eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Fifteen years after the launch of the microblogging social media platform, Twitter remains a dominant public forum for instant communication with individuals and organizations worldwide on a universe of topics, including #cybersecurity. Top Cybersecurity Experts to Follow on Twitter. Binni Shah | @binitamshah. Eva Galperi n | @evacide.

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Security Through Education

OCTOBER 27, 2021

That is why, for this October’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month , we encourage you to Do Your Part #BeCyberSmart! Cybersecurity First at Work. Owning your role in cybersecurity can seem cumbersome when approached by someone outside the security industry. Don’t make passwords easy to guess. Cybersecurity First at Home.

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CSO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Cyberespionage groups are exploiting a critical vulnerability patched earlier this month in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus, a self-service password management and single sign-on (SSO) solution for Active Directory environments. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]. Sign up for CSO newsletters. ].

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Millennials and Gen Z employees in the US are much less likely to prioritize or adhere to cybersecurity protocols than their older Gen X and Baby Boomer counterparts, according to a recent survey by EY Consulting. To read this article in full, please click here

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

” Also read: Cybersecurity Employment in 2022: Solving the Skills Gap. My advice for anybody that asks me which certifications they should get is this: find a certification in a subject that you wish to learn about,” Palo Alto Networks CSO Rick Howard said. “If Also read: How to Get Started in a Cybersecurity Career.

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The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

SAP CSO Justin Somaini. October is Cybersecurity awareness month. For consumers, that means boning up on account security – maybe getting a password manager. Somaini has the distinction of being the first CSO at Yahoo and also at Symantec.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

They had super weak, easily guessable passwords, which was visible to anyone who looked. What are the most important cybersecurity risks for 2021? The “people problem” is a phrase I heard in many different occasions when I met with IT managers (CISO, CSO, CIOs), many in leading research labs, national security establishments, and such.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2022

2] There are 921 password attacks every second — almost double what we saw a year ago. And yet, the CDC reports that only 10% of American adults eat enough veggies — even though they likely know they should. [1] 1] Companies are the same when it comes to security. Cybercrime is predicted to cost the world $10.5

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The Security Ledger

JULY 11, 2021

Poor cyber literacy is at the root of many of the cybersecurity problems plaguing the U.S. economy, according to Dr. Alissa Abdullah, Deputy CSO at MasterCard. The post At Pride Summit: A Warning On Cyber Literacy appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 16, 2022

By Amanda Fennell, CSO and CIO, Relativity. While exploring phishing examples and best tools to manage passwords, offer to dive into how tools actually work. With cybersecurity, notions of privacy can be understood with different nuances in different cultures. Think about password management. About Amanda Fennell.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

October is coming to a close and so is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. As a result, the Biden Administration has made cybersecurity a top priority. Just this May, President Biden signed a sweeping executive order (EO) outlining several cybersecurity measures and requirements intended to harden the U.S.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2023

On November 30, 2022, password manager LastPass informed customers of a cybersecurity incident following unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service. While LastPass claims that users’ passwords remain safely encrypted, it admitted that certain elements of customers’ information have been exposed.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Many of the most prominent cybersecurity incidents have resulted from attackers using stolen credentials (username and password) to gain access to networks. for days, began with attackers using a stolen password to gain access to a legacy VPN system. That was underscored by a recent joint alert from the U.S.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Password management company LastPass, which was hit by two data breaches last year , has revealed that data exfiltrated during the first intrusion, discovered in August, was used to target the personal home computer of one of its devops engineers and launch a second successful cyberatttack, detected in November.

