eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While cloud service providers (CSPs) offer their own native security, CWPP offers an additional layer of customized protection and management to fit the demands of workloads. It provides full cloud security management, reducing risks and protecting assets. Effective CWP techniques mitigate both external and internal risks.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The past week has been an eventful one for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, from record DDoS attacks and three Microsoft zero-days to vulnerabilities in Linux, Apple, Citrix, and other widely used technologies. The botnet compromises these devices and enlists them in its DDoS swarm by exploiting several vulnerabilities in them.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks occur when attackers use a large number of devices to attempt to overwhelm a resource and deny access to that resource for legitimate use. The very first DDoS attacks occurred when network engineers misconfigured networks and overwhelmed components by accident. Volumetric DDoS Attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

“It’s no surprise that many enterprise CISOs are suffering from ‘tool fatigue’ — having too many tools from too many vendors complicating an already complex threat environment,” said Robert Watson, Director of the Risk & Cyber Strategy Consulting Practice at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). It’s a good buy for Thales.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol dubbed “Rapid Reset” has led to record DDoS attacks on web servers in recent months. In the meantime, the best defense is using a DDoS mitigation service like Cloudflare’s in front of any web-facing web or API server.”

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP): Best used for securing specific workloads and applications, with a particular focus on runtime safety and vulnerability management. Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM): Best used to effectively manage cloud resource entitlements, reduce access risks, and maintain compliance.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Verifiable performance: Provides easily testable conditions for allow and drop rules that verify minimum security capabilities and baseline risk mitigation. Stateful features recognize and drop many DDoS attacks that attempt to use corrupted TCP processes, such as sending replies to non-existent connections to consumer server memory.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ransomware attacks have become much more dangerous and have evolved beyond basic security defenses and business continuity techniques like next-gen antivirus and backups. As part of double extortion attacks, tactics often include the threat of DDoS attacks. The pains of double extortion ransomware A security gap?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Organizations that manage their own servers will need to isolate, harden, maintain, and audit DNS servers the same as they would any other high-risk server managing sensitive information. Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Public Cloud Security Risks While public cloud systems offer scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency, they can also pose significant risks if not properly secured. Staff Education: Train employees on cloud security best practices and the possible risks associated with cloud use.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Access restrictions, network settings, and security group rules are all at risk of misconfiguration. Security misconfigurations can have serious effects, ranging from the exposure of sensitive data to illegal access. This lack of openness might make it difficult to notice and respond to security breaches effectively.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

Anti-spam services focus on eliminating dangerous and annoying SPAM messages from inboxes through configuration and monitoring of email security and similar tools. Email security deploys tools , uses techniques, and implements protocols such as SPF , DKIM , and DMARC to prevent threats delivered via email and attachments.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As always, our pressured IT and security teams will need to use severity ratings in combination with a risk analysis of assets potentially exposed by vulnerabilities to determine priorities and schedules. This shared certificate is then abused to bypass Cloudflare DDoS security and launch DDoS attacks against known server IP addresses.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

From there, these tools send alerts to security teams if and when risks are identified. These platforms make it possible for security teams to analyze consolidated threat feeds from various external alerts and log events.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM): Manages compliance, risk, and security with controlled user, system, and app cloud resource access. Cloud native application protection (CNAP) platforms: Secure applications and cloud resources with cloud-native and integrated security.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The “Shift Left Security” strategy promotes early security integration into your Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) process. You may examine container images for misconfigurations, malware , IAM risks, lateral movement concerns, and sensitive data exposure.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

How AI is elevating social engineering risks The combination of AI's deep-learning algorithms and advanced processing capabilities has given malicious actors the ability to develop more complex attacks. In turn, this has left organizations and individuals far behind in the race to secure defenses appropriately.

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McAfee

APRIL 21, 2021

Most of us don’t have responsibility for airports, but thinking about airport security can teach us lessons about how we consider, design and execute IT security in our enterprise. Block surfing to high risk web sites. User behavior analytics for risky behavior. Database of travellers, prior travel, destination information.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Features Experienced penetration testers Use of a variety of tools and techniques Risk management services Red Teaming Breach and attack simulation PTaaS Pros Comprehensive offerings High-quality services Strong reputation Cons Perhaps more expensive than the lowest-cost options, but users seem content with what they get.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Older distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks used malformed TCP requests to overwhelm servers and session filtering drops requests not associated with new or established sessions. Stateful Inspection Stateful inspection firewalls track the behavior of active network connections to detect and block potential data and traffic risks.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2023

This trend spreads out data center risk over the internet and increases the potential vectors for attack. SASE provides an edge security solution that addresses these challenges without the bottlenecks of traditional virtual private network (VPN) solutions. For additional reading: Top SASE Solutions What Is Edge Security?

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

More sophisticated organizations can further protect identity with investments in tools such as: Application programming interface (API) security : Guards against attacks using program-to-program communication protocols. NetScout: Observed 13,142,840 DDoS attacks, including: 104,216 video gaming enterprise attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 23, 2021

As a whole, the Cisco suite is a powerful zero trust security solution. Firepower NGFWs provide advanced malware protection, security intelligence, sandboxing, DDoS mitigation and a next-generation intrusion prevention system. Entry points are always at risk. Benefits of cybersecurity tools. EDR benefits. CASB benefits.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

As the demand for robust security defense grows by the day, the market for cybersecurity technology has exploded, as well as the number of available solutions. Microsoft has quietly built up a large security portfolio. Imperva (WAF, database security, threat intelligence, DDoS ). Learn more about Microsoft.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Have hope that through the hard work and brilliant minds behind these security defenses that 2022 will not be a repeat of such high level attacks. Learn more about what security leaders have to say about the upcoming year below: Neil Jones, cybersecurity evangelist, Egnyte. Jeff Sizemore, chief governance officer, Egnyte.

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