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Seeds of Destruction: Cyber Risk Is Growing in Agriculture

The Security Ledger

In this episode of the podcast (#213): Molly Jahn of DARPA and University of Wisconsin joins us to talk about the growing cyber risk to the Food and Agriculture sector, as industry consolidation and precision agriculture combine to increase the chances of cyber disruption of food production. Read the whole entry. »

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RSAC insights: How ‘TPRM’ can help shrink security skills gap — while protecting supply chains

The Last Watchdog

Digital transformation had taken hold; so their timing was pitch perfect. Cyber risks profiling. CyberGRX’s global cyber risk Exchange caught on quickly. The exchange has proven to be a perfect mechanism for fleshing out much richer cyber risk profiles of third-party vendors.

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NEW TECH: Devolutions’ ‘PAM’ solution helps SMBs deal with rising authentication risks

The Last Watchdog

A 2018 Cisco Cybersecurity Special Report found that 54 % of all cyber attacks cost the target company more than $0.5 However, smaller companies rarely have the IT talent, tools, or budget to prevent such attacks. However, smaller companies rarely have the IT talent, tools, or budget to prevent such attacks.

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MY TAKE: Why companies had better start taking the security pitfalls of API proliferation seriously

The Last Watchdog

That said, APIs are certain to get a lot more attention by security teams — and board members concerned about cyber risk mitigation — in 2022. APIs have emerged as a go-to tool used by threat actors in the early phases of sophisticated, multi-stage network attacks. based supplier of networking technology.

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MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

The Last Watchdog

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. Somehow SMBs must keep pace competitively, while also tamping down the rising risk of suffering a catastrophic network breach.

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RSAC insights: Sophos report dissects how improved tools, tactics stop ransomware attack

The Last Watchdog

True enough, cyber attacks are steadily becoming more sophisticated across the board and the attack surface continues to expand as digital transformation accelerates. At the same time, more organizations are taking cyber risk mitigation as seriously as they should. Incremental gains are being made.

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9 Best Secure Web Gateway Vendors for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Secure web gateway (SWG) solutions help keep enterprise networks from falling victim to ransomware , malware , and other threats carried by internet traffic and malicious websites. Secure web gateways, then, provide fast, secure access to the Internet and SaaS, making digital business a safe and productive experience.