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News alert: AppDirect poll reveals company leaders losing sleep over cyber risks, compliance

The Last Watchdog

In fact, all of their other concerns—malware, stolen data, phishing, ransomware and misconfiguration of cloud services—include an element of human error and/or malice. The study also found that 49% of IT business leaders count human error, including those by employees, among their top security concerns.

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How Your Company Can Prevent a Cyberattack

Adam Levin

Among other things, this slowness means fewer clicked links in phishing emails. By now, we should expect to be seeing puppet shows on the dangers of phishing. It is creating a culture of cyber threat awareness and best practices. They may offer continuous training programs to help thwart phishing attacks and malware infections.

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What Is a SaaS Security Checklist? Tips & Free Template

eSecurity Planet

This includes protecting diverse technological assets, such as software, hardware, devices, and cloud resources, from potential security flaws like malware, ransomware, theft, phishing assaults, and bots. Internal actors also play a substantial role in cybersecurity breaches. Teach them how to verify the sender’s address and URL.

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Establishing Security Maturity Through CIS Cyber Defense Framework

McAfee

Metrics – Any security effort needs to provide clear quantitative and qualitative benefits that allows for Business Owners to understand a business’s cyber risk profile and establishing clear needs and wants. The CSA allows you to map your cloud security maturity journey with guided recommendations.