The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here is Erin’s Q&A column, which originally went live on OneRep’s well-done blog.) For the first expert interview on our blog, we welcomed Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter Byron V. How can companies minimize risks? Regular training and simulations can help reduce risks associated with human errors.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 25, 2024

However, vulnerabilities in OAuth implementations can create significant security risks. Salt Security is enhancing its API protection platform with a comprehensive suite of new OAuth threat detections and posture rules to address this growing challenge. The blog above provides specific details of these security flaws.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2024

The careless employee places the information on that stick at considerable risk of theft or even outright loss. Only by seeing what’s on your network, both right now and from the recent past, can you detect and respond to real-time incidents in the fastest and most comprehensive way.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Well, the US government is. Checkout Binding Operational Directive 22-01 published on November 3 rd which compels all federal agencies to remediate known exploited vulnerabilities in two weeks or sooner “ in the case of grave risk to the Federal Enterprise”. If the US government can do it, you can too! FireEye Blog.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 1, 2024

” They contend that large-scale AI projects can “pose profound risks to society and humanity” without oversight and thoughtful management. Their appeal includes a call for a temporary pause on further AI development and an insistence on creating governance systems and regulatory authorities dedicated to AI.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

CISA Director Jen Easterly said in a statement over the weekend that the agency has created a Joint Cyber Defense Collaboration senior leadership group to coordinate actions within the government – including the FBI and National Security Agency (NSA) – and private sector to manage the risk. How the Log4j exploit works.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

SIEMs are used for collecting and analyzing security data from across your organization to help you identify and respond to threats quickly and effectively. But if you’re still using an outdated SIEM, you’re putting your organization at risk [A.C. — are That’s where this blog comes in. are we a bit harsh here? Frankly no!

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Duo's Security Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

MFA has been recommended, or required, by governments and has grown in popularity as a measure to quickly add a layer of security, especially if credentials are compromised as part of a phishing attack. The Universal Prompt unlocks important security measures that Duo is releasing to strengthen organizations against the new threat landscape.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 11, 2023

DORA sets clear standards, norms, and guidelines to guide financial organizations in managing IT and cyber risks. It is the keystone in ensuring that these institutions maintain a robust risk management framework within their digital infrastructure. Increase funding for threat detection and enhance cybersecurity awareness training.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Another pressing issue that retailers of all sizes need to address before the peak of the holiday season is the risk of facing a cybersecurity crisis. More technology being used to increase operational efficiency means retailers face a higher risk of cyber incidents.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 16, 2024

However, the evolving threat landscape necessitates a shift toward more comprehensive data loss prevention methods considering data in various states—whether at rest, in motion, or in use. Regular assessments and adjustments based on emerging threat landscapes contribute to the longevity of the DLP framework.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Today, many organizations look at information security and governance as a baker would icing on a cake. Once you identify your current state you will have a clearer picture of what risks you face and what their priority should be. Risk assessment. Risk Assessment. Introduction. Business impact analysis.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This blog series was written jointly with Amine Besson, Principal Cyber Engineer, Behemoth CyberDefence and one more anonymous collaborator. In this blog (#3 in the series), we will start to define and refine our detection engineering machinery to avoid the problems covered in Parts 1 and 2. Stay tuned!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. With digital twins, you can identify infrastructure as it’s being developed, which will allow you to identify and minimize risk exposures. When any infrastructure modifications are needed, you can foresee and better control threats before installing the update.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

In a blog post on Monday, researchers from Trend Micro reported that they uncovered 70 email addresses that have been targeted with the so-called “Office 365 V4 phishing kit” since May 2020, 40 of which belong to “CEOs, directors, owners and founders, among other enterprise employee[s].”.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 12, 2022

In this blog, we’ll look at the root causes of concern for today's CISO and share some practical strategies to deter cybercriminals. Application defects require priority alignment with development teams, and protection tools must comply with customer experience (CX) and governance requirements. What about risk management?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Category Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Third Party Risk Risk Level In the interconnected web of modern business ecosystems, supply chain risks have emerged as insidious threats, leaving even the most vigilant organizations vulnerable to devastating cyber breaches. Why does it seem like supply chain attacks are increasing?

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In the October 2021 Threat Report , McAfee Enterprise ATR provides a global view of the top threats, especially those ransomware attacks that affected most countries and sectors in Q2 2021, especially in the Public Sector (Government). Other Recent Threats Affecting the Public Sector.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 28, 2023

What is the cost and risk of keeping these problems unsolved? However, in this blog I am exploring why a particular toolset — SIEM — has a place in today’s security arsenal so I am being inherently tool-centric, not problem-centric.) What are other ways of solving these same problems in 2023?

