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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

When assessing the overall security of cloud storage and choosing a solution tailored to your business, it helps to determine its features, potential risks, security measures, and other considerations. They cited lower risk, enhanced security, and cost savings as they go through migration.

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The Impact of AI on Social Engineering Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

Social engineering attacks have long been a threat to businesses worldwide, statistically comprising roughly 98% of cyberattacks worldwide. Given the much more psychologically focused and methodical ways that social engineering attacks can be conducted, it makes spotting them hard to do.

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Zero Trust Can’t Protect Everything. Here’s What You Need to Watch.

eSecurity Planet

Zero trust architecture is an emerging technology in cybersecurity that offers an alternative to the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security. By limiting movement, you mitigate the risk of malicious actors accessing key segments.” Moving to zero trust can create cybersecurity gaps.

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October 2023 Patch Tuesday Includes Three Zero-Days Flaws

eSecurity Planet

Ivanti vice president of security products Chris Goettl noted that while the CVSS score is a relatively low 6.5, “proof-of-concept code has been disclosed and there are exploits detected in the wild. This CVE should be treated as a higher severity than Important due to the risk of exploit.”

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Spear Phishing Prevention: 10 Ways to Protect Your Organization

eSecurity Planet

This method involves using emails, social media, instant messaging, and other platforms to manipulate users into revealing personal information or performing actions that can lead to network compromise, data loss, or financial harm. The likelihood that the target will respond to a message is increased by this personalization.

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Why Businesses Can’t Afford Anything Less Than Zero Trust in IoT

Security Boulevard

A snapshot of those concerns reveal: Nearly half of CIOs see breaches as their biggest organizational risk. 39% see malware and ransomware as their biggest risk. 68% of IT and security professionals plan to use zero trust for device security; 42% actually do. 27% say resilience is a top three priority.

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How to Write a Pentesting Report – With Checklist

eSecurity Planet

A pentest report should also outline the vulnerability scans and simulated cybersecurity attacks the pentester used to probe for weaknesses in an organization’s overall security stack or specific systems, such as websites, applications, networks, and cloud infrastructure.