eSecurity Planet

APRIL 14, 2023

Malicious bots can be used to carry out a range of cyber threats like account takeovers and DDoS attacks, so bot protection is an increasingly important defense for web-facing assets. Bot protection can be implemented through a variety of methods, including CAPTCHA tests, IP rate limiting, behavioral analysis, and machine learning algorithms.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 14, 2023

By carefully examining the dynamic interactions among these elements, we can highlight the significance of a comprehensive approach that integrates resilient security measures and fosters ethical behavior, user trust, and risk mitigation. In the realm of user trust, especially within the U.S., the stakes have never been higher.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 1, 2022

With fewer budget dollars and expert resources dedicated to cybersecurity than their larger counterparts, small and mid-sized organizations often make easier targets, particularly in today’s increasingly complex and connected cloud environment. Strong passwords are important, but passwords alone won’t keep your enterprise protected.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 23, 2024

Through digital interfaces, user reviews, and secure payment systems, Airbnb innovatively transformed how people travel and experience accommodations. The orchestration of product movements by algorithms and robots and drones highlights how automation can revolutionize supply chain processes.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

How to protect your organization from a social engineering attack. In my experience, one of the most difficult aspects of protecting an organization is making sure all team members understand the importance of building security into their everyday roles. Zero Trust Goes Beyond Products. Building strong policies and procedures.

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IT Security Guru

JULY 4, 2023

The top asset by far is servers (over 80%), followed by people and user devices (around 20%). Combining this figure with the fact that 83% of organizations have experienced more than one breach, and 60% increased the cost of their products or services due to the data breach, we can clearly see that the impact on a business can be staggering.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And let's not forget about the impact on finding and retaining talent; or layoffs that occur, pushing remaining resources (people) to the limit. All of this makes it more difficult for organizations to protect themselves from new and emerging cyber threats. Investing in security awareness training has a bottom line impact.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 27, 2022

Today’s organizations are facing significant threats that can impact a wide range of people, from individual users to the boardroom. Most organizations lack the expertise and internal resources to respond effectively to threats. THE CHALLENGES WITH PROTECTING EXECUTIVES AND KEY PERSONNEL.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

The Verizon DBIR 2021 points to some 85 percent of all breaches being because of a human element—as in a weakness being exploited. We need to take user protection seriously, change the security paradigm, by studying and building protections around people and processes, rather than solely focusing on technology.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The perennial vulnerability of users to email threats makes tools like employee training and email gateways essential cybersecurity defenses – see our picks for the best employee cybersecurity training programs and best secure web gateways. They skip the human factor, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While others, like Paragon, Candiru and Cognyte Software, have also reportedly used zero-click exploits to install software, NSO Group is the best known and most frequently cited user of the tactic. How to Protect Against Zero-Click Threats. Also read: Best Patch Management Software for 2022. NSO’s Business Model Spreads.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Penetration testing differs from vulnerability scanning by using human pentesters to probe for vulnerabilities as hackers would. Secure budget and human resources While penetration tests are cost-effective and have important benefits, organizations must first secure the budget and ensure they have the human resources to run them.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 16, 2023

However, for access control to be robust, businesses must effectively manage the respective secrets across their lifecycle and protect them from compromise. These secrets authenticate a user or machine to access applications or services within an organization’s IT ecosystem. You can’t protect something you don’t know.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

NIST notes that this definition isn’t intended to be a systems definition, meaning it doesn’t include the interfaces and services of otherwise independent products. Protecting software from exploitation. Security training. Automated testing for consistency and to minimize human effort. The definition of “critical trust”.

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NetSpi Executives

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Generative AI (now just referred to as ‘AI’), is really a ‘word predictor’ in that it absorbs a corpus of data, trains itself to predict language patterns in that data, and then uses those patterns to predict how to answer a question based on that corpus of data (or one similar to it). First and foremost is avoiding over-reliance on AI.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 19, 2022

It is often said that data is the new oil, which means data is the most valuable resource in the world currently. Sadly, many businesses don’t have adequate measures in place to protect their mission-critical data from theft, loss and corruption. What is a data protection solution? Read on to learn more about them.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As that definition spans the cloud and data centers, and on-premises, mobile and web users, application security needs to encompass a range of best practices and tools. Implement secure server configurations to maintain security and privacy of websites and protect private and sensitive data.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2021

