Security Boulevard

APRIL 4, 2024

Organizations need a robust backup strategy that can outsmart bad actors. The post The Five Essentials of Immutable Storage: Why They Matter appeared first on Security Boulevard. And these days, that strategy must include immutability.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2018

G Suite for Education backup and security should be taken seriously as GSFE (formerly known as Google Apps for Education) puts creative, nimble, and flexible learning at the center of the educational experience. How to Ensure G Suite for Education Backup and Security? What is Google G Suite for Education (GSFE)?

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In fact, more than half (52%) of respondents now feel more at risk of suffering a ransomware attack due to these unfolding events. Budget constraints and small security teams were cited as the primary roadblocks. Sixty-seven percent of SMBs conduct security awareness training twice a year or less.

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IT Security Guru

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

As human errors have always been a significant cybersecurity risk and vulnerability, continuous security awareness education is paramount. Conduct regular training sessions to educate your people about the latest threats and minimise the negligent insider threat risk.

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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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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2023

For example, threat actors are using new programming languages like Rust to help avoid detection by security software and exfiltrating data (instead of encrypting it) so they can threaten organizations that use backups. The post How to Know if You’ve Been Infected by Ransomware appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

But, the issues around cybersecurity are here to stay, and the gas pedal must not be eased – especially with the increased risks associated with continued remote working. If anything, security should be more reinforced now than ever before to ensure all aspects of a business are secure. But this isn’t the case.

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Cytelligence

MAY 24, 2023

It aligns with our business strategy by mitigating cybersecurity risks that could impact our reputation, financial stability, and regulatory compliance. What are the key cybersecurity risks our organization faces? These risks can result in financial losses, reputational damage, and regulatory penalties.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 17, 2023

This can include measures such as firewalls , antivirus, access management and data backup policies, etc. It provides a framework for managing cybersecurity risk and is widely used by organizations in the U.S. Organizations put controls, tools, and processes in place to ensure safe operations and mitigate various risks.

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Notice Bored

JULY 21, 2022

Reducing the problem to its fundamentals, there is a desire to end up with software/systems that are 'adequately secure', meaning no unacceptable information risks remain. That implies having systematically identified and evaluated the information risks at some earlier point, and treated them appropriately - but how?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The good news is in the latter attack the victims restored its backups. The FBI provided the following mitigations to protect against ransomware attacks: Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline. Focus on cyber security awareness and training. Disable hyperlinks in received emails.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2022

The report also includes a list of mitigation measures to increase the resilience of company networks: Implement a recovery plan to maintain and retain multiple copies of sensitive or proprietary data and servers in a physically separate, segmented, and secure location (i.e., Regularly back up data, password protect backup copies offline.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Conduct security awareness training. Your colleagues should be trained on recognizing data security threats and how to face them to prevent your data from being compromised. Implement device security measures. Backup protects you from data loss. Determine the effectiveness of your security controls.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 1, 2021

On the other hand, some threat types are not prevalent and pose significantly less risk. To properly detect and protect against APT attacks requires full-scale cooperation from almost everyone in the organization, including IT staff, individual users (essentially all employees) and third parties like security providers.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

IBM’s “ 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report ” details the costs that come from a data breach as a result of various cybersecurity risks. An extremely important part of overall cybersecurity planning is performing a cybersecurity risk assessment. What is a cybersecurity risk assessment? Why is it important?

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

The #StopRansomware guide is set up as a one-stop resource to help organizations reduce the risk of ransomware incidents through best practices to detect, prevent, respond, and recover from them, including step-by-step approaches to address potential attacks. Create offsite, offline backups. Don’t get attacked twice.

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Spinone

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Perhaps, KnowBe4’s best-known course is Kevin Mitnick’s security awareness training , which helps your colleagues to learn about spam, phishing, ransomware, and ways to protect your data against these threats. Also, Infosec provides a free risk test.

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Hacker Combat

JUNE 2, 2022

Employees should undergo frequent cyber security awareness programs to keep them up to date on the latest cyber risks and how to recognize an attack in its early stages. To detect attacks, scan all emails and conduct regular data backups. Here are 6 preventive measures that companies can adopt to keep hackers at bay.

