CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 8, 2023

Kindervag proposed a new approach to cybersecurity that challenges the traditional perimeter-based security model, which assumes that everything inside the network is trusted and everything outside is not. Resurgence in Popularity In recent years, zero trust has gained renewed popularity due to several factors.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2022

Credential compromise is the leading cause of cybercriminals’ ability to gain access to enterprise resources. It’s a new model of security that requires explicit verification for everything, both inside and outside an organisation. It supports multiple endpoints, diverse user profiles, and protects numerous assets and resources.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Management can infer an employee's intentions by analyzing changes in their online activity and resource usage. This data can be used to gauge turnover risk, assess the need for new positions, and evaluate employee productivity and workplace engagement. This is particularly relevant for remote workers.

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Data collection Artificial Intelligence Surveillance Risk 101

Jane Frankland

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Cyber-attacks have risen from last year with the most common forms of attack being credential theft, phishing, misconfigured cloud, and vulnerabilities in third-party software. It’s not all bad news though. Increasingly, employees want to work long-term in a hybrid or fully remote “work from anywhere” manner.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

The flip side of that coin is a similarly broad recognition of the dangers and tradeoffs involved, with 94% saying they are also aware of the security risks associated with using VPNs and two-thirds (67%) acknowledging that they are considering alternative options for secure remote access.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2021

Now, millions of us across the world are adapting to remote work. And this requires securing our networks for the new normal of IT infrastructures. Surprisingly, a large portion of cyberattacks can be best prevented by reducing the risks to a remote workforce created by human error. Secure systems over cloud databases.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 7, 2023

The influx of remote working culture has added new challenges and cybersecurity risks for small businesses. Moreover, small businesses are at a higher risk of being attacked because they have limited resources to respond to cyber-attacks. A cyber-attack resulting in valuable data loss ultimately triggers regulatory penalties.

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Small Business Cybersecurity Cyber Attacks Data breaches 93

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Now, our latest research reveals how IT decision makers’ security concerns have been changed by enduring from home for so long; how they’ve adapted with new tools and training; and how confident they now are in their remote employees’ approach to security.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 13, 2020

Chief Information Security Officers were already on the hot seat well before the COVID-19 global pandemic hit, and they are even more so today. One new challenge CISOs’ suddenly face is how to lock down web conferencing tools, like Zoom, Skype and Webex, without gutting their usefulness. Related: Why U.S.

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CISO Cybersecurity Digital transformation Risk 309

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Clearswift launched research with UK public sector cybersecurity workers in May 2020. Remote collaboration increases the risk that an organizations’ data is not always shared securely 100 percent of the time. Manage Digital Transformation and the Move to Office 365. Increase Cybersecurity Awareness and Best Practices.

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Spinone

AUGUST 21, 2018

Many offices have a “green policy” that aims to reduce their environmental impact in terms of energy usage, use of physical resources such as paper, and pollution and waste. The Environmental Benefits of The Cloud Cloud computing technologies offer numerous benefits for cost reduction and business user convenience.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In fact, the most popular time for criminals to send emails targeting workers with funds-transfer scams is 9 a.m. An employee who just arrived at the office or opened their laptop at home may hustle to fulfill the request, not realizing that the invoice they’re paying doesn’t come from the CFO’s real email address. on a Tuesday.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 31, 2022

In a world where uncertainty is the new normal, Cisco Secure empowers organizations with security resilience so they can endure unpredictable circumstances. But if you connect everything, you can consistently monitor and protect all the assets in your environment, and forgotten systems won’t become key resources for cybercriminals.

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Technology Risk Architecture Manufacturing 105

SC Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

The flip side of that coin is a similarly broad recognition of the dangers and tradeoffs involved, with 94 percent saying they are also aware of the security risks associated with using VPNs and two-thirds (67 percent) acknowledging that they are considering alternative options for secure remote access.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Also, that threat actors, especially state-sponsored, and criminal enterprises would take advantage of the expanding cyber-attack surface by using their resources to employ more sophisticated means for discovering target vulnerabilities, automating phishing, and finding new deceptive paths for infiltrating malware.

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Cybersecurity IoT Artificial Intelligence Cyber threats 78

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2023

million additional workers needed to effectively secure businesses. As an industry, we need to preemptively address these risks, both by immediately hiring and onboarding new cyber talent and introducing new tools and resources to help simplify operations for SMBs and other thinly-stretched teams.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

In a perfect storm of lightning-quick edtech adoption with limited IT support, cybercriminals have seized on the opportunity to launch an unprecedented number of strikes against schools—21 ransomware attacks in January 2023 alone—straining resources and impacting the delivery of critical education services across the US.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Zero trust will take on greater prominence with the continued role of the remote and hybrid workplace. Remote work will continue driving the need for zero trust since hybrid work is now the new normal. As the geopolitical situation is quite tense, different types of fraud will take advantage of new events that will take place.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It’s become an entire collection of rapidly developing technologies and products that includes specialized applications, wearable devices, implantable sensors, and cloud databases, many of which have only appeared in the past couple of years. With the onset of the pandemic, there has been a new impetus to develop the telehealth market.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In fact, from January through the end of October, Kaspersky detected more than 2,300 fraudulent global resources aimed at 85,000 potential crypto investors or users who are interested in cryptocurrency mining. In addition, a new proposed law compels US businesses to disclose any ransomware payments within 48 hours of the transaction.