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McAfee

OCTOBER 25, 2021

You can apply predictive analytics to leverage in-depth threat intelligence sources to produce real-time, automated assessments of your security posture risks from device to cloud. Proactive Threat Hunting. It helps SPW’s security team to prioritize which threats and campaigns are most likely to target them. View Now. [1]

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

According to an Analysis Report (AR20-268A) from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), this new normal work environment has put federal agencies at risk of falling victim to cyber-attacks that exploit their use of Microsoft Office 365 (O365) and misuse their VPN remote access services.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Including the continued challenges of protecting critical infrastructure, the supply chain, and the ever-present task of finding qualified cybersecurity workers to fill scores of vacant roles in corporations and government that I forecasted still issues for the coming year.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In order to combat problems, cyber threat intelligence even goes beyond the knowledge that threats exist – it’s also understanding the motivations of cyber criminals and how they access systems and information. This is not to be confused with GDPR , which governs general data protection. Incident response reports.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Today, it mainly revolves around replacing humans with machines in mechanical, electrical, or computerized processes, where preprogrammed commands govern task execution with minimal human intervention. Network security automation can streamline threat detection, policy enforcement, access control, and compliance management tasks.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Category Cybersecurity Fundamentals, Third Party Risk Risk Level In the interconnected web of modern business ecosystems, supply chain risks have emerged as insidious threats, leaving even the most vigilant organizations vulnerable to devastating cyber breaches. Why does it seem like supply chain attacks are increasing?

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Phil’s 8 megatrends blog reminds us about this by calling one of his cloud megatrends “Simplicity: Cloud as an abstraction machine.” Think well-implemented zero trust , that helps users, simplifies IT and reduces risk. We can add: also for security and threat “detectability” and “investigability” (can we just say observability ?).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. While the growing use of technology has seemingly increased convenience and efficiency, it also results in increased security risks. In recent years the outbreak and spread of COVID-19 have left many people with fears and questions.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

Threat intelligence feeds are continually updated streams of data that inform users of different cybersecurity threats, their sources, and any infrastructure impacted or at risk of being impacted by those threats. The massive, crowdsourced approach OTX takes limits the possibility of effective quality assurance.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 18, 2022

And what is more concerning is how the SaaS service layer can create systemic cloud risk, because of the unmatched privilege to control business and information systems via SaaS services. While IaaS protection and security is basic to overall cloud security, the inherent risk of SaaS left unguarded cannot be ignored.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This blog was written by a guest blogger. The threat landscape has increased at a frightening speed. We've moved beyond merely dealing with basic threats to countering highly advanced and persistent attacks. Why do so many organizations put themselves and their customers at risk by neglecting longstanding and known flaws?

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Together, it is a complete package that any Threat Defense/IR team likes to have with them. Apparently, ATT&CK has received an overwhelming response from the community and in fact, every SIEM or Threat detection vendor out there in the market has started aligning their products to MITRE’s ATT&CK.

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McAfee

APRIL 7, 2020

While its meaning varies for each stakeholder, the public sector – smart government – is evolving toward a unified architecture that encourages integration, agile innovation, and information sharing across platforms and Agencies. Threat Detection. Risk Management. Asset Discovery and Tracking.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 1, 2024

Exabeam Fusion Next-generation SIEM Exabeam Fusion uses behavior-based threat detection, investigation, and response in the cloud. It also finds risks other products miss. This increases detection and response time for all warnings, including “noisy” systems with high alerts.

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Cisco Security

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In our last blog , we gave a rundown of what the Telecommunications (Security) Act (TSA) is, why it’s been introduced, who it affects, when it starts, and how firms can prepare. As well as helping to mitigate the significant cyber risks presented to the telecoms industry, a zero-trust strategy provides many business benefits.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

Cyber threats are 300 times as likely to target the broader financial services industry as. The post Redefining Cyber Defenses for Financial Institutions appeared first on Gurucul. The post Redefining Cyber Defenses for Financial Institutions appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

government is in a race to modernize its IT infrastructure to support ever more complicated missions, growing workloads and increasingly distributed teams—and do so facing a constantly evolving threat landscape. government. Multi-Cloud Environment Challenges for Government Agencies. Today’s U.S. FedRAMP Marketplace.

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McAfee

APRIL 20, 2020

The cyber threat landscape is evolving at an astronomical rate; we are living in the age where the four key pillars of cybersecurity – Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability and Assurance of Information systems are no longer considered a nice to have but are a metric for business resilience and operational existence of businesses across the globe.

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