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How to Prevent Malware: 15 Best Practices for Malware Prevention

eSecurity Planet

About 90% of cyber attacks begin with a phishing email, text or malicious link, so training users not to click on anything they’re not sure about could have the highest return on investment (ROI) of any prevention technique — if those training efforts are successful and reinforced. This will help improve your data privacy too.

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What Is Cloud Security? Everything You Need to Know

eSecurity Planet

Traffic Monitoring and Analysis: Continuous monitoring of network traffic helps detect anomalies and potential security incidents. Data security Encryption: Data encryption ensures that even if unauthorized parties gain access to data, they cannot understand or use it without the proper decryption keys.

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How to Secure the 5 Cloud Environment Types

eSecurity Planet

Data Breaches How they occur: Unauthorized access to sensitive data can happen as a result of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations such as flawed access permissions or unprotected data and instances. Set Access Rules: To limit data and resource access, enforce stringent authentication, role-based access rules, and permissions.

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What Is Hybrid Cloud Security? How it Works & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Hybrid cloud security generally follows best practices for network security and cloud security : Network segmentation decreases attack surfaces. Encryption protects data both in transit and at rest. Continuous security monitoring identifies and responds to threats in real time.

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7 Best Email Security Software & Tools in 2023

eSecurity Planet

Conducts phishing simulation exercises and offers training to educate staff on email security best practices, lowering the chance of becoming a victim of phishing attempts. Encrypts critical email exchanges to protect the security of information during transmission. Effective data loss prevention capabilities.

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How security professionals will rise to the challenge of cyber defense in 2022

CyberSecurity Insiders

Have hope that through the hard work and brilliant minds behind these security defenses that 2022 will not be a repeat of such high level attacks. Learn more about what security leaders have to say about the upcoming year below: Neil Jones, cybersecurity evangelist, Egnyte. Cybersecurity needs to begin in the C-suite.