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Why BYOD Is the Favored Ransomware Backdoor

eSecurity Planet

Unmanaged devices consist of any device that connects to the network, cloud resources, or other assets without corporate-controlled security. Secure web gateways (SWG) can sometimes inspect traffic and potentially detect increased and anomalous traffic. Attackers probably use BYOD and the research indirectly supports this.

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How Steganography Allows Attackers to Evade Detection

eSecurity Planet

In cybersecurity, steganography mainly consists of hiding malicious payloads or secret information inside seemingly harmless files such as images, PDFs, audios, videos, and many other document types. More sophisticated approaches may now involve artificial intelligence to create steganographic images using adversarial training.

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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

As 2023 draws to an end and cybersecurity budgeting is nearly complete, it helps to consider the year’s events and try to predict next year’s trends. After receiving input from industry experts and doing my own analysis of the year’s driving forces, I identified five major cybersecurity trends. Bottom line: Prepare now based on risk.

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2019 Recap: A Year to Remember

McAfee

Working Even Harder To End the Cybersecurity Talent Shortage. The term “skills gap” is all too familiar to those in the cybersecurity industry. The Release of The Cybersecurity Playbook. 12 th Annual MPOWER Cybersecurity Summit. First Cybersecurity Company to Achieve Global Gender Pay Parity.

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Spear Phishing Prevention: 10 Ways to Protect Your Organization

eSecurity Planet

Clearing Tracks Advanced attackers can also take steps to erase traces of their activities, which makes it more difficult for cybersecurity experts to identify and respond to a breach. social engineering tactics and strange sender behaviors), they also use artificial intelligence algorithms. Read more: What is Network Security?

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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

While organizations can invest in sophisticated cybersecurity and threat detection solutions to detect anomalous network and system activity, a socially-engineered conversation between a malicious actor and an untrained employee can easily slip under the radar. How does AI-powered social engineering affect businesses?

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Top Cybersecurity Products for 2021

eSecurity Planet

We’ve narrowed this list down to four categories of products that are essential to modern cybersecurity: Endpoint detection and response (EDR) , next-generation firewalls (NGFW) , cloud access security brokers (CASB) and security information and event management (SIEM). Top cybersecurity products. Best EDR tools.