The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2023

Therefore, the security of APIs is crucial to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive information and to protect against potential threats such as data breaches, unauthorized access, and malicious attacks. Over the last few years, we have observed that APIs are the favorite attack vector for hackers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

“In the current digital landscape, identity security has gained paramount importance due to the growing cyber risks posed by phishing and social engineering attacks utilizing AI. This lessens the possibility of data breaches and helps prevent unwanted access.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 20, 2018

How can organizations reduce, prevent, and even avoid data breaches in the cloud? Let’s look at a few strategies and technologies that can be successfully used to secure data in the cloud and help reduce and even prevent data breaches in the cloud. Take Your Cyber Risk Management to the Next Level!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 10, 2022

With businesses becoming more and more digitized, they are exposed to greater cyber risks. And while organizations are taking steps to protect against cyber attacks, cybersecurity controls are not impenetrable. Cyber risk insurance covers the costs of recovering from a security breach, a virus, or a cyber-attack.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Cumbersome password and authentication processes lead to poor user experiences and potential cyberthreats, putting the business and its people at risk. To create a more secure and convenient future, authentication must become passwordless. If you’re anything like me, remembering passwords is a pain.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The size of the cyber risk to companies cannot be underestimated. To indicate the size of the cyber risk to companies, there is, on average, a cyber-attack every 39 seconds, which does not mean that every attack is successful, but that there is an attempt to access companies’ computer systems with that frequency.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

In addition, if individual access is not quickly withdrawn upon an employee's departure from the organization, it might constitute an equally severe cyber risk. Without access management, organizations become increasingly vulnerable to data breaches arising from compromised identities.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Staying safe online is not just a worry for parents of young children and teenagers – organizations are also constantly at risk from cyber-attacks, which is why training staff to reduce the likelihood of any such attack is crucial. Using varied eLearning techniques.

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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. Common threats include misconfigurations, cross-site scripting attacks, and data breaches. Is data encrypted in transit and at rest?

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2022

It will be unsurprising that because of this demand, insurers are particularly careful how they build their policies to minimize their risk from large cyber events. This is especially true if the company looking for cover hasn’t taken adequate enough steps to minimize cyber risks itself.

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Creeping cyber risk grabbing global headlines The World Economic Forum’s latest Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024 gives senior leaders a high-level overview of cybersecurity trends. Cyber attacks featured in the top five risks for the year ahead, along with factors like extreme weather and the cost of living crisis.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, achieving Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) in today’s threat landscape does require some form of automation, especially in support of dynamic policy, authorization and authentication. Everyone can agree that implementing a Zero Trust Architecture can stop data breaches. The Zero Trust journey.

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IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Their loss ratios – total claims plus the insurer’s costs, divided by total premiums earned – are now consistently above 60%, which presents something of an existential threat to the insurance industry, making cyber risk a potentially uninsurable area due to falling profitability.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Apps are protected from unauthorized access, data breaches, and other unwanted actions thanks to proactive defenses that prevent and mitigate vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other security weaknesses. Prevention: Implement appropriate API access restrictions and authentication.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 15, 2023

Improved key management practices: With KMaaS, organizations can ensure that their keys are managed according to industry best practices, which helps minimize the risk of data breaches. Managing the encryption keys securely, KMaaS can help protect encryption and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The IAM vendors took single sign-on to the next level, adding multi-factor authentication and other functionalities. These vendors drilled down on “governance and attestation,” coming up with advanced ways to enable companies to monitor and report cyber risk profiles to government and industry auditors.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 16, 2023

Secrets management refers to tools and methods to securely store, access, and centrally manage the lifecycle of digital authentication credentials. This includes sensitive data such as passwords, encryption keys, APIs, tokens, and certificates. The simplest definition of a secret is that of a digital authentication credential.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 4, 2022

Cybersecurity insurance was originally designed to cover data breaches as a result of U.S. For example, credit monitoring and breach notification costs were the focus of early policies. As privacy regulations, as well as cyber risks increased, insurance covering these challenges has grown in popularity for many organizations.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

This tactic is called social engineering and is one of the key methods used in attacks that result in data breaches. These types of "unauthorized access" attacks account for 50% of all data breaches and can cost companies as much as $9.5M Outside of technology, there is the element of human error and risk.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 1, 2021

The consequences of a data breach can vary greatly depending on the intention of the adversary. The 2020 Global State of Industrial Cybersecurity report found that 74% of IT security professionals are more concerned about a cyberattack on critical infrastructure than an enterprise data breach. Multi-Factor Authentication.