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Spinone

JULY 16, 2019

The risks are especially true for cloud services where everything is connected. Our clients face security risks every day, but they know how to prevent them. In this article, we will not only guide you through the woods of the most dangerous threats and risks of using public clouds. Through Backup and Sync service.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

The influx of remote working culture has added new challenges and cybersecurity risks for small businesses. In addition, few companies can provide access to password management software or VPNs to protect their internet connection and credentials and maintain security on rogue Wi-Fi networks.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

With the Russia-Ukraine conflict escalating into a war, the risk of cybersecurity threats targeting US & European organizations has also gone up significantly. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange uses the principles of zero trust to protect your organization from cyber risks. Backup and recovery. Security awareness training.

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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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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2022

Modern versions of Windows have lots of helpful security features, but Windows is still the most popular target for malware, so we strongly recommend that you install a third-party security solution like Malwarebytes Premium. Start backing up. Read our article about parental controls to learn what they can and can’t do for you.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Checking status at the point of entry helps mitigate this risk in a practical and immediate way.” — Richard Archdeacon, Advisory CISO, Duo Security But there was a limited time frame to make patches work. Maintaining Trusted Endpoint Security A trusted identity does reduce risk enormously. So make it easy.

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Spinone

AUGUST 14, 2020

Implement risk analysis and management. The first step of making your patients’ data secure is to determine what risks threaten it and how to mitigate them. One of the potential access risks is shadow IT , and you have to face this challenge. That’s why backup is required to protect PHI.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Agriculture may not be the first industry you associate with cybersecurity problems, but we all need to aware of the risks created by connecting this ancient part of our food supply chain to the Internet. The FBI notice includes the following recommendations: Regularly back up data, air gap, and password protect backup copies offline.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly at risk of cyber-attacks, and often serve as a launch pad for larger threat campaigns, according to Cisco’s 2018 SMB Cybersecurity Report. Security awareness should be ongoing and evolving. The Cloud Is not a Safe Haven from Security Flaws. DDoS Attacks.

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Vipre

JUNE 16, 2021

As a SMB end user, you are most vulnerable to the wiles of hackers and criminals when you are doing high-risk things without knowing just how risky they are. Ideally, you should do a backup at least once a week, but preferably once every twenty-four hours. Below are activities you should stop doing now.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ransomware attacks have become much more dangerous and have evolved beyond basic security defenses and business continuity techniques like next-gen antivirus and backups. The problem is that businesses are not yet aware of double or triple extortion ransomware and how these tactics can affect their data protection strategies.

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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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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

And a key part of building out any cybersecurity policy for your local government is to develop an organizational understanding of risk to systems, people, data, and so on. 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.

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Webroot

MAY 25, 2021

Be sure to choose vendors who provide the type of guidance, support, and enablement resources you need; who can and will advise you on how best to configure your cybersecurity and backup and disaster recovery systems; and who are invested in helping you ensure maximum return on the investment you and your customers are making in these solutions.

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Spinone

JULY 16, 2020

Using such apps might involve risks. A good admin understands these possible risks and takes measures. The audit ensures transparency of the apps and allows you to mitigate or avoid risks permanently. You can perform the audit through the Security , Apps , and Device management links in the admin console.

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Spinone

JULY 15, 2020

Good measures to protect your corporate data are: Establish and follow data security policies (for example, a password policy) Be able to detect and stop a cyberattack or data breach Monitor SaaS apps you use. To meet the availability criteria, you’ll need to maintain your systems so users are able to log in and use your service.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) published an updated advisory to advise those who pay ransom to unknown threat actors who have stolen or locked up their data about potential sanctions risks to the crime victim associated with making and facilitating ransomware payments. The new advisory supersedes.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

This is an example of how disruptive ransomware can be, even for the largest organizations,” said Erich Kron, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4. They will take their time to explore the network and find every important system prior to deploying the ransomware, including any backups and redundant infrastructure, and disable them.”.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 5, 2023

This makes them one of the easiest and most secure MFA approaches. Additionally, if the user must carry this key, there is also the added risk of it being lost. Take, for instance, Google's account security settings which allow you to download a list of backup codes intended for future use.

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