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Stories from the SOC: Fighting back against credential harvesting with ProofPoint

CyberSecurity Insiders

Executive summary Credential harvesting is a technique that hackers use to gain unauthorized access to legitimate credentials using a variety of strategies, tactics, and techniques such as phishing and DNS poisoning. However, ProofPoint effectively rewrote the URL to prevent some of the potential threats. of cases in 2020.

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IDS & IPS Remain Important Even as Other Tools Add IDPS Features

eSecurity Planet

Intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS) technologies – often combined as intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS) – have been in use for decades, yet they remain important cybersecurity tools even in the face of today’s rapidly changing cyber threats and complex IT environments.

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5 Best Bot Protection Solutions and Software for 2023

eSecurity Planet

Malicious bots can be used to carry out a range of cyber threats like account takeovers and DDoS attacks, so bot protection is an increasingly important defense for web-facing assets. The company also offers a range of additional cybersecurity solutions, including DDoS protection, web application firewalls, and DNS services.

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

Key skills acquired include managing and encrypting a zero-trust environment, deploying VPNs and SSL/SSH encryption, analyzing firewall logs and configuring security controls, and mitigating vulnerabilities using packet capture and analysis. I don’t know that anyone has been hired for this certification, but, as I said, it’s a great start.”

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The Case for Multi-Vendor Security Integrations

Cisco Security

It also enhances the threat response capabilities of USM Anywhere by providing orchestration and response actions to isolate or un-isolate hosts based on risks identified in USM Anywhere. In addition, it allows you to collect hourly events from Cisco Secure Endpoint through the USM Anywhere Job Scheduler. Read more here. Sumo Logic.

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Best Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection Tools

eSecurity Planet

In addition, most DDoS mitigation solution providers bundle Web Application Firewall functionality to prevent DDoS attacks at the application layer. It combines mitigation with Akamai’s security operations centers to stop attacks across all ports and protocols before they become business-impacting events. Fast and simple on-boarding.

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An MSP and SMB guide to disaster preparation, recovery and remediation

Webroot

Key steps and solutions should be followed to prepare and respond to cyber threats or attacks against your organization. It’s also essential to ensure end-users are trained on ransomware threats as a part of a good security awareness training program. The laptops have antivirus protection, but no DNS protection.

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