IT Security Guru

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Their end result is to obtain money or steal sensitive data which normally involves ransomware schemes, state-sponsored methods or just nefarious individuals looking to make a name for themselves in the online underworld. Either way, they are more devious and better equipped than 12 months ago.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Next-generation firewalls are well, XDRing, IPS in prevention mode, and we had 100% attainment of our security awareness weekly training podcast. How did ransomware propagate across several VLANs protected with micro-segmentation and isolation? Hold on, didn’t we just deploy CASB for DLP? Business relies on customers.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 14, 2021

It also has become very clear that we won’t achieve the full potential of digital transformation without security somehow getting intricately woven into every layer of corporate IT systems. The firewall emerged as the cornerstone around which companies were encouraged to pursue a so-called defense-in-depth strategy.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Even with extensive firewalls, IDS, email security, zero-trust, ransomware, identity threat, and business email compromise protection, attacks still have a substantial financial impact on organizations. Time to Accept the Risk of Open Source? Where is the real risk? Accepting Open Source Risk. appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2019

The recent network breach of Wipro , a prominent outsourcing company based in India, serves as a stunning reminder that digital transformation cuts two ways. While ransomware attacks can cause material damage, another type of attack enterprises need to consider are ‘silent’ attacks, like the one Wipro and its customers experienced.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 22, 2021

Primary vectors take the form of phishing campaigns, supply chain corruption and ransomware attacks, like the one that recently resulted in the shut down of Colonial Pipeline. What’s happening is that digital transformation, while providing many benefits, has also dramatically expanded the attack surface. “An

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Zero Trust can help enterprises become more resilient, reduce cyber risk, and drive digital transformation initiatives to move their business forward when done in the right way. The ideal security strategy against ransomware must start with a Zero Trust model. Implementing Zero Trust. The answer is simple.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Spirent refers to this as “data breach emulation,’’ something David DeSanto, Spirent’s threat research director, told me is designed to give companyies a great advantage; it makes it possible to see precisely how the latest ransomware or crypto mining malware would impact a specific network, with all of its quirky complexity.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Related: How 5G will escalate DDoS attacks Caught in the pull of digital transformation , companies are routing ever more core operations and services through the Internet, or, more precisely, through IP addresses, of one kind or another.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 19, 2019

Security information and event management, or SIEM, could yet turn out to be the cornerstone technology for securing enterprise networks as digital transformation unfolds. Related: How NSA cyber weapon could be used for a $200 billion ransomware caper. Exabeam is a bold upstart in the SIEM space.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Virtual patching bypasses the complex and time-consuming process of developing and deploying patches by using rules, mitigations and protective steps, often at the IPS or firewall level, to shore up networks to prevent attackers or malware from accessing these vulnerabilities. All of these issues are exploited by attackers.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

With growing concerns around security, ransomware and retail breaches, there are a few key considerations that retailers should keep in mind when it comes to protecting their organizations. Retail’s great “digital transformation” sped up, as did the number of data breaches impacting retail. Data breach costs rose from $3.86

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Jane Frankland

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The average data breach lifecycle is still too lengthy, malware variants are growing by 45%, and although ransomware attacks were lower than last year, ransom payments are rising as more companies are prepared to pay out than ever before. How to simplify, maximise returns and work smarter not harder.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

IDC recently had the opportunity to talk to CISOs regarding the integration of Cisco Secure Workload and Secure Firewall. Digital transformation though does not wait for pristine security measures and policies to be put in place. As analysts, we can articulate the technical benefits. Our conversations were quite illuminating.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

Yet another common incursion method is to launch a self-spreading worm designed to seek out and infect computers with unpatched or zero-day vulnerabilities, and then utilize memory-hacking techniques to propagate and deliver malicious payloads on a tier far below the radar of conventional firewalls. So the collective publicly released them.

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IT Security Guru

JUNE 4, 2021

As one of the unfortunate benefactors from the changing business behaviours of the pandemic, ransomware attack trends continue to evolve. The gravity of the threats of ransomware was exemplified by the attack that shut down the cross-country gas pipeline system Colonial Pipeline; the largest U.S. A new era of ransomware.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2024

The cybercriminal’s arsenal grows daily, from ransomware and supply chain attacks to advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero-day exploits. Old Tools Are Failing Miserably In their mission to strengthen their digital defenses, defenders employ a range of tools and approaches, each with their strengths and weaknesses.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

Furthermore, 50% encountered ransomware and other malware; 29% reported incidents of data getting exposed; 25% had accounts compromised; and 17% dealt with incidents of crypto-jacking. It’s the same thing as buying a firewall and only adding any-to-any rules. LW: Shifting gears a bit, what’s going on with ransomware?

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 21, 2022

Already, several major ransomware attacks have struck hospitals and other healthcare organizations. How does ransomware affect healthcare? The digital transformation of the healthcare industry, combined with COVID-era technology and policy changes, have provided significant benefits to healthcare workers.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Secure web gateway (SWG) solutions help keep enterprise networks from falling victim to ransomware , malware , and other threats carried by internet traffic and malicious websites. Secure web gateways, then, provide fast, secure access to the Internet and SaaS, making digital business a safe and productive experience.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Related :Promise vs. pitfalls of IoT For small- and mid-sized businesses, firewalls, antivirus suites and access management systems represent the entry stakes for participating in today’s digital economy. Threat actors simply seek out the endless fresh attack vectors arising as an unintended consequence of digital transformation.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Yet in the age of Big Data and digital transformation many organizations still don’t do this very well. Likewise, if one storage location goes off line for any reason, say a ransomware attack or an earthquake, the full data set can be recovered from the other locations. Sounds simple enough.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 20, 2021

Security got bolted on by installing firewalls at web gateways. In support of digital transformation, company networks today must connect to endless permutations of users and apps, both on-premises and in the Internet cloud. Twenty years ago, network connectivity was straightforward. Fast forward to the present.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The shift to hybrid working and digital transformation has accelerated the use of APIs. In detecting an API attack, 29% say they rely on alerts from an API gateway and 21% rely on web application firewalls (WAFs). API security may not be making news headlines like ransomware and DDoS attacks yet.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Related: The state of ransomware Who knew that much the same thing routinely happens to enterprises? ExtraHop’s finding vividly shows how, as digital transformation ramps up, companies really have no clue what moves back and forth, nor in and out, of their networks on a daily basis. But there is a larger lesson here.

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McAfee

JUNE 22, 2020

URL filtering then transitioned to proxy servers sitting behind corporate firewalls. Ransomware, Phishing and other advanced web-based threats are putting users and endpoints at risk. Digital transformation demands nothing less. Another issue revolves the encrypted nature of the internet. On-Demand Webinar.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 5, 2021

Illumio’s workload and endpoint security platforms fit nicely into the zero trust space, and with its microsegmentation and whitelisting abilities, the company says it can even prevent the spread of ransomware. Web Application Firewall. Learn more about Symantec. Visit website. Cloud Workload Protection. Control Compliance Suite.

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SC Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

NIST’s forthcoming guidelines could likely drive new application security technology adoption in the same way that the PCI DSS has driven the adoption of Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). The guidance could help minimize the risks around known vulnerabilities that ransomware actors target.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 27, 2020

What’s more, he comprehensively lays out why ransomware and deep fake campaigns are likely to endure, posing a big threat to organizations in all sectors for the foreseeable future. LW: How far do you expect the corporate sector to actually get mitigating cyber risks as digital transformation accelerates?

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