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

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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. NVMe over fabrics starts to become an important technology in cloud storage.

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Cybersecurity Mergers Flatline. Here’s Why That Won’t Last.

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Much like the rest of technology, merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for cybersecurity companies has been in a slump this year. Enterprise security customers are trying to align their security stacks and consolidate their ‘tool ecosystems’ so they can focus on more strategic risk across their people, process, and technology spectrum.

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Weekly Vulnerability Recap – October 16, 2023 – DDoS, Microsoft, Apple & Linux Lead a Busy Week

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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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Public Cloud Security Explained: Everything You Need to Know

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Cloud services often provide strong encryption technologies to protect stored data. They filter incoming and outgoing network traffic, permitting or prohibiting it depending on established security criteria. To guard against known vulnerabilities, keep all software and apps up to date. Update and patch on a regular basis.

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What Is a Circuit-Level Gateway? Definitive Guide

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Dropped packets also defend against many different types of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) that attempt to consume server resources with TCP packets unrelated to established connections such as ACK-floods and SYN-floods. This effectively blocks many techniques used to explore networks and open ports for potential attacks.

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What Is Cloud Workload Protection? Ultimate Guide

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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. Workload settings, software inventories, network connections, and user access privileges are all visible using CWPP tools.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

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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.