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Cryptocurrency Banking Cybercrime Ransomware 103

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offers firewall capabilities as a cloud-based service. FWaaS takes next-generation firewall (NGFW) capabilities and moves them to the cloud, providing greater security for distributed organizations without the need for on-site hardware or maintenance. Why Is There a Need for FWaaS?

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Firewall Architecture Data privacy Internet 84

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2023

Large, sprawling organizations often struggle to apply consistent security policies outside of their network to remote workers accessing cloud-hosted resources, branch offices, and edge computing. We will explore SASE in more detail through the following topics: What Problem Does SASE Solve? What Is SASE?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

People looking to secure a small office or home office (SOHO) environment do not need the same tools and techniques of a small or medium sized business (SMB), let alone an enterprise with thousands of devices and dozens, if not hundreds of networks. Instead, organizations should use a virtual private network (VPN) solution.

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Firewall Network Security Penetration Testing Encryption 96

Jane Frankland

JULY 17, 2023

This includes everything from productivity and cybersecurity to superior computing experiences for employees, who are increasingly collaborating remotely, multitasking, and placing strain on applications competing for computing resources. I wrote about this recently in regard to getting smarter with cybersecurity and sustainability.

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Computers and Electronics Technology Cybersecurity Risk 130

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 5, 2022

Whether organizations call it digital transformation or just using technology to create opportunities for new, easier ways to work, one thing is certain. Named AT&T SASE with Cisco, the service converges network and security management into a single cloud-delivered, integrated service. AT&T Secure Remote Access with Cisco.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Things to Celebrate in 2020 Remote Work In a very short time, many organizations made the massive shift to supporting remote work. This new modern remote work model is likely here to stay. We've also connected with our co-workers in new ways and in a sense have become more human.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2022

Video conferencing vendor Zoom has seen its fortunes soar amid the remote work boom of the last two years, and other cloud collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams and Cisco Webex have seen demand skyrocket too. Also read: Remote Work Security: Priorities & Projects. Secure Access for Remote Workers: RDP, VPN & VDI.

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McAfee

MARCH 5, 2021

Providing faster “direct to cloud” access for your users to critical applications and cloud services can certainly improve productivity and reduce costs, but cutting corners on security can come with huge consequences. Safety and security cannot be left behind in a cloud of transformation dust.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 13, 2022

Businesses are currently struggling with the number of workers leaving for alternate employers. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the common model was to have the vast majority of employees within the office and in a controlled technology environment. Cloud Security Platform Delivery. The Great Resignation.

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McAfee

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Many people are excited about Gartner’s Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) framework and the cloud-native convergence of networks and security. This became increasingly difficult as digital transformation spurred widespread cloud adoption and empowered remote and mobile workers. Figure 1: SASE convergence.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Accelerated cloud migration and work from anywhere trends have changed the security landscape. Even though 80% of the respondents have evolved their policies to secure identities, the level of confidence to secure these identities, especially the ones for remote employees, dropped from 49% to just 32% in the past year. Key findings.

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CISO Cloud Migration Digital transformation IoT 71

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

To enable remote work, expect IT vendors to install remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools on most devices under the contract. MSPs can eliminate slack time by deploying workers on a fractional basis to multiple clients.

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Penetration Testing Software Cybersecurity Risk 89

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

The EDN concealment function hides and denies access to local files, folders, mapped network or cloud shares, local privileged accounts, and removable storage, preventing attackers from seeing and targeting them. It can be deployed on-premises or in cloud or hybrid cloud environments. Key Differentiators. Key Differentiators.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 31, 2021

The shift to a more distributed workforce is driving the need for anywhere, anytime access to resources, wherever they exist. The hybrid workplace is further accelerating the journey to cloud. Cloud adoption is a major trend that organizations are embracing as realistic and strategic path forward. Seeing 20/20 with Cisco SASE.

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Architecture Digital transformation Risk Internet 121

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

To enable remote work, expect IT vendors to install remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools on most devices under the contract. MSPs can eliminate slack time by deploying workers on a fractional basis to multiple clients.

Penetration Testing 76

Penetration Testing Software Cybersecurity Risk 76

SecureList

DECEMBER 10, 2020

While direct customer facing businesses like restaurants and retailers have had to change their opening hours, adapt their business models or close their doors entirely, there are still millions of jobs that can be done at home, outside of the usual office working environment. What changed: guilty pleasures and life-work disbalance.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

We constantly see new threats, and threat vectors, come and go; which puts a tremendous strain on the InfoSec teams that have to protect organizations and businesses from these threats. At the same time companies saw security resources in their organizations dwindle, leaving defenders to cope up with the onslaught of attacks.

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