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5 Stages of the Vulnerability Management Lifecycle

eSecurity Planet

This could include vulnerability scanners , configuration assessment tools, or security intelligence platforms. Depending on your organization and its security needs, this could involve running vulnerability scans on all your assets or prioritizing certain assets based on their potential exposure and importance.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

The Global State of Information Security Survey 2017 suggests that companies should look into deploying threat detection tools and processes (including monitoring and analyzing security intelligence information), conducting vulnerability and threat assessments, penetration tests and security information, and event management (SIEM) tools.

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Cloud-based security: SECaaS

eSecurity Planet

To ease these burdens, SECaaS and SOCaaS vendors have emerged as cloud-based security as a service that can collect, analyze, and correlate your information from diverse systems and applications — turning former headaches into actionable information security intelligence. Security as a Service (SECaaS) .

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Six Effective Ransomware Risk Reduction Strategies

NopSec

Crypto-ransomware systematically encrypts files that are stored locally or on accessible network file shares, using strong cryptographic algorithms. The ransomware determines what files to encrypt by their file type, with office documents – docx,xlsx,pptx, photographs, and video files – almost always targeted.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Beyond Identity Identity management 2020 Private Expel Managed security service 2016 Private Tigera Zero trust for K8s 2016 Private Intrinsic Application security 2016 Acquired: VMware HackerOne Penetration testing 2015 Private Virtru Data encryption 2014 Private Cloudflare Cloud infrastructure 2010 NYSE: NET.