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Cybersecurity Snapshot: U.S. Gov’t Urges Adoption of Memory-Safe Languages and Warns About Iran Cyber Threat

Security Boulevard

Tenable CSO Bob Huber called the DHS bulletin “a stark reminder of the volatile environment that organizations and their cyber leaders operate in ” in a blog post this week. Protect your password-manager account with multi-factor authentication, and with a strong password you haven’t used elsewhere.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA’s Best Cyber Advice on Securing Cloud, OT, Apps and More

Security Boulevard

Enforce multi-factor authentication across all software development environments. The scope of the BOD 25-01 includes all production or operational cloud tenants (operating in or as a federal information system) utilizing Microsoft 365, Tenable Staff Research Engineer Mark Beblow explained in a recent blog about this directive.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Experts Issue Best Practices for Migrating to Post-Quantum Cryptography and for Improving Orgs’ Cyber Culture

Security Boulevard

“The principles describe cultural conditions that are essential underpinnings for an organisation to be cyber secure and offer an approach to developing that culture,” reads an NCSC blog. critical infrastructure must be ready for cyber war In addition to preventing and mitigating standalone cyber threats and attacks, U.S.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Apply Zero Trust to Critical Infrastructure’s OT/ICS, CSA Advises, as Five Eyes Spotlight Tech Startups’ Security

Security Boulevard

The new guidance explains the benefits that come with strong authentication, while also minimising the friction that some users associate with MFA,” reads an NCSC blog. In other words, what type of MFA method to use depends on people’s roles, how they work, the devices they use, the applications or services they’re accessing and so on.

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Key Cybersecurity Trends for 2025. My Predictions

Jane Frankland

In this blog, I’m exploring these changes, grouped under key categories that I’ve used in previous years, to help business leaders and cyber risk owners better prepare for the evolving landscape. This convergence requires CISOs to go beyond traditional security practices and prove their business value.

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GitHub Discovers Authentication Issue

SecureWorld News

GitHub announced a security update due to a bug causing issues with the authentication of sessions. On March 2, GitHub received an external report of anomalous behavior for their authenticated GitHub.com user session. This would give them the valid and authenticated session cookie for another user. How did GitHub fix the issue?

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A Clear and Present Need: Bolster Your Identity Security with Threat Detection and Response

Duo's Security Blog

“It took nearly 11 months (328 days) to identity and contain data breaches resulting from stolen or compromised credentials.” – IBM’s Cost of Data Breach Report 2023 I recently came across a 2012 article from CSO Online , and realized that it has been more than 11 years since the phrase “Identity is the new perimeter” was coined!