Zigrin Security

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For a detailed threat actor description do not forget to check out our blog article about selecting between black-box, white-box, and grey-box penetration tests and also you would know which pentest you need against a specific threat actor. Implement a robust backup strategy that includes both onsite and offsite backups.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2022

Authentication. Two-factor authentication is another important security measure for the cloud era. Increasingly, passwordless authentication is becoming the norm. Audits and penetration testing. Regular audits and penetration tests can help you identify vulnerabilities in your system.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

Specifically, the agency added: Recommendations for preventing common initial infection vectors Updated recommendations to address cloud backups and zero trust architecture (ZTA). Implement phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all services, particularly for email, VPNs, and accounts that access critical systems.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

Testing must be performed to verify that resources have been installed, configured, integrated, and secured without error or gap in security. Active Vulnerability Detection Vulnerability scans and penetration testing will be performed [quarterly] and after significant changes to resources to test for unknown vulnerabilities.

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Cytelligence

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Application Defense Conduct regular application vulnerability assessments and penetration testing to identify and remediate potential security weaknesses. Cloud Defense Implement cloud security best practices, such as secure configuration management, continuous monitoring, and regular backups.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 29, 2023

Implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) further increases security by forcing users to submit many pieces of identification before getting access. Planning for disaster recovery and routine data backup: Healthcare businesses may suffer severe consequences due to data loss or system malfunctions.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Test, test, test. Conducting frequent connection and penetration testing is important to ensure constant viability for users. Two-factor authentication. Advice for organizational adoption. Like many applications, ongoing maintenance is key.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Regularly backup your website files so you can restore your files in the event of a breach. Invest in a professional penetration testing service. This will simulate cyberattacks on your systems and applications to test how responsive and how vulnerable they are.

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 26, 2024

Regular security assessment and penetration testing can also be carried out to identify potential vulnerabilities that, if exploited by cyber threats, may compromise the systems of vehicles. GPS manipulation also disrupts location tracking and communication with vehicles, which is a major operational risk.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Last Wednesday, an anonymous individual published a file online containing the entirety of twitch.tv’s source code, information about twitch’s internal services and development tools, penetration testing reports and tools, and payouts to prominent Twitch streamers. The zero trust principle means not to trust devices by default.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Customers will be fully responsible for securing the storage, transfer, and backup of data to their cloud environment. Data backup. Customers that accidentally delete or allow attackers to corrupt their data may find the SaaS provider backup does not roll back sufficiently to recover the data. Access security controls.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Regular penetration testing and vulnerability assessments can be helpful, too. Multi-factor authentication (MFA): Forcing MFA for account access helps add an additional layer of security. Once risks are identified, the next step is gauging their potential impact. This is where risk assessment tools and frameworks come into play.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

HTTP Authentication When attempting to have HTTP traffic egress an RBI security product, you must be prepared to authenticate to get out. It can automatically utilize stored NTLM credentials if available on a local system using the WinInet API if the proxy accepts it for basic or NTLM authentication.

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NopSec

AUGUST 16, 2022

Individuals can use a configuration review scanner and authenticated scans to monitor the security of their operating systems automatically and make sure they aren’t affected by malware. This often includes storing a secure backup outside of the company’s IT system.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

Issues can be used in various ways; for instance, I have seen them used as a way to track individual tasks, IT help tickets, and even findings and security issues discovered in past penetration test reports.? You could stand up a tool, such as SharpWebServer , with the hopes of capturing Net-NTLMv2 authentication.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Web application scanners test your websites and web-facing apps for vulnerabilities. These tests typically use vulnerability scanners. Penetration testing is a similar approach, but typically involves teams of security pros attempting to simulate a cyber attack to identify weaknesses that could be exploited by hackers.

