF version.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

SASE architectures must be validated end to end—from users and branches, through SASE points of presence, to cloud application servers. Additionally, performance needs to be profiled across all networks and SASE behavior measured across all architectures—virtualized, containerized, and bare metal Jeyaretnam Test for the real world.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

New architectures such as multi-cloud and microservices have made consistent security controls […] The post Software Supply Chain Risks for Low- and No-Code Application Development appeared first on Radware Blog. This can happen through backdoors planted in software updates, as seen in incidents like SolarWinds and Kaseya.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Tools like ChatGPT and Bard, powered by large language models, showcase how generative AI transforms business processesbut they also pose new risks. In a recent survey, 93% of respondents admitted to knowingly increasing their companys cybersecurity risks. The challenge? Securing these AI models and the data they generate.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Stronger factors significantly improve the user experience and mitigate the risk of phishing , stolen credentials, and man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks. A generated credential only works for the application or website it was created for, decreasing risk of being phished through fraudulent sites. a fingerprint reader).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Ambitious information security experts serve as a critical part of cyber risk management. This can be achieved through the use of cyber risk management approaches. This article explores the need for security and provides an overview of cyber risk assessment.

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McAfee

AUGUST 23, 2020

“Features are a nice to have, but at the end of the day, all we care about when it comes to our web and cloud security is architecture.” – said no customer ever. As a result, organizations are coming around to the realization that digital transformation demands a corresponding network and security architectural transformation.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2022

Identity credentials and source code are critical assets that can create major risks for your organization when exposed by breaches of third-party cloud service companies that provide identity management and software composition analysis. Know the risks of pushing your crown jewels into other services running in the cloud.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 30, 2024

These rules , which mandate that all public companies disclose material cybersecurity incidents within four business days and detail their risk management strategies, highlight that cybersecurity is a board-level risk management concern. Tenable CEO Amit Yoran had a clear point of view when he wrote about the rules as they took effect.

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Cisco Security

APRIL 21, 2021

This blog is co-authored by Mohammad Iqbal and is part four of a four-part series about DevSecOps. The trend towards accelerated application development, and regular updates to an architecture through an agile methodology, reduces the efficacy and effectiveness of point-in-time threat modeling. To contextualize a requirement.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 25, 2024

Let’s discuss an acronym reshaping the business world: Vendor Risk Management , or VRM. With supply chains extending across multiple regions and involving numerous third-party vendors, organizations face unprecedented challenges in managing vendor risks effectively. What risks are you facing?

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Access controls are the nexus of security and the expanding perimeter, and zero trust is the architecture that encompasses it. Zero trust is an all-inclusive security and privacy architecture. The network security perimeter is dynamically created and policy-based, and must be guarded by secure and highly managed access controls.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 30, 2021

Web architecture from the past decade followed a trend where most web applications were server heavy, and enterprises’ data centers handled the bulk of the processing. Due to optimized speeds and improved computing capacity on client devices, the architecture has evolved over the last few years.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2025

In this blog, we share three challenges cybersecurity leaders say exposure management helps them solve. The core cybersecurity discipline is evolving into exposure management , which is built on a broader, more strategic approach to identifying, prioritizing and mitigating risk.

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Google Security

APRIL 4, 2025

In this blog post we will illustrate why this release is important from Googles point of view. Model and data poisoning , prompt injection , prompt leaking and prompt evasion are just a few of the risks that have recently been in the news. With the advent of LLMs, the ML field has entered an era of rapid evolution.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

The threat comes from three primary areas, they wrote: Supply chain risks (an attack vector that became a high-profile threat after the SolarWinds attack ), malicious threat actors and insider threats. It helps reduce risks through deep visibility into the host operating system and OpenShift and reports back metrics to reduce risk.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2025

It examines the rising risks associated with AI, from cybercriminals weaponizing AI for more sophisticated attacks to the security implications of recent AI advancements like the open source model DeepSeek, while providing best practices for mitigating these risks.This blog post summarizes several highlights from the report.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Category Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Third Party Risk Risk Level In the interconnected web of modern business ecosystems, supply chain risks have emerged as insidious threats, leaving even the most vigilant organizations vulnerable to devastating cyber breaches. What are some strategies for mitigating supply chain risks? ❯

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Wikipedia uses a CMS for textual entries, blog posts, images, photographs, videos, charts, graphics, and “ talk pages ” that help its many contributors collaborate. Design your architecture in a way where the CMS back end (the behind-the-scenes content repository) is not directly coupled to the front end (the presentation system).