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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s likely we’ll continue to witness a significant shift in the motivation behind prominent cyberattacks, as data sources indicate a resurgence in activities such as information theft, covert communication monitoring, and content manipulation from state sponsored attackers and cybercriminals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 29, 2024

However, a relentless barrage of data breaches, ransomware attacks, and sophisticated cyber threats steadily erodes this trust. PSD3 sets out more extensive Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) regulations and stricter rules on access to payment systems and account information and introduces additional safeguards against fraud.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 21, 2024

Creeping cyber risk grabbing global headlines Ransomware keeps reminding us of the strong connection between a cybersecurity incident and financial loss. Meanwhile, it was a similar story from a separate source, with AON’s Global Risk Management Survey also tracking global volatility and risk.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The report also includes five basic security steps all organizations should take to protect themselves from exposure and mitigate cyber risks. Cyber Risks Today. With the rise of data breach incidents, comes the rise of costs. You can read a brief summary of the report below. Prevent Brute Force Attacks.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 12, 2019

The company stored customer documents and records pertaining to mortgage deals going back 16 years in a way that was openly accessible to anyone with a web browser: zero authentication or encryption required. What matters here is that none of them are data breaches. They are all data leaks.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

From data breaches to sophisticated cyberattacks, enterprises are continuously at risk from a vast spectrum of potential cyber threats from malicious actors. This is where developing a hyper-specific Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) framework becomes essential.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Related: Cyber risks spinning out of IoT Credential stuffing and account takeovers – which take full advantage of Big Data, high-velocity software, and automation – inundated the internet in massive surges in 2018 and the first half of 2019, according to multiple reports. Hackers count on it.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 27, 2022

Corporate networks suffered 50% more cyber attack attempts per week in 2021 compared to the previous year, and the number of reported data breaches increased 68% year over year. Security breaches are not only costly, but sometimes catastrophic for companies. An infrastructure that is insecure puts their business at risk.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

Have I Been Pwned allows users to search across multiple data breaches to see if their email address has been compromised. This data is disconcerting and shows that we are far from to be secure even if security experts continue to warn users of cyber risks associated with the use of weak passwords.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 2, 2019

Small and midsize businesses — so-called SMBs — face an acute risk of sustaining a crippling cyberattack. This appears to be even more true today than it was when I began writing about business cyber risks at USA TODAY more than a decade ago. There are so many more ways to subvert authentication.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 29, 2024

However, a relentless barrage of data breaches, ransomware attacks, and sophisticated cyber threats steadily erodes this trust. PSD3 sets out more extensive Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) regulations and stricter rules on access to payment systems and account information and introduces additional safeguards against fraud.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As demand for cyber risk insurance increases, two recent developments could have policyholders scrambling to check their cover. Independent research like the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report consistently shows high numbers of breaches involving a human element. Always read the small print.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 26, 2023

Besides these threats, SMBs face increasing cyber risks as they rely on digital technology and services to innovate and gain an advantage in a competitive market. According to the World Economic Forum 2023 Global Risks Report, cybercrime and cyber insecurity are among the top 10 short- and long-term global risks.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Insecure implementations may result in unauthorized access to threat actors and potential data breaches.” This instance can result in NFV data breaches, resource exhaustion, or DDoS attacks. Incentivizing a Cyber Duty of Care. There are no secure implementation guides or standards for network operators.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 14, 2019

The MongoDB archive contains 854GB of data related to the last three years, it is the largest data leak incident of ever occurred in China. “On December 28th, Bob Diachenko, Director of Cyber Risk Research at Hacken.io “On December 28th, Bob Diachenko, Director of Cyber Risk Research at Hacken.io

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Spinone

JULY 16, 2020

Insufficient security measures may lead to a data breach, a situation of a company’s data being lost or stolen by hackers. As a result of a data breach, a business suffers severe damage, both financial and reputational. Moreover, reinforced access increases the level of authentication.

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Spinone

JANUARY 24, 2018

Cyber attacks should be of great concern for businesses of any size in this day and age. Data breaches are reaching epidemic levels, with 46 data records being stolen every second. In fact one of the main causes of data breaches is an unintentional leak due to a careless employee.

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