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GUEST ESSAY: 7 tips for protecting investor data when it comes to alternative asset trading

The Last Watchdog

Conduct regular penetration testing. Regular and thorough penetration testing is crucial for identifying vulnerabilities within trading systems. Enforce a culture of strong passwords, two-factor authentication and responsible data access practices to foster a security-conscious culture.

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Six Steps to Protect Your Organization from Ransomware | #RansomwareWeek

CyberSecurity Insiders

Conduct risk assessments and penetration tests to determine the organization’s attack surface and what tools, processes and skills are in place to defend against attacks. If an attack occurs, Gartner notes, the press is likely to contact company directors, not the CISO. Initial Assessments. Ransomware Governance. User Training.

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ROUNDTABLE: Why T-Mobile’s latest huge data breach could fuel attacks directed at mobile devices

The Last Watchdog

The attacker claims to have compromised an end-of-lifed GPRS system that was exposed to the internet and was able to pivot from it to the internal network, where they were able to launch a brute force authentication attack against internal systems. Most immediately is the ubiquity of 2-factor authentication.

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Vulnerability Management Policy Template

eSecurity Planet

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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Hackers Tap into Oldsmar Water Facility

Security Boulevard

By Curtis Simpson, CISO. Shodan) and penetration testing toolkits (e.g. Edge access remains critical and should always be tightly controlled, require multiple pieces of authentication to prove identity, and continuously monitored for abnormal and potentially malicious activity. Hackers Tap into Oldsmar Water Facility.

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ThreatWise TV: Exploring Recent Incident Response Trends

Cisco Security

Mimikatz is not malware per-se and can be useful for penetration testing and red team activities. And finally, Cisco Advisory CISO Wolfgang Goerlich has created this storytelling video, to help people think about incident response in a new way: . But bad actors leverage it as well, and over the last few quarters CTIR has?observed

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NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulations: Key Deadlines

NopSec

Appointing a CISO (section 500.4(a)) Not only is it difficult and time-consuming to find a highly competent CISO to fill this position, but a CISO is key in helping you put together a cybersecurity program and policy to begin with. a)) — We generally recommend that this be your first step.