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CSO Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

You can be a superstar, build a world-class cybersecurity program, and follow best practices, providing exceptional protection for the organization. Despite this excellence, a single employee can click on a malicious web link, share a password, or misconfigure an asset, leading directly to a successful cyberattack.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Employees are often warned about the data exposure risks associated with the likes of phishing emails, credential theft, and using weak passwords. However, they can risk leaking or exposing sensitive information about themselves, the work they do, or their organization without even realizing.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 13, 2021

You’ll get an overview of the tools required, the processes you need to put in place, and the impact you can achieve by making zero trust a core piece of your cybersecurity strategy. Moderating this panel is Timothy Wilson, Editor in Chief and co-founder of Dark Reading.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 10, 2021

He also says that it is very important to note that this issue was not the result of compromised account passwords, SSH keys, or personal access tokens (PATs). GitHub CSO Mike Hanley takes security seriously. Mike Hanley was hired as GitHub's new CSO in February 2021.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

The update is in response to the evolving cybersecurity challenges that organisations now face and represents the most significant overhaul of the scheme’s technical controls since it was launched in 2014. Technical controls update reflects modern cybersecurity landscape.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

According to Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) September 2022 Threat Horizons Report , threat actors frequently targeted weak and default passwords to access Google Cloud accounts. SCC Premium works with a pay-as-you-go pricing , and as one-year and multi-year fixed-price subscriptions.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

“The most significant risk for enterprises isn’t the speed at which they are applying critical patches; it comes from not applying the patches on every asset,” noted Brian Contos, CSO of Sevco Security. The simple fact is that most organizations fail to maintain an up-to-date and accurate IT asset inventory.”

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 19, 2023

The malware deployed on compromised routers patches the router’s authentication mechanism to always accept any password for any local user. “In

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Managing machine identities has never been more critical to an enterprise’s cybersecurity. Machine identities now outnumber humans in enterprises, according to Nathanael Coffing, co-founder and CSO of Cloudentity. Coffing suggests that cybersecurity teams embrace automation to cover these gaps.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 19, 2020

When David Sherry became Chief Information Security Officer at Princeton University, he says cybersecurity was done well. "I How do you assess your current cybersecurity culture? We follow the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, but we also needed a way to depict to members of the Princeton community what we actually do. Sherry said.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

Most companies now recognize the serious and insidious nature of cybersecurity threats. But many fail to grasp that the digital transformation, remote work, automation, and cloud migration activities of the last few years have turbocharged the number of identities seeking access to data and critical business systems.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

By Steve Faehl, Microsoft Federal Security CTO Ask any cybersecurity professional what one thing should be done to increase the security of your environment and the most likely answer will be to “enable MFA.” For many years, multi-factor authentication has been a key approach to mitigating the risks associated with password usage.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 31, 2022

Texas-based cybersecurity vendor Praetorian has launched a new machine learning-based secrets scanner, called Nosey Parker, onto its Chariot Platform, which provides attack surface management and offensive security managed services. To read this article in full, please click here

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Sean Atkinson, Chief Information Security Officer : “A huge threat in cybersecurity is the misconfiguration of cloud infrastructure. Not adhering to basic cybersecurity practices like strong passwords, setting permission levels for access, etc., It is scary that some think it is set-it-and-forget-it.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

Hackers have begun to attack internet-connected universal power supply devices, targeting their control interfaces via multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities and, in some cases, unchanged default usernames and passwords, according to an advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued on Tuesday.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

According to researchers with the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC), the flaws allow a user with low privileges to access sensitive data that can be used to perform a password reset for a higher privileged account, such as the administrator.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

Phishing attacks are the most common source of cybersecurity breaches in business today, and employee credentials are a top target for these malicious actors. A correct user name and password combination is often all that stands between a cybercriminal and a company’s valuable intellectual property.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 22, 2021

Patching for these issues is so urgent that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a deadline for federal agencies to complete patches by the end of the week. Have you patched the known vulnerabilities discovered in Pulse Secure's Connect Secure products? What is Pulse Secure saying about product vulnerabilities?

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SC Magazine

JUNE 11, 2021

For instance, furing Congressional testimony following the supply chain attack on SolarWinds’ IT management platform Orion, the company’s CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna blamed an intern for creating a weak FTP server password and leaking it on GitHub. To borrow from the U.S.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In this article we will learn how to address and effectively respond to major enterprise cybersecurity threats and provide tips to mitigate IT security risk. The key enterprise cyber security risk management process Maintain increased cybersecurity awareness of major types of threats.

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