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Oldsmar’s Cyber Attack Raises the Alarm for the Water Industry

Cisco Security

How could remote access capabilities be installed without proper security policies and strong authentication being enforced? In the United States, the America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) requires water utilities serving more than 3,300 people to develop or update risk assessments and Emergency Response Plans (ERPs).

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Six existential threats posed by the future of 5G (Part One)

CyberSecurity Insiders

Below, we explore these risk factors in depth and determine what can be done to mitigate the threat moving forward. This move to the virtual brings a variety of new security risks including, danger of cross-contamination, data leakage and the spread of malware – all of which we can bet malicious actors will be waiting to take advantage of.

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Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Increasing the use of advanced IoT devices. The deployment of new devices—especially those categorized as IoT that use wireless networks and sensors to collect and exchange information—is a double-edged sword. Today, there is a need to protect the authenticity of individual vaccination records. Adopt a zero-trust policy.

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Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Increasing the use of advanced IoT devices. The deployment of new devices—especially those categorized as IoT that use wireless networks and sensors to collect and exchange information—is a double-edged sword. Today, there is a need to protect the authenticity of individual vaccination records. Adopt a zero-trust policy.

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Six existential threats posed by the future of 5G (Part Two)

CyberSecurity Insiders

In our previous blog on this topic, we looked into how a virtual network infrastructure, combined with the use of an unprecedented volume of data, and the introduction of the IoT on 5G networks, all posed a significant challenge to mobile operators in their desire to create secure 5G. Leveraging the possibility offered by private networks.

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Three ways ISE 3.0 enables visibility-driven network segmentation to gain zero trust

Cisco Security

But then you realize you haven’t had a perimeter for some time as it has been pulled apart by cloud, mobility, and IoT. A core tenant of zero trust is continually authenticating the endpoint and authorizing access. You are confused and not sure how the attacker was able to get by your perimeter. With ISE 3.0, Guided workflows.

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What is Digital Identity, and why is it important?

CyberSecurity Insiders

The same is also true for machines which speak to other machines as part of the Internet of Things (IoT). Well, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, trust is everything. We have also published a whitepaper on the topic which you can download for free here. Why is Digital Identity so important?

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