Webroot

AUGUST 27, 2021

When paired with the strong recommendation to use antivirus software at all times, NIST’s recommended prevention measures already cover two key areas of focus in a cyber resilience strategy: endpoint security and network protection. Don’t overlook security awareness training.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

That unified strategy shall include the following: Continuous Education and Training: No matter how robust your technical defences are, human is the most critical cybersecurity factor, as it involves mental processes, perception, reluctance, ignorance, and mood swings.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 19, 2023

That is how James McQuiggan, CISSP, Security Awareness Advocate for KnowBe4, kicked off the recent SecureWorld Remote Sessions webcast titled, "Ransomware, Ransom-war, and Ran-some-where: What We Can Learn When the Hackers Get Hacked." Did you hear the one about how the hacker got away from the FBI? He ran-some-where.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

This creates a major gap in security awareness, considering the 65,000 ransomware attacks deployed in the U.S. Education is another contributing factor, from both a regulatory and compliance perspective. It allows you to understand the purpose of building a security architecture and the tasks become more manageable.”.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2022

Backups Wiped Out But Tape, Snapshots Survive. As the backup account had been compromised and the backup server wiped out, online backups were useless. Although the backup server was useless, the company had retained a copy of all its data on tape. Also read: Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Curricula, an Atlanta based security company, is offering a free training in Cybersecurity for Small and Medium Business (SMBs) employees. The security awareness training will be offered in a virtual mode designed to defend organizations holding an employee count of over 1000 employees. Cannot secure endpoints.

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Vipre

MAY 5, 2021

Yes, endpoint security is a vital element in your malware defense, but it cannot do the job alone. For instance, failing to educate users on the dangers of phishing amounts to business malpractice. Your answers should make it obvious in which areas of security you need to invest: Are you training users on the dangers of phishing?

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Budget constraints and small security teams were cited as the primary roadblocks. Despite concern, security awareness training is infrequent: The vast majority of SMBs believe a successful ransom attack is the result of someone clicking on a malicious link or opening an email attachment.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

This includes a layered combination of DNS networking, secure endpoint connections, and an educated and empowered human workforce. The need for DNS security cannot be ignored, especially with the rise of remote workforces, in order to monitor and manage internet access policies, as well as reduce malware.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 22, 2021

However, education is critical to maintaining a business’ security posture, especially when it comes to ransomware. The most common way we see ransomware affecting organizations – government municipalities, healthcare and education institutions – is through a breach. Document your procedures.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Backup everything, test everything – Before shutting down devices for the weekend, security teams should backup all data and supporting IT infrastructure. Once completed, teams should test the backups to ensure they can handle an attack.

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Cytelligence

MAY 24, 2023

These include robust access controls, encryption, regular data backups, employee training on data handling practices, and compliance with relevant data protection regulations such as GDPR or HIPAA. How do we keep our employees informed and educated about cybersecurity? What measures are in place to protect sensitive data?

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SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

The main parts of stopped services and processes include databases, email services, browsers, programs for working with documents, security solutions, backups and shadow copy services. Make sure you can quickly access your backups in an emergency. To protect the corporate environment, educate your employees.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Over the last decade, K–12 schools have made great strides in employing technologies that facilitate learning—especially since the onset of pandemic-induced distance education. By January 2023, education had claimed over 80 percent of all global malware incidents —a staggering lead that has held since 2020.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

How to Educate Clients About Website Security. In the second post in this series, I discussed the struggle of getting your clients to actually care about website security and how to dispel the myth of “security being too complex to understand”. You can read all about that and more right here.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Website backup: Regular site backups allow for quick recovery after a disaster and protect one of the most important components of a website – the database. Although not formally included in the tech stack, education and security awareness is critical to any successful cybersecurity strategy.

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SiteLock

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

To do this, we recommend: Ensuring regular data backups and restore drills. Keeping operating systems and security software up to date. Training and educating users on ransomware. Investing in robust security solutions. Have your IT team restore everything from backup.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 15, 2021

With that in mind, educational districts – and organizations in other industry sectors for that matter – could learn a thing or two from the presenters who already went through an attack scenario. So now, “if we were attacked again, we can pick a day – a day before the attack, a week, a month, a year – and go back to that backup.

