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Portnox Cloud: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

authentication to gather endpoint information for reporting and enforcement. across all network devices to streamline audits and reporting Integrates via RESTful API with security information and event management (SIEM) solutions Customizable risk policy based on the mode of access (wired, VPN), location, requested network device, etc.

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Avoslocker ransomware gang targets US critical infrastructure

Security Affairs

In some cases, the gang also threatened and conducted distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during negotiations. In some cases, AvosLocker negotiators also threaten and launche distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during negotiations, likely when the victims are not cooperating, to convince them to comply with their demands.

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Vulnerability Recap 4/15/24 – Palo Alto, Microsoft, Ivanti Exploits

eSecurity Planet

Threats range from severe weaknesses in Ivanti’s VPN appliances to zero-day exploits in popular software such as Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS and Telegram’s Windows client. You can strengthen your cybersecurity defenses by using reliable antivirus software, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and virtual private networks (VPNs).

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Website Security Products Every Partner Should Offer

SiteLock

Meanwhile, Cisco estimates that the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks will nearly double from 7.8 Website Backup: Website backups help customers encrypt a snapshot of their website’s important files, folders, and databases. million in 2018 to 15.4 million in 2023.

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How to Prevent DDoS Attacks: 5 Steps for DDoS Prevention

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Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks seek to cripple a corporate resource such as applications, web sites, servers, and routers, which can quickly lead to steep losses for victims. However, DDoS attackers sometimes even target the specific computers (or routers) of unwary people – often to harass video gamers, for example.

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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

Nobody told them that their coffee machine could be hacked into or that their camera could be used to launch a DDoS attack. If such processes lack proper authentication steps, they could work as gateways for bigger problems. Before the device applies the update, it sends a backup to the servers.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

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DNS communicates in plain text and, without modification, DNS assumes that all information it receives is accurate, authentic, and authoritative. To protect the protocol, best practices will add additional protocols to the process that encrypt the DNS communication and authenticate the results. MFA methods should be carefully selected.

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