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GUEST ESSAY: Top cybersecurity developments that can be expected to fully play out in 2019

The Last Watchdog

From a certain perspective, 2018 hasn’t been as dramatic a cybersecurity year as 2017, in that we haven’t seen as many global pandemics like WannaCry. Still, Ransomware, zero-day exploits, and phishing attacks, were among the biggest threats facing IT security teams this year. IoT security issues will increase.

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IaaS Security: Top 8 Issues & Prevention Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Infrastructure as a service security is a concept that assures the safety of organizations’ data, applications, and networks in the cloud. Understanding the risks, advantages, and best practices connected with IaaS security is becoming increasingly important as enterprises shift their infrastructure to the cloud.

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Implementing and Maintaining Security Program Metrics

NopSec

Cybersecurity metrics are a pertinent part of measuring the successes and failures of your program and the effectiveness of your business outcomes. With so much invested in cybersecurity teams and infrastructure, demonstrating progress and ROI is very difficult – but is absolutely necessary! Foundation: Stakeholder support.

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What Is Cloud Security Management? Types & Strategies

eSecurity Planet

Next, the IT team sets up access controls and data encryption methods, followed by network security configuration and cloud activities monitoring. Then, the IT team develops and applies incident response plans, while the manager maintains compliance.

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11 Key Steps of the Patch Management Process

eSecurity Planet

Installing these patches and updates keeps your software and firmware secure, reliable, and up to date with the latest improvements. This step-by-step guide to the patch management process can help you stay ahead of vulnerabilities and reduce cyber risk. Thorough testing reduces the risk of interrupting the production environment.

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Patch Management Policy: Steps, Benefits and a Free Template

eSecurity Planet

Any rule that does not meet compliance requirements should be adjusted to comply with requirements. However, they might find that their state’s cybersecurity requirements require monthly patching and will therefore need to change their patching frequency to monthly to comply. Overview : sets expectations and goals for the policy.

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What Is an Application Level Gateway? How ALGs Work

eSecurity Planet

An application gateway, also known as an application level gateway (ALG), functions as a critical firewall proxy for network security. Its filtering capability ensures that only certain network application data is transmitted, which has an impact on the security of protocols including FTP, Telnet, RTSP, and BitTorrent.

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