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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

Compromised Credentials Compromised identities from phishing, info stealers, keyloggers, and bad password habits provide the entry point for most ransomware attacks and data breaches. 583% increase in Kerberoasting [password hash cracking] attacks. 64% of managers and higher admit to poor password practices.

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A roadmap for developing a secure enterprise cloud operating model

SC Magazine

Embrace cloud-native security tools and services, and the security needs for the new code and application build/delivery model. Enable the capability to perform static and dynamic code scanning and penetration testing using a self-service approach, especially focusing on the vulnerabilities that can really be exploited at runtime.

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How Smart Organizations Mitigate Cyber Risks in a World of Unknown Unknowns

CyberSecurity Insiders

By Shay Siksik, VP Customer Operations and CISO, XM Cyber. Using a strong, unique password is a simple thing, but people consistently fail to do so. Creating a layer of security capable of managing unknown risk requires shedding a purely reactive posture. A penetration test, or a red team exercise, is one way to accomplish this.

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SANS Critical Controls 17, 18 and 19: Data Loss Prevention, Incident Response and Management, Secure Network Engineering

NopSec

In this installment of our SANS 20 Critical Security Controls, I bundled three controls together simply because they are very much procedural in nature. Data Loss Prevention control has recently jumped on most organizations CISOs’ radarscreens because of the whistle-blowing revelations on NSA by Mr. Snowden.

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New SEC Cybersecurity Rules Could Affect Private Companies Too

eSecurity Planet

For example, for a server, the password policy defines the password complexity, length of time before the password needs to be reset, and how many incorrect logins will result in a disabled credential. This can be satisfied through periodic vulnerability scans, penetration tests, and asset-recovery exercises.

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Best Cybersecurity and IT Outsourcing Options

eSecurity Planet

MSPs or managed IT service providers can absorb more of the IT department’s duties, from full outsourcing to focused IT services such as email, network management, cloud migration, or patch management.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Abnormal Security Cloud email security 2019 Private Sqreen Application security 2019 Acquired: Datadog Demisto SOAR 2018 Acquired by PAN Skyhigh Cloud security 2012 Acquired: McAfee OpenDNS Internet security 2009 Acquired: Cisco Palo Alto Networks Cloud and network security 2006 NYSE: PANW.