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Best Practices Q&A: The importance of articulating how cybersecurity can be a business enabler

The Last Watchdog

The technology and best practices for treating cybersecurity as a business enabler, instead of an onerous cost-center, have long been readily available. These key capabilities fall under the four competencies of oversight, process risk management, technology risk management, and human risk management. What are some basic first steps?

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Q&A: Here’s why VPNs are likely to remain a valuable DIY security tool for consumers, SMBs

The Last Watchdog

Much of the hard evidence came from correlating breached databases sitting in the open Internet. Statistically, every US internet user has lost 27 data points on average to online breaches, most of them emails, passwords and usernames. Data scientists sorted through 27,000 leaked databases and created 5 billion combinations of data.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

Editor’s note: I recently had the chance to participate in a discussion about the overall state of privacy and cybersecurity with Erin Kapczynski, OneRep’s senior vice president of B2B marketing. Byron: I was initially drawn to cybersecurity as a USA TODAY technology reporter assigned to cover Microsoft.

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Help Your Security Team Sleep Better at Night by Reducing False Positives

CyberSecurity Insiders

Specifically, if your applications sit behind legacy web application firewall (WAF) technologies, the demands on your security team can quickly become unmanageable. You are likely using Web APIs to support both B2B communication and the mobile applications that users increasingly rely on in lieu of a traditional web browser.

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The Evolution of API: From Commerce to Cloud

Security Affairs

APIs then played an important role in the birth of the Internet, offering a way for applications to exchange data across the Internet via a specific set of protocols. These early iterations of APIs were instrumental in defining standards for how data could and would be shared as the world became more technologically enabled.

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Spotlight on Cybersecurity Leaders: Dr. Cheryl Cooper

SecureWorld News

Answer: The decision to pursue a career in cybersecurity came easy to me, as I was tenured as a technology and telecommunications professional for 15 years. I knew that security holes existed for years, but because communications were more commonly B2B, it was not a priority. I enjoyed troubleshooting systems and solving problems.

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Don’t Drown your Security Team in Low-Value WAF Alerts

CyberSecurity Insiders

Well established web technologies, including RESTful APIs, and a growing selection of open source and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software enable your users to access critical business capabilities using any device that can connect to the Internet, including personal mobile devices.

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