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Monitor Insider Threats but Build Trust First

Security Affairs

Detection and Prevention Tools that attempt to prevent cyberattacks are often designed to keep outsiders out, using firewalls, authentication and authorization, signature-based detection, and other measures. All three are costly to remediate and potentially dangerous to a company’s assets, operations, and reputation.

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Who’s Hacking You?

Webroot

By default, DNS traffic is unencrypted, allowing internet service providers and other third parties to monitor website requests, surveil browsing habits, and even duplicate web servers to redirect traffic. However, cybercriminals can also use legal DNS traffic surveillance to their advantage.

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What is WAAP? – A Quick Walk Through

CyberSecurity Insiders

Protecting APIs against modern cyber threats requires going beyond the traditional solutions. Web Application and API protection (WAAP) , the next generation of Web Application Firewall (WAF) comes to the rescue. This is simply an extension of the requirement for VLANs, firewalls, RASPs, and WAFs. What is WAAP? .

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IaaS Security: Top 8 Issues & Prevention Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Security Misconfigurations Inadequately designed security settings, such as open ports, lax access restrictions, or misconfigured firewall rules, might expose infrastructure vulnerabilities. Firewalls Firewalls play an essential role in enhancing the security of your system.

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What is a CASB and How Does It Help With Cloud Data?

Spinone

Such policies include cloud access, data management, threat detection, encryption, device management, risk assessment, login control, app security, and many others. firewall-based). Proxy-based brokers provide real-time monitoring to detect potential policy violations.

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7 Cyber Security Courses Online For Everybody

Spinone

Real-Time Cyber Threat Detection and Mitigation: Teaches you how to prevent, detect, and mitigate common attacks in real-time. The course consists of four modules: Hackers Exposed: You will find out methods that stop hackers, block tracking, and prevent government surveillance. All presented with real examples.

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What Is a SaaS Security Checklist? Tips & Free Template

eSecurity Planet

Data Security & Threat Detection Framework The data security and threat detection framework serves as the foundation for data protection plans, protecting intellectual property, customer data, and employee information. Are firewalls configured and maintained to prevent unwanted access and data breaches?

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