While there will always be new holes to plug, security vulnerabilities usually stem from the same few causes: unpatched vulnerabilities, misconfigurations or user error, and even the most tech-savvy companies are vulnerable to these mistakes. Here are some of the most common IT security vulnerabilities and how to protect against them.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2023

This blog post explores the DevSecOps best practices that development teams can use to ensure that security is ingrained in the development process, leading to better products with reduced security risks and faster time-to-market. Next, the developers would work to identify mitigation strategies to address each of the identified threats.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

So when there’s a vulnerability reported in VPN products, the IT department is asked to focus on getting that software patched and ready to roll for the next day as soon as possible, and sometimes you can’t do that, or you prioritize other things.”. However, for some businesses the problem is largely about a lack of resources, said Moulin.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 23, 2018

While human beings still provide the key operational oversight and intelligent insights into today’s infrastructure, machine learning and artificial intelligence are gaining huge momentum in most areas of today’s systems, whether positioned on-premise or in the cloud.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 27, 2021

Aravo’s TPRM solution offers three product tiers (Express, Standard, and Advanced) for a range of organization complexity needs. BitSight’s highest reviews and ratings cited timeliness of vendor response to product questions and patching cadence. On Gartner Peer Insights, BitSight holds an average score of 4.5/5 RSA Archer Insight.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. We’re talking about an enormously powerful surveillance capability that no government has ever had in the history of humanity,” Stanley says.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

In fact, last year, scams accounted for 80% of reported identity compromises to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). These scams often exploit human psychology, trust, and vulnerabilities in order to trick individuals into sharing personal or confidential information. This was a 3% increase compared to the previous year.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

It offers a user-friendly interface and supports multiple programming languages and frameworks. By defining and managing the desired state of the software environment, configuration management tools simplify the deployment process and reduce the chances of human error, ultimately improving the reliability and security of the software.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We each need to consider how these trends may affect our organizations and allocate our budgets and resources accordingly: AI will turbo-charge cybersecurity and cyberthreats: Artificial intelligence (AI) will boost both attackers and defenders while causing governance issues and learning pains.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

A data breach is the unauthorized access and retrieval of sensitive information by an individual without the knowledge of the user or the owner. A data security strategy enables you to provide the protection they need. Accidental insiders -these are employees who cause harm accidentally without ill intention through simple human error.

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NetSpi Executives

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Meet the Contributors This roundup includes contributions from NetSPI Partners and Thomas Adams, NetSPI’s Product Manager, Breach and Attack Simulation. Thomas Adams, Product Manager, Breach and Attack Simulation, NetSPI “We see a need for unification and visibility for detection controls as the main challenges SOC teams must overcome.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 13, 2023

Organizations must monitor for new phishing tactics, train employees to recognize them, and implement advanced email filtering solutions. Recognizing the prevalence of BEC scams helps organizations prioritize executive training and secure email practices to minimize the risk of financial loss and data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. GRC tools are also useful for preventing and addressing vulnerabilities that will inevitably impact your systems, resources, and stakeholders. Audit management.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Endpoint: Enables access for human users and computer services and commonly includes PCs, laptops, Internet of Things (IoT), and operational technology (OT). Storage: Contains user and application data at rest; can be integrated with other elements (server, etc.) or segregated as cloud or network attached storage (NAS).

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

A cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) shields cloud workloads from a range of threats like malware, ransomware, DDoS attacks, cloud misconfigurations, insider threats, and data breaches.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. GRC tools are also useful for preventing and addressing vulnerabilities that will inevitably impact your systems, resources, and stakeholders. Audit management.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

So when there’s a vulnerability reported in VPN products, the IT department is asked to focus on getting that software patched and ready to roll for the next day as soon as possible, and sometimes you can’t do that, or you prioritize other things.”. However, Moulin thinks for some businesses the problem is largely about a lack of resources.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In this blog, I’ll be sharing my insights on what you can do to ensure your employees protect themselves, their data, and your organisation’s network and reputation. This includes using encryption, firewalls, and other security tools to protect your data from being intercepted or accessed by unauthorised individuals.

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NopSec

APRIL 7, 2019

Spam detection, facial recognition, market segmentation, social network analysis, personalized product recommendations, self-driving cars – applications of machine learning (ML) are everywhere around us. It is often dishonest, unethical, and fraudulent, and promotes products that offer little or no value. How big is the problem?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Best Practices for Protecting Your Network Types of Network Security Solutions What Are the Benefits of Network Security? Users now encompass both local and remote employees.

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