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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

Phishing scams, malware, ransomware and data breaches are just some of the examples of cyberthreats that can devastate business operations and the protection of consumer information. Here are five notable historical events that influenced cybersecurity assessment and transformed it into what it is today: The Battle of Midway (1942).

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Importance of having a Threat Intelligence Platform

CyberSecurity Insiders

However, as manual track down of threats is impossible, due to sheer volumes of data, analysts use an automated form of software that assists them in collecting, analyzing and sharing information with the teams to ensure identity and prevention of harm from attacks.

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Learnings from 2022 Breaches: Reassessing Access Controls and Data Security Strategies

CyberSecurity Insiders

An Ever-Evolving Answer The cost of data breaches will increase over the next year since the data access control space is still in its early stages and relies mostly on older techniques such as role-based controls and system account usage.

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Applying Heuristics in Cybersecurity

Approachable Cyber Threats

Data analysts aren’t immune to the ill effects of the recognition heuristic either. Availability bias can impact data analysis just as much as the alternative informal mental meanderings that we use most of the time. a cyber incident/data breach) and loss events (e.g. executives).

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Indicators of compromise (IOCs): how we collect and use them

SecureList

This is the most precious source of intelligence as it provides unique and reliable data from trusted systems and technologies. Kaspersky’s private Threat Intelligence Portal (TIP), which is available to customers as a service, offers limited access to such in-house technical data.

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DCAP Systems: Protecting Your Data with Advanced Technology

SecureWorld News

Huge arrays of unstructured data utilized and modified by many users as well as the ever-growing complexity of attacks, lead to the fact that the usual means of protecting the perimeter of a corporate network no longer meet current information security requirements. DLPs are often focused on checking data that crosses the perimeter.

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Thinking About the Future of InfoSec (v2022)

Daniel Miessler

More Data Analysts (statistics and ML background, combined with data visualization). Most importantly, it will not only lock down all those settings but will enable verbose logging for all events and send it all to the Cognito instance within the company. So what about people?

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