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Cisco Security

MARCH 17, 2021

SASE is a network architecture that combines SD-WAN capabilities with cloud-native security functions. Yet, transitioning existing network into a SASE architecture is a journey, where organizations must take into consideration overall business goals, architecture prerequisites, and licensing requirements. What is SASE?

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2025

Back in September 2024, CISA sounded the alarm on critical infrastructure organizations susceptibility to common, well-known attack methods in its CISA Analysis: Fiscal Year 2023 Risk and Vulnerability Assessments report. Coast Guard conducted in 2023. Enforce multi-factor authentication across all software development environments.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 12, 2022

In Part 1 of this five-part blog series focusing on each of the top five security practices outlined in the study, a tech refresh strategy is under the microscope. Figure 1: Effect of IT architecture traits on tech refresh performance. Help implement consolidated, cloud-based architectures. What does it mean? Why does it matter?

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Policy management is the sturdy scaffolding that supports governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) objectives while shaping corporate culture and ensuring adherence to regulatory obligations. It anchors organizational goals, mitigates risks, and guides compliance. Tailored : No one-size-fits-all.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 30, 2023

Introduction Today you look at the Global/Multi-site Enterprise Security Architecture of an organization and see a myriad of concerns. Global/Multi-Site Enterprise Architecture Many organizations are using Global/Multi-site with dated technology spread throughout data centers and networks mixed in with some newer technologies.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 25, 2024

While this is definitely a step up in security from using VPNs , jump server can sometimes create a false sense of security because there still exists security risks and loopholes. In this blog post, we will first explore the security benefits and risks of a jump server. Top 5 Security Risks of Jump Server 1.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

” reads a blog post published by the researcher. “OTA is based on client/server architecture where at one end there is an operator back-end system (customer care, billing system, application server…) and at the other end there is a SIM card,” continues the researcher. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Related: The demand for ‘digital trust’ Organizations rely on ISO 27001 to guide risk management and customer data protection efforts against growing cyber threats that are inflicting record damage , with the average cyber incident now costing $266,000 and as much as $52 million for the top 5% of incidents.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Today’s application architectures support fast, continuous innovation. Back end architectures use small, independent code modules called microservices. Clearly today’s application architectures use a lot of components, making them more complex, but the benefits run deep. Complexity breeds security risk.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2025

Organizations have respondedand must continue toby adopting AI-powered cybersecurity tools and implementing zero trust architecture as a critical countermeasure. Unlike traditional applications, GenAI introduced unique threat models, including risks of accidental data leakage and adversarial attacks aimed at poisoning AI outputs.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 30, 2018

We see plant asset owners addressing cyber risks with more vigilance, and vendors hardening their solutions with cybersecurity built directly into the product offer. However, it’s a risk/reward situation, and as an industry, we must continuously address the threat of cyber warfare in this pervasively connected world.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. The problem becomes – how do we make sure we’re securing these “driving data centers” against the risks and threats that lurk on the Internet? What’s driving the security of IoT? Thu, 03/11/2021 - 07:39. The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. Device Security is Hard. Edge Devices.

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McAfee

AUGUST 9, 2021

Organizations are working hard to adopt Zero Trust architectures as their critical information, trade secrets, and business applications are no longer stored in a single datacenter or location. Architecture: McAfee Enterprise’s open architectural methodology emphasizes the efficiencies that cloud adoption and open frameworks can offer.

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Notice Bored

JUNE 23, 2022

Having recently blogged about the dreaded SoA , 'nuff said on that. ISO/IEC 27003 offers a page of 'guidance on formulating an information security risk treatment plan (6.1.3 For some curious reason, the S tatement o f A pplicability steals the limelight in the ISO27k world, despite being little more than a formality. a) through c).

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Centraleyes

MAY 5, 2025

By achieving ISO 27001 certification , organizations can demonstrate to stakeholders that theyve implemented a rigorous, internationally accepted framework for managing and protecting information security risks. Determine Risk Treatment Options: Decide whether to mitigate, transfer, accept, or avoid risks.

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