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The ultimate guide to Cyber risk management

CyberSecurity Insiders

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. Cyber risk management. Risk control.

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GUEST ESSAY – A primer on ‘WAAP’ – an approach to securing APIs at the web app layer

The Last Watchdog

When we talk about the superpower of this microservice architecture, we should not forget- ‘great power comes with great responsibility’ – this holds true for API security. WAF (Web Application Firewall) employs setting rules based on IP addresses, and monitoring traffics to block malicious IPs. Tool limitations.

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Securing the edge with Zero Trust

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This requires data-level protections, a robust identity architecture, and strategic micro-segmentation to create granular trust zones around an Organization’s digital resources. Everyone can agree that implementing a Zero Trust Architecture can stop data breaches. The Zero Trust journey. Implementing Zero Trust.

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What is WAAP? – A Quick Walk Through

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Now, old monolith apps are being broken into microservices developed in elastic and flexible service-mesh architecture. Protecting APIs against modern cyber threats requires going beyond the traditional solutions. Web Application and API protection (WAAP) , the next generation of Web Application Firewall (WAF) comes to the rescue.

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MY TAKE: Why companies had better start taking the security pitfalls of API proliferation seriously

The Last Watchdog

That said, APIs are certain to get a lot more attention by security teams — and board members concerned about cyber risk mitigation — in 2022. Legacy security architectures just don’t fit this massively complex, highly dynamic environment. Related: ‘SASE’ framework extends security to the network edge.

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When It comes to Cybersecurity – An ounce of prevention

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Network design and architecture. Architecting a robust network with multiple layers of firewall protection, redundant pathways for both external and internal and isolating critical data is paramount in limiting the damage done by a threat actor. More complex architectures may be needed depending on the industry or the data.

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RSAC insights: Security platforms arise to help companies discover, assess and mitigate cyber risks

The Last Watchdog

In this hyperkinetic environment, a harried CISO needs to be able to visualize risk from a high level — as if it were moving in slow motion – and then make smart, strategic decisions. And the usual collection of security tools – firewall, endpoint detection, intrusion detection, SIEM, etc. See, assess, mitigate. Need a roadmap?