Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

With more and more organizations embracing digital transformation and accelerating their pace to digitize every piece of information, they become increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated cyber-attacks and data breaches. How is data stored and used: What are the risks and how to mitigate?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

It was designed to make it convenient for system administrators to automate tasks and manage configurations across all Windows endpoints and servers in a company network. Today, if you examine any high-profile data breach, you’re likely to find memory-hacking techniques utilized at multiple key stages of the attack.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

The City experts believe that the group specifically targeted a prioritized list of servers using legitimate Microsoft system administrative tools. Early on the morning of Wednesday, May 03, 2023, the group started executing the ransomware on the City of Dallas.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In most organization system administrators can disable or change most or all SSH configurations; these settings and configurations can significantly increase or reduce SSH security risks. Key sprawl, or a lack of SSH key management, is a common situation that increases other SSH security risks. What is key sprawl?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

According to IDC’s 2021 State of Cloud Security Report , 79 percent of surveyed companies reported a cloud data breach in the last 18 months. Public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) may be less vulnerable than traditional data centers, but that doesn’t mean it’s without its own set of risks.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 12, 2023

The course will revolve around real-world system architectures, the threats and exploits that could result in a data breach , and the defense mechanisms that could be employed to protect a network. Previous experience is optional to complete this course, although some students feel there need to be more practical exercises.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 28, 2023

A vulnerability scanner will look for known security flaws, and some even provide a risk rating to each device and vulnerability. Assessment: After the inventory has been completed, the patch management tool prioritizes the devices and software that should be patched first based on risk assessment.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Security audits and assessments: To find weaknesses in your organization’s systems and procedures, do routine security audits and vulnerability assessments. Vendor and Third-Party Risk Assessment: Conduct risk assessment for suppliers and third parties.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2020

The page above reveals the bottom line of this report: "This wake-up call presents us with an opportunity to right longstanding imbalances and lapses, to reorient how we view risk, redacted.We must care as much about securing our systems as we care about running them if we are to make the necessary revolutionary change.".

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2018

Privileged users today can include a multitude of people from system administrators, network engineers, and database administrators, to data center operators, upper management, and security personnel. Privileged Users. They’re generally either inside or under contract to the enterprise. Privilege Account Management (PAM).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Brian Krebs is an independent investigative reporter known for his coverage of technology, malware , data breaches , and cybercrime developments. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As high-profile data breaches, such as Equifax , continue to dominate headlines, the topic of cybersecurity –or lack thereof–has commanded greater attention. It has become clear that regardless of a company’s size or industry, data breaches are inevitable.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

I would call the company I'd targeted, ask for their computer room, make sure I was talking to a system administrator, and tell him, 'This is [whatever fictitious name popped into my head at that moment], from DEC support. As a teenager, he discovered that social engineering was a trick that worked. "I

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

PAM focuses on larger actions such as the bulk download or alteration of databases that might give sysadmins access to a large number of accounts or critical data. These tasks create a much larger attack surface and a greater risk of a data breach, making PAM an essential tool in securing a network and its assets.

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