CSO Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

Most companies now recognize the serious and insidious nature of cybersecurity threats. But many fail to grasp that the digital transformation, remote work, automation, and cloud migration activities of the last few years have turbocharged the number of identities seeking access to data and critical business systems.

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Herjavec Group

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In this piece, Robert discusses Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM) and his message to his fellow business leaders as a champion of the global initiative. This National Cybersecurity Awareness Mo­­nth, what message do you have for fellow business leaders? Should the everyday individual be concerned with the topic of cybersecurity?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

The cybersecurity needs of small- and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) differ from those of large enterprises, but few solutions cater to them. A 2018 Cisco Cybersecurity Special Report found that 54 % of all cyber attacks cost the target company more than $0.5 Productivity is also a concern, with multiple tools requiring passwords.

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Herjavec Group

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Enterprises have experienced lightning-fast digital transformation over the past 18 months. As cyber breaches and ransomware attacks skyrocket, businesses now have no choice but to face the truth — cybersecurity is no longer an option. Here are 5 outdated, but common cybersecurity practices your enterprise should avoid.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 1, 2021

SALT LAKE CITY–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Venafi , the inventor and leading provider of machine identity management, today announced that the company’s Trust Protection Platform won the “Identity Management Platform of the Year” award in the 2021 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards. To learn more about Venafi, visit www.venafi.com.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 31, 2022

Advanced VM tools and practices are rapidly emerging to help companies mitigate a sprawling array of security flaws spinning out of digital transformation. Digital transformation has spawned a cascade of nuanced, abstract vulnerabilities – and they’re everywhere. That’s changing — dramatically.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

First, a Quick Overview on Retail and Cybersecurity Retail has two main types of workers — people with boots on the ground in a store who have to connect to a device that may be managed, unmanaged or shared, and people who work for the corporate or online side of the business. Data breach costs rose from $3.86 million to $4.24 million to $4.24

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Hot for Security

MAY 25, 2021

They have slowly turned into an extension of ourselves, encompassing large volumes of information that in the end make up our real-life and digital selves. When remote work and online classes became a thing, the world started focusing on cybersecurity.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Positive Technologies found 88 new IAB sales on dark web marketplaces in the first quarter of 2020, compared to just three in all of 2017. The rise of IABs corresponds with the increase in digital transformation. This uptick in IAB activity has several far-reaching impacts on cybersecurity.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Needless to say, in 2021 cybersecurity was front and center for individuals, enterprises, and governments alike. Data breaches and cybersecurity threats were at an all-time high this past year. So let’s take a look at the big challenges, priorities, and trends we saw in cybersecurity over the past year.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2021

As digital transformation kicks into high gear, it’s certainly not getting any easier to operate IT systems securely, especially for small- and medium-sized businesses. This could be because of confusing cybersecurity marketing messages, Côté says. Related: Business-logic attacks target commercial websites.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Microsoft cloud email server was missing a password. 3TB Email FAIL: Personal info of tens of thousands leaks. The post DoD Email Breach: Pentagon Tells Victims 12 Months Late appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 24, 2022

And studies have revealed that the newly developed file-encrypting malware is using an Open-source password management library for encryption and is having capabilities of remaining anonymous, ex-filtrate data, and having abilities to give control to remote servers. The third is something astonishing to read!

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 23, 2021

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. Leading-edge cybersecurity systems in service today apply machine learning in some amazing ways to help large enterprises identify and instantly respond to cyber threats.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Among the exposed data were personal backups of Microsoft employees' computers, passwords for Microsoft services, secret keys, and more than 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages from hundreds of employees. Follow SecureWorld News for more stories related to cybersecurity.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Companies that choose to go through digital transformation use DevOps as their platform to deliver software at speed and scale. The only items that change between environments are the variables and secrets (passwords, certificates, keys) used by the software to customize the deployment for that particular environment.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

Cybersecurity attacks are on the rise, especially since the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Companies and executives must understand the ever-changing cybersecurity threat landscape in a high-risk digital environment. One common type of cybersecurity issue organizations face is ransomware. Use cybersecurity best practices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