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SecureList

APRIL 15, 2024

See below the evidence found on one host of remote service creation by PsExec with authentication completed from multiple infected hosts. From an incident response point of view, this means finding evidence, if available, of different origins for the same threat.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You’re typically asking questions like: How should we implement authentication and authorization? Where do we backup data and code? And next up in the testing phase, implement a wide variety of security tests to test your application’s implementations and making sure no severe bugs make it to production.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2023

How to Protect Against Social Engineering Attacks Organizations can protect themselves against social engineering attacks by educating employees about the risks, enabling multi-factor authentication, and implementing security policies that require verification of any requests for sensitive information or actions.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Starting with penetration testing, ending up with incident response and forensics, so pretty much everything that is important for various customers all around the world. In my character, I like to research things, so basically I started with penetration testing, and I still do that. So what led Paula into forensics?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

We will group these technical controls into: User Access Controls Asset Discovery Controls Traffic Monitoring Controls Resilience, Maintenance & Testing Controls These tools rely heavily on the effective determination of administrative controls that define and determine the policies that will be implemented through the technical controls.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Logins without multi-factor authentication. Hunt and destroy or encrypt backups hosted in local and cloud networks as well as virtual machine snapshots. Enable multi-factor authentication. Protect your backup systems. Does backup protect against ransomware? Test your ability to restore from backups.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 11, 2023

The organization leverages on the Microsoft Kerberos Authentication framework to promote single sign-on (SSO) handshake and minimize single point of failure. The Kerberos System has helped a great deal in reducing administrative bottlenecks and promoting multi factor authentication (MFA) following the Challenge Handshake strings in Kerberos.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

An organization must: Prepare a good backup policy and procedure. Test both security and policies for effectiveness. We should use multi-factor authentication. More likely, a decryption tool is not an option, so we can next check if we have available backups through System Restore. Simple Ransomware Recovery.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Access Control Access controls add additional authentication and authorization controls to verify users, systems, and applications to define their access. Multi-factor authentication (MFA): Uses at least two (2FA) or more methods to authenticate a user, such as biometrics, device certificates, or authenticator apps.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

Solarwinds Network Configuration Manager Solarwinds’ Network Configuration Manager provides a package of solutions for network compliance, network automation, network configuration backup, and vulnerability assessment.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

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. Local backups for quick access.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Security infrastructure and redundancy: Check the vendor’s data centers, network architecture, backup and disaster recovery plans, and uptime assurances.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2021

They targeted a TeamViewer account that didn’t have multi-factor authentication enabled and ran in the background of an administrator’s computer. Penetration tests and good practices can prevent those flaws. Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection. How the Attackers Gained Unauthorized Access.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2022

How do you restore from backups , and what backups are most important to restore from first? A lot of organizations don’t run regular penetration tests or security audits, and not everyone has the funds to hire a pen testing firm. What is the company’s policy on dealing with attackers ? I get that,” Kujawa says.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

or face the risk of authenticated users (think of standard e-commerce customers) achieving total control of websites by exploiting Broken Access Control — the most severe of OWASP’s Top 10 risks. As of May 2023, an official CVE designation is still pending. Websites running Elementor Pro 3.11.6 Remove all unnecessary or unused software.

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Key features of network security: Network monitoring and management tools Access control and authentication systems Data encryption and decryption methods Firewall technology Regular security audits 2. It includes various security measures such as access control, encryption, and backups.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

do not conduct periodic penetration tests and analyses of the state of maturity of technical and organizational measures taken to reduce cyber risk; when these analyses flag weaknesses, they do not immediately handle them but are added to a “ to-do-list ” without a specific deadline in the short term; and.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Institute stringent password policies across all media management platforms , including mandated password complexity, frequent rotation, and multi-factor authentication (MFA). Conduct periodic simulated phishing tests and network penetration tests to gauge staff resilience to realistic attempts at breaches and theft.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

For example, the credit card industry’s PCI DSS requirements force organizations to use vendors unaffiliated with implementing IT infrastructure to conduct penetration testing. For IT services and infrastructure, some larger MSPs will provide generalist services and attempt to solve all problems. How Do MSPs Work?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

For example, the credit card industry’s PCI DSS requirements force organizations to use vendors unaffiliated with implementing IT infrastructure to conduct penetration testing. For IT services and infrastructure, some larger MSPs will provide generalist services and attempt to solve all problems. How Do MSPs Work?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Financial institutions in the 1990s and 2000s were some of the first to incorporate encryption to protect online transactions, particularly as backup tapes were lost in transit. Penetration testing and red teamers are critical for remaining vigilant in an ever-changing threat environment and catching the vulnerabilities otherwise missed.

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