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

The Last Watchdog

Assessing the risks involved in using the latest technology is something our culture had to adopt in the early days of the computer. New technologies come with risks — there’s no denying that. military officials hired data analysts to crack the Japanese secret code known as JN-25.

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Applying Heuristics in Cybersecurity

Approachable Cyber Threats

Category Risk Modeling, Quantitative Risk Risk Level. ePHI means high risk), or they could be decision rules we encode into algorithms, like those used in software for malware and virus detection (e.g. Consider the following: “I hear about ransomware all the time. What are heuristics?”

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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. Customers also use DCAP to detect various anomalies.