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American Water Shuts Down Services After Cybersecurity Breach

eSecurity Planet

Strengthen Perimeter Defenses Firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDS): Firewalls are the first line of defense, blocking unauthorized access to the network, while IDS helps monitor network traffic for suspicious activity. This significantly reduces the risk of unauthorized access, even if passwords are compromised.

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Cisco Joins the Launch of Amazon Security Lake

Cisco Security

The Cisco Secure Technical Alliance supports the open ecosystem and AWS is a valued technology alliance partner, with integrations across the Cisco Secure portfolio, including SecureX, Secure Firewall, Secure Cloud Analytics, Duo, Umbrella, Web Security Appliance, Secure Workload, Secure Endpoint, Identity Services Engine, and more.

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How Ransomware Gangs Weaponize Employee Burnout to Breach Corporate Defenses

SecureWorld News

It's not about brute-forcing passwords; it's about brute-forcing human weakness at exactly the right time. Even insider threats are easier to cultivate when burnout hits critical mass. Staff stop caring about strong passwords, following device protocols, maintaining cloud security posture , or reporting suspicious behavior.

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Threat Spotlight: Credential Theft vs. Admin Control—Two Devastating Paths to VPN Exploitation

Digital Shadows

For businesses, this means their compromised access can be resold multiple times, leaving them vulnerable to repeated attacks from different threat actors if passwords arent changed promptly. Threat groups like Akira have exploited CVE-2022-40684 for ransomware deployment 5.

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The Case for Multi-Vendor Security Integrations

Cisco Security

The AlienApp for Cisco Secure Endpoint enables you to automate threat detection and response activities between USM Anywhere and Cisco Secure Endpoint. This new integration supports Umbrella proxy, cloud firewall, IP, and DNS logs. New Cisco Firepower Next-Gen Firewall Integrations. Happy integrating! Read more here.

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CSTA Turns 400 – Proof That Technology Integrations Is Exactly What You Are Looking For

Cisco Security

Cisco Secure Firewall integrations. Cisco Secure Firewall has several new partner integrations. CyberArk reduces VPN risk with MFA enforcement on any VPN client that supports RADIUS; including Cisco Secure Firewall. HashiCorp (Terraform) provides infrastructure automation and now supports Secure Firewall ASA.

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Who’s Hacking You?

Webroot

Pretending to be someone else, these hackers manipulate their victims into opening doors to systems or unwittingly sharing passwords or banking details. Aside from arming yourself with the knowledge you need to identify attacks, it’s important to install threat detection and remediation software on your devices.

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