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News Alert: Survey shows vast majority of IT pros consider ‘passwordless’ access a top priority

The Last Watchdog

More than 375 respondents, including developers, IT and cybersecurity professionals from mid-market to large enterprises across industry verticals such as financial, manufacturing, technology, communications, media and others, from both the U.S. and Canada were surveyed.

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New Duo E-Book, Attack Vectors Decoded: Securing Organizations Against Identity-Based Threats

Duo's Security Blog

Identity-based cyberattacks are a challenge across all organizations, regardless of size, industry or technology. They can take advantage of the less secure methods of authentication, like one-time passcodes, and socially engineer a user to hand over codes or intercept them before they reach the end user.

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Intro to Phishing: How Dangerous Is Phishing in 2023?

Duo's Security Blog

Accounting for nearly a quarter of reported incidents in Australia, phishing is a broad category of social engineering with several variations. These social engineering techniques tricked employees into revealing their login credentials, which allowed attackers to access additional systems and data. What is phishing?

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To Achieve Zero Trust Security, Trust The Human Element

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Jenny Radcliffe, People Hacker & Social Engineer. From a social engineering perspective, Zero Trust is a good mindset to have, mostly because it avoids the “guard the perimeter”, the "castle and moat" idea of security. A malicious social engineer might gain access to a system through compromising an insider.

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2022: The threat landscape is paved with faster and more complex attacks with no signs of stopping

Webroot

Malicious actors will continue to improve their social engineering tactics, making it more difficult to recognize deception and make it increasingly easier to become a victim, predicts Milbourne. Earlier in 2021, we detailed the hidden costs of ransomware in our eBook. Ransomware. What to expect in 2022?

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Hacker Personas Explained: Know Your Enemy and Protect Your Business

Webroot

Cybercriminals are masters at using technology and psychology to exploit basic human trust and compromise businesses of all sizes. While cybersecurity advice is often focused on technology like endpoint protection, firewalls and anti-virus, it’s important to remember that behind every breach is a human.

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Zero Trust Is a Journey and Businesses Have Many Rivers to Cross

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Digital transformation, proliferation of location agnostic technologies and immense data generation have created uncontrolled remote environments and a fragmented enterprise ecosystem, rendering legacy security policies and practices based on trust obsolete. However, Zero Trust is not another technology, rather it is a journey.