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FIRESIDE CHAT: Timely employee training, targeted testing needed to quell non-stop phishing

The Last Watchdog

And this is the fundamental reason phishing persists as a predominant cybercriminal activity. The poll found that security teams are spending one-third of their time handling phishing threats every week. Humans are rather easily duped. Related: How MSSPs help secure business networks. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Menlo Security Finds Cloud Migration and Remote Work Gives Rise to New Era of Malware, Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT)

CyberSecurity Insiders

HEAT attacks are a class of cyber threats targeting web browsers as the attack vector and employs techniques to evade detection by multiple layers in current security stacks including firewalls, Secure Web Gateways, sandbox analysis, URL Reputation, and phishing detection. About Menlo Security.

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RSAC insights: ‘SaaS security posture management’ — SSPM — has emerged as a networking must-have

The Last Watchdog

To accelerate cloud migration, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud guaranteed that the hosted IT infrastructure they sought to rent to enterprises would be security-hardened – at least on their end. Wave after wave of successful exploits took full advantage of the misconfigurations spinning out of cloud migration.

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Cybersecurity Culture: From Onboarding Training to Proactive Practice

SecureWorld News

Phishing is one such concept, as only 53% of employees in 2021 could correctly define it, down from 63% in 2020. Just as a lack of clear strategy is the leading issue with cloud migration, cybersecurity cultures will struggle to thrive without clarity. Avoid ambiguity.

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Author Q&A: Former privacy officer urges leaders to prioritize security as part of cloud migration

The Last Watchdog

A company may have thousands of employees, but it only takes one phished employee for cybercriminals to bring the network to its knees. Sure, you need state-of-the-art cybersecurity technology like firewalls, anti-virus software, and intrusion detection systems to keep cybercriminals on the back foot.

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The State of Cloud and Cloud Security in 2020

SecureWorld News

Not everyone would describe cloud security as "very exciting," however, the four expert panelists who joined us on our series of SecureWorld Remote Sessions for a Q&A hour all certainly shared this sentiment. The panelists spoke on cloud migration, the state of the cloud during the pandemic, the DevOps pipeline, and more.

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Group-IB uncovers PerSwaysion – sophisticated phishing campaign targeting executives worldwide

Security Affairs

Group-IB uncovered a new sophisticated phishing campaign, tracked as PerSwaysion, against high-level executives of more than 150 companies worldwide. . PerSwaysion is a highly-targeted phishing campaign. New round of phishing attempts leveraging current victim’s account usually takes less than 24 hours.