APIs, short for application programming interfaces, have become a common building block for digitally enabled organizations. They facilitate communication as well as critical business operations, and they also support important digital transformations. Crafting an API security strategy is a complex task. Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A continued shift to remote working highlighted the importance of security in an era of digital transformation, and hopefully, business leaders have taken onboard the critical need for effective online protection, particularly where email security is concerned. 2) Create strong passwords. 3) Attend email awareness training.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

However, as technology has become more complex and pervasive, the CIO's role has expanded to encompass a broader range of responsibilities, including: Strategic IT leadership: CIOs are now expected to be strategic leaders, driving the organization's digital transformation agenda and aligning IT initiatives with business goals.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The digitally transformed systems that billions of people rely upon to live their everyday lives depend on Venafi. From the vantage point of visionary, innovator, category creator and leader we are seeing a new level of complexity in managing machine identities resulting from the digital modernization that is occurring.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We’re approaching the end of Cyber Security Awareness Month , an annual event dedicated to increasing awareness of cybersecurity topics globally. The proliferation of digital has seen us move from bricks and mortar stores and banks to online services. Data breaches damage trust. Professor Carsten Maple, University of Warwick.

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybersecurity is a serious concern for every organisation today. Instead of relying on vulnerable username and password authentication methods, more.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The attackers have a vast, pliable attack surface to bombard: essentially all of the externally-facing web apps, mobile apps and API services that organizations are increasingly embracing, in order to stay in step with digital transformation. Cybersecurity vendors, of course, have been responding.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 23, 2024

This convergence of consumer and business concerns underscores the imperative for organizations to embrace technology strategically and address and mitigate the perceived risks associated with the digital realm. Companies that leverage digital tools to rethink traditional approaches can reshape entire markets and create new paradigms.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 20, 2018

There’s a temptation to dismiss it as a mere nuisance; companies deep into ‘digital transformation,’ in particular, might be lulled into this sort of apathy. We live in an era of breaches and every breach usually results in data leaks, including a lot of logons and passwords. This is called credential stuffing.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The acceleration of digital transformation has also left companies with less transparency and fewer relevant security insights as the implementation of multiple new services and systems led to widespread fragmentation. Managed cybersecurity solutions are a great asset for organizations that lack IT security professionals.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

Silverfort has introduced new technology that is designed to help corporations address unprecedented authentication exposures spinning out of ‘digital transformation.’. This is what digital transformation is all about. It has become easy to get user credentials and use them to access the network.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 12, 2022

Identity Management Day 2022 , sponsored by Identity Defined Security Alliance and National Cybersecurity Alliance, is a reminder to make identity management and digital identity security a priority. Identity-related breaches are making headlines almost every day, leading to expensive costs and reputational damage.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

Wireless networks are often neglected by security teams and managers who set poor passwords and permissions. Penetration testers will try to brute force passwords and prey on misconfigurations. See the Best Cloud, Container and Data Lake Vulnerability Scanning Tools 7.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2022

The results were announced today at the Black Hat USA 2022 cybersecurity conference. The team continued the discovery process and identified the password policies in place, along with local user accounts on the machine, before losing the RDP session due to blue team countermeasures. See the Best Zero Trust Security Solutions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

This year is expected to see similarly high numbers which is paralleled by increasing retailer anxiety about the state of their cybersecurity. Typically, something you know (such as a password) and something you have (such as code that’s been texted to you.) Almost 1 million visited physical stores.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

With this in mind, the research’s finding that 76% of business executives rate their organization’s IT strategy as excellent or good at protecting against cybersecurity threats seems like positive news.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 16, 2023

These secrets control data access when transferred between applications—sending information from a webpage, making a secure request to an API, accessing a cloud database, or countless other cases that modern enterprises encounter while pursuing digital transformation and increasing automation.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 18, 2021

Without trust in their customers and citizens, organisations and governments won’t be able to pursue the digital transformations that they need to level up the services they provide. The post What is Digital Identity, and why is it important? appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. Turns out it was possible for a threat actor to flood GLIBC with data , take control of it, and then use it as a launch point for stealing passwords, spying on users and attempting to usurp control of other computers. Instead, memory attacks are transient.

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