The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

As an enterprise security team, you could restrict internet access at your egress points, but this doesn’t do much when the workforce is remote. Back up your data and secure your backups in an offline location. In short, anything accessible from the internet should be given extra attention. Food for thought, eh!

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Ransomware Risk Internet Internet 247

CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Working with several internet infrastructure and hosting providers, including Cloudflare, Google disrupted the operation of an aggressive Windows botnet known as Glupteba that was being distributed through fake ads. It also served itself as a distribution network for additional malware. To read this article in full, please click here

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Adam Shostack

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

It is not a book for the CSO. Part I is basic cyber ‘hygiene’ for the exec, including actionable steps like turn on updates and backups and two factor auth. (I And it doesn’t fall into the jargon trap either in security or management. It is a book for executives, including, but not limited, to CEOs.

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CSO Cyber Risk Backups Risk 100

Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD]. I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 8, 2021

It even took steps to make it harder for victims to recover from data backups. Dom Glavach, CSO and chief strategist, CyberSN. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. From there, the malware began encrypting files on the victim’s machine.

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