SC Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

During the pandemic last year the brilliance of information security personnel was on full display, as businesses transitioned to a remote-first approach. Yet the benefits of Zero Trust extend beyond changing how businesses think about and manage security. Forrester’s Zero Trust concept has grown in acceptance over the past year.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 3, 2021

With the shift to a more flexible pandemic workforce and the highly publicized Colonial Pipeline attack, cyber criminals introduced new – and updated – threats and tactics in campaigns targeting prominent sectors, such as Government, Financial Services and Entertainment. Ransomware Increases Dominance with Colonial Pipeline Impact.

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 31, 2023

growth in cybercrime, and during the COVID-19 pandemic when it surged 300%. C-suites across all industries, from traditional finance to the latest “unicorns” emerging in the fintech industry, are facing a formidable challenge: how to protect their business and customer data against growing cyber threats.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 1, 2020

It's difficult for many of us to think about post-coronavirus life while we are in the midst of the pandemic, but that's exactly what a futurist does. Viewing the pandemic through the lens of a futurist. Think about the pandemic as the great pause… the great accelerator, and finally, as a pressure cooker for innovation," Brown said.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the rooftops, industry analysts shout, “Move your backups offline and away from production environments! From the rooftops, industry analysts shout, “Move your backups offline and away from production environments!” Like any other digital machine, backup systems are vulnerable to data loss and compromise.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It recently announced it is making new, bold pushes relating to information security and privacy for 2021 and beyond. The goal for NIST moving forward is to help government agencies, private sector organizations, and many others adapt to the "New Normal" that so many people are talking about.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It might have dodged death by pandemic, but now retail faces assault from a virtual curbside crimewave. PhillipPessar CreativeCommons (Credit: CC BY 2.0). Reports of the retail industry’s death have been greatly exaggerated. But with new innovation comes fresh vulnerability. But fraudsters are lining up at the curb just like the rest of us.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 28, 2020

The panelists spoke on cloud migration, the state of the cloud during the pandemic, the DevOps pipeline, and more. Not everyone would describe cloud security as "very exciting," however, the four expert panelists who joined us on our series of SecureWorld Remote Sessions for a Q&A hour all certainly shared this sentiment.

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Digital transformation Cloud Migration Risk Cybersecurity 55

Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Over the last decade, K–12 schools have made great strides in employing technologies that facilitate learning—especially since the onset of pandemic-induced distance education. While students have long since returned to the classroom, digital platforms for instruction, collaboration, and homework continue as a mainstay.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 21, 2024

With the introduction of NIS2 , the European Union has moved beyond the GDPR’s focus on data protection measures to strengthen the entirety of the digital infrastructure that underpins critical sectors. This list will undergo regular review, with updates occurring at least every two years after that.

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McAfee

MAY 26, 2020

With children, reaching the age of two is usually the change from a beautiful newborn to a moving creature that has reached the terrible twos. Beyond enforcement challenges, the GDPR has gone through some major crises: first with Brexit and then with the outbreak of the COVID-19.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

Since being promoted to his current role in January 2016, he has been responsible for directing Aflac’s global security strategy and leading the information security, business continuity and disaster recovery functions across the company, prioritizing security initiatives and allocating resources based on appropriate risk assessments.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 16, 2021

According to the health care provider, the IT team quickly moved to ensure the security of the environment after the incident impacted access to certain systems. The health system operates a number of care sites, specialist offices, hospitals and clinics in Oklahoma. Here is the latest on some of the most recent.

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SecureList

JUNE 1, 2021

For over a year we’ve been living in a world gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Not only has the pandemic affected people’s lifestyles, it has also accelerated the development and implementation of technologies that make it easier for us to complete everyday and work-related tasks. In fact, they are the digital society.

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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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Cytelligence

JULY 28, 2020

A Virtual Private Network ( VPN) is a remote access tool used by most organization s to allow employees, vendors/partners and other stakeholders access to their company’s corporate networks and resources. At its simplest configuration, the technology may provide limited security beyond login and password requirements.

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Herjavec Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

For example: “I envision that one day, we will communicate wirelessly, and the wired telephone will become a thing of the past” – deliver this vision in a science fiction television show called Star Trek in 1970 (the communicator) and those who watched the series were thrilled and excited about this futuristic vision. Now, it’s obvious.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 28, 2021

Whether in life or in this industry, or whatever, Vamosi: Only quitting your job and moving to Africa for charitable work is really expensive. Whether in life or in this industry, or whatever, Vamosi: Only quitting your job and moving to Africa for charitable work is really expensive. Today Jinja is known for