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GUEST ESSAY: Essential cyber hygiene practices all charities must embrace to protect their donors

The Last Watchdog

Nonprofits can bolster their network security by insisting on strong login credentials. In a 2023 survey, 30% of CISOs named insider threats one of the biggest cybersecurity threats for the year. Social engineering: These attacks exploit human error to gain unauthorized access to organizational systems.

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A Reactive Cybersecurity Strategy Is No Strategy at All

CyberSecurity Insiders

A foundational approach to cybersecurity empowers CISOs to see abnormalities and block threats before they do damage. By increasing visibility into DNS traffic, CISOs can detect, block, and respond to incidents more quickly as well as use this data to institute new controls and increase overall resiliency.

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Red Team vs Blue Team vs Purple Team: Differences Explained

eSecurity Planet

Blue team members might be led by a chief information security officer (CISO) or director of security operations, making this team the largest among the three. Blue teams consist of security analysts, network engineers and system administrators.

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‘The people’ of cybersecurity are its greatest strength and weakness

SC Magazine

Zero-day threats, phishing and social engineering attacks with associated ransomware are among the most persistent threats today’s CISOs and security teams face. For more information on how you can partner with CRA Business Intelligence, please contact Dave Kaye, Chief Revenue Officer.

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Sisense Hacked: CISA Warns Customers at Risk

Security Boulevard

The post Sisense Hacked: CISA Warns Customers at Risk appeared first on Security Boulevard. A hard-coded credential catastrophe: The analytics firm kept big companies’ secrets in an insecure AWS bucket. Government says victims include the “critical infrastructure sector.”

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Reducing Human Error Security Threats with a Remote Workforce

Security Boulevard

The Cybersecurity Cost of Human Error While many security executives agree that ransomware poses the greatest threat to security infrastructure, a majority believes that human error is the greatest risk to their business operations. These five strategies can help you reduce human error security threats: 1.

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7 Cyber Security Courses Online For Everybody

Spinone

This course covers a broad range of security topics, explaining it with a simple language. Here are only seven out of 26 topics: Insider threats Passwords Security of mobile devices Social engineering Viruses Email security Human error To start the course, you need to register and choose the type of account you need.