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Telecommunications: A Case Study

Approachable Cyber Threats

Category Awareness, News, Case Study As one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, telecommunication has become a highly vulnerable target for cybersecurity threats. In short, telecommunications (telecom) is a fundamental and critical component of our global infrastructure. What can be done?

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Telecommunications: A Case Study

Approachable Cyber Threats

Category Awareness, News, Case Study As one of the world’s fastest-growing industries, telecommunication has become a highly vulnerable target for cybersecurity threats. In short, telecommunications (telecom) is a fundamental and critical component of our global infrastructure. What can be done?

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Weakness at the Network Edge: Mandiant Examines 2022’s Zero-Day Exploits

eSecurity Planet

.” The three activity sets included a campaign against the Philippine government between March and May 2022; a campaign against telecommunications and business service providers in South Asia in April 2022; and a campaign against organizations in Belarus and Russia in May 2022.

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GUEST ESSAY: A roadmap to achieve a better balance of network security and performance

The Last Watchdog

Related: Taking a risk-assessment approach to vulnerabilities. Even before COVID, enterprises saw huge increases in people working outside the traditional corporate firewall. For example, half of enterprise firewalls capable of inspecting encrypted traffic don’t have that feature turned on due to performance concerns.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

eSecurity Planet

History of MSSPs As internet service providers (ISPs) and telecommunications companies (telecoms) began offering commercial access to the internet in the late 1990s, they began to also offer firewall appliances and associated managed services. and then monitors the endpoint alerts to respond to detected threats. Outsourcing U.S.

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Cybersecurity awareness: Train your employees and reduce cyber threats

IT Security Guru

After all, cybersecurity is a matter of proper human risk management. Several reports, such as the World Economic Forum Global Risk Report 2022 and Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report highlight that human error is by far the biggest and dominant cause of illicit actions and cybersecurity issues. Reduce human risk.

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What is NFV

CyberSecurity Insiders

NFV simplifies network operations and significantly reduces hardware costs by allowing network functions, such as firewalls, load balancers, and routers, to run on general-purpose servers. This simplifies the deployment and management of network services, improves efficiency, and minimizes the risk of errors.