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Spotlight Podcast: RADICL Is Coming To The Rescue Of Defense SMBs

The Security Ledger

In fact, the term “advanced persistent threat” (or APT) was concocted by U.S. Air Force personnel way back in 2005 as a way to talk about the kinds of enduring cyber attacks and attempts at data exfiltration they were observing. Eighteen years later, the situation hasn’t improved all that much.

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News alert: Massachusetts pumps $1.1 million into state college cybersecurity training programs

The Last Watchdog

Defending our technology against cyber threats is an increasingly important issue, and these grants will allow our cities and towns to train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.” “As As a former mayor, I know that cyber attacks are a constant threat to municipalities.

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Why retailers must adopt a Zero Trust approach during this holiday season

CyberSecurity Insiders

Ensuring that customers stay safe from cyber criminals while completing online transactions is of utmost importance in today’s environment. Each year, more and more small businesses fall victim to cyber criminals, and that number is only expected to rise in the future. Conclusion.

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ContraForce Announces $2M Seed Investment from DataTribe

CyberSecurity Insiders

Because small businesses typically have limited resources to cope with a cyber attack, cyber attacks can represent an existential risk for them. Hackers are increasingly targeting them for ransomware or as an entry point into a supply chain.

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Fact or Fiction? The Truth About Cybersecurity for Small and Mid-Sized Businesses

Security Boulevard

With fewer budget dollars and expert resources dedicated to cybersecurity than their larger counterparts, small and mid-sized organizations often make easier targets, particularly in today’s increasingly complex and connected cloud environment. Fiction: Outsourcing cybersecurity is not a realistic option for SMBs.

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Proactive Intelligence: A Paradigm Shift In Cyber Defense

Security Boulevard

The truth is that we can make a paradigm shift in the way we think about detection, protection, and proactiveness with respect to intelligence and resilience. Early Threat Detection Understanding attacker infrastructure is the key to not just reactive but true, proactive threat intelligence.

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Take The Stress Out of Securing Your Workforce

Jane Frankland

Cyber-attacks have risen from last year with the most common forms of attack being credential theft, phishing, misconfigured cloud, and vulnerabilities in third-party software. How cybersecurity (the market) performed in 2022. How to simplify, maximise returns and work smarter not harder.