eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2023

Prioritize patches Assess the risk and impact of applying patches to ensure security and system stability. Patch deployment priorities are determined by assessing possible risks and effects of each patch. Further reading: Is the Answer to Vulnerabilities Patch Management as a Service?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Sophos’ recent report, The State of Ransomware , reveals that paying the ransom can end up costing companies double the overall remediation cost versus not paying or getting the data back through backups or other methods. Do the storage/system administrators also own and manage the encryption keys used for data-at-rest encryption?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

Applying the patches does not eliminate all risks but not doing so would be a significant risk. Identify and create offline backups for critical assets. System administrators can schedule scans to spot unauthorized system modifications or unwanted additional SSH accesses. Implement network segmentation.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2024

Exploitation enables attackers to falsify an SAML response, granting them administrative capabilities and unrestricted access without authentication. This poses serious security risks, particularly for organizations that handle sensitive data. This affected system administrators worldwide. 3.11.10, 3.10.12, and 3.9.15.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The FBI and other global law enforcement teams worked together on this case, compromising backups that were later restored by the gang, giving authorities access to internal systems, a tactic often deployed by the gang itself. 8 steps organizations can take to reduce ransomware risk. Are the backups stored offline?

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Their backups worked, Tipton said, but the process itself happened slower than expected. A disaster recovery plan is only as useful as it is accessible, and an inaccessible password vault could slow down literally every single part of a data recovery effort if administrators simply cannot access their accounts.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 6, 2021

Kaseya’s flagship product is a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution called the Virtual Systems Administrator (VSA) and is the product at the center of the current attack. When administrators noticed suspicious behavior on Friday, Kaseya shut down VSA. Backup data regularly. Managing supply chain risk.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

And when the meat supplier JBS was hit with ransomware, even though it reportedly had backups in place—which are the single most effective defense against ransomware—the company still chose to pay $11 million to its attackers for a decryption key. That is the risk.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This includes the ability to install software, change its settings, manage backup operations, and more. The presence of such rights for a user does not mean that he becomes an administrator. Since malicious activity often does not require all admin rights, this situation significantly increases the risk of a successful insider attack.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

As remote desktop solutions are prevalent among IT and managed service providers (MSP), downstream clients can be at risk, as Kaseya experienced in 2021. A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. Reconnaissance.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Ransomware has arguably been the most commonly talked about topic in the security world regarding risks to organizations and their data. Backup solutions companies have contributed to this misconception by alluding to keeping your data safe by storing it in the cloud.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

These tasks create a much larger attack surface and a greater risk of a data breach, making PAM an essential tool in securing a network and its assets. The smart session management feature can flag access to the most high-risk systems to help prioritize remediation efforts.

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