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SecureList

APRIL 18, 2022

The main parts of stopped services and processes include databases, email services, browsers, programs for working with documents, security solutions, backups and shadow copy services. Make sure you can quickly access your backups in an emergency. To protect the corporate environment, educate your employees.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Additionally, security teams must ramp up other areas of security hygiene in preparation for potential incidents, including: Patching. Ensure your enterprise applications are up-to-date with the latest security updates to minimize vulnerabilities. Backup and recovery. Security awareness training. Monitoring.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

Some of the best practices that you, as an owner of a small business, can exercise to reduce the attack vector includes: Educate employees by providing regular training sessions and conducting awareness programs about cyber-attacks like phishing , malware, or social engineering techniques.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In short, here is this approach: Data security Device security Network security Application security Email security Access security End-user behavior security Let’s look at these more closely and also mention some software you can use to shore up your defense.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 17, 2023

This can include measures such as firewalls , antivirus, access management and data backup policies, etc. This will help you determine the appropriate security measures to implement and prioritize your efforts.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

To mitigate this security challenge, businesses must educate their employees on the basics of cybersecurity and include cybersecurity policies in the onboarding process of every new employee. Security awareness should be ongoing and evolving. The Cloud Is not a Safe Haven from Security Flaws.

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SiteLock

OCTOBER 13, 2021

for security. Establish a regularly tested data backup and recovery procedure —and make sure your IT department sticks to it! Implement company-wide security awareness training to improve organizational education of critical cybersecurity threats and awareness.

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Spinone

MARCH 20, 2019

When considering a fully-featured and well thought out security plan , the human factor is an extremely important part of the equation, and arguably just as important as the technology component of the solution. In this article, we will take a look at cyber security awareness across an SMB organization.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 5, 2023

Take, for instance, Google's account security settings which allow you to download a list of backup codes intended for future use. However, should this list or even just one of the backup codes fall into the wrong hands, the attacker would have unimpeded access to the account, despite the active MFA.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Communication: During this phase, businesses should communicate the breach with their employees and implement security awareness training. That may mean installing a stronger web application firewall, a better backup solution for website and business files, and an automated malware scanner.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The plummeting price of Bitcoin in 2018, combined with the growth of users’ overall security awareness and better protection practices, caused ransomware operators to rethink their strategies. David Balaban is a computer security researcher with over 17 years of experience in malware analysis and antivirus software evaluation.

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Spinone

JULY 15, 2020

Also, we recommend implementing disaster recovery measures (like a data backup ) to ensure that your data will be available even in case of an emergency. Availability Availability refers to the accessibility of the information used by your systems and products/services. The post SOC 2 Compliance Checklist first appeared on SpinOne.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 7, 2021

At the same time, the University of California is asking those who get threatened to take one of two possible actions, which seem to be at the opposite ends of the spectrum: "Anyone receiving this message should either forward it to your local information security office or simply delete it.". If it’s suspicious, report it!

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Some industries saw particularly high growth of double-extortion attacks, including healthcare (643%), food service (460%), mining (229%), education (225%), media (200%), and manufacturing (190%). Double extortion ransomware increased by 117%. Keep software and training up to date. Have a response plan.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Protecting your business includes: Implementing a multi-layered cybersecurity approach that includes complete endpoint protection, firewalls, real time anti-phishing as well as Security Awareness Training Continuously educating and training employees, staff and customers to follow cybersecurity best practices and to stay up to date on cyberattack news (..)

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2023

By offering insights into previous traffic, this technique improves threat detection, troubleshooting, and overall security by enabling for educated decision-making and proactive optimization of firewall configurations. For in-depth log data analysis, explore using a security information and event management (SIEM) tool.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Data backup and restoration strategy : Backups are a prime target for attackers, so keep multiple copies of your data, and make sure at least one of them is online. Employee security awareness training. Check out our government case studies and education pages for more information. Incident response.

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Spinone

JULY 24, 2019

Control your Security Score Microsoft has its baseline of security for businesses. To measure whether or not your company meets those basic security requirements, you can use its inbuilt analytics tool, Microsoft Secure Score. Educate your Employees Human error is a more dangerous threat to your company than cyberattacks.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In some cases this may be a malicious leak of data by a disgruntled employee , but in the majority of cases this breach is inadvertent and caused by poor security procedures. This including accounting and team management software and cloud backup services.

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