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World Backup Day on March 31 Seeks to Protect Data Before It's Gone

SecureWorld News

However, data is as vulnerable as it is valuable, and World Backup Day on Friday, March 31st, is a welcome reminder of the need to have a well thought out data protection strategy in place. The campaign began in 2011 as World Backup Month and was changed to World Backup Day later.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 3)

The Last Watchdog

Last Watchdog posed two questions: •What should be my biggest takeaway from 2023, with respect to mitigating cyber risks at my organization? Cryptographic inventories need finalizing and quantum safe encryption needs to be adopted for sensitive communications and data. What should I be most concerned about – and focus on – in 2024?

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MITRE ResilienCyCon: You Will Be Breached So Be Ready

eSecurity Planet

JupiterOne CISO Sounil Yu, creator of a Cyber Defense Matrix adopted by OWASP, noted the concentration of security products in protection and detection and wondered, “Is our industry actually solving the right problems? Backup Is Hard. “ Immutable backups ” are often touted as the answer here. Really Hard.

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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. Data Backup. Initial Assessments. Ransomware Governance.

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#ISC2CONGRESS – Lessons Learned from the Baltimore Ransomware Attack

CyberSecurity Insiders

The only saving grace was that the city had invested in both on-premise and cloud backups. When trying to log on to their computers, users were getting a message saying the systems had been encrypted with Ransom.Robinhood ransomware. Backup Strategy. Having a backup strategy is also critical. Still, it cost U.S. $18

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“Left of Boom” Cybersecurity: Proactive Cybersecurity in a Time of Increasing Threats and Attacks

Cisco Security

About 15 years ago, the idiom began to be applied to cybersecurity, where the risk management continuum values the investment in protection to mitigate the negative consequences of a cyber incident. We can never eliminate risk entirely, but we can manage it effectively with “Left of Boom” processes and procedures. Right of Boom”.

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Breach of healthcare debt collection firm exposes 1.9M patients – cyber experts weigh in

CyberSecurity Insiders

As hacks and extortion become more and more frequent, to truly minimize the risk of potential extortion and lost clear text data, a data security platform, specifically data-in-use encryption, also referred to as encryption-in-use, is the only option for complete protection and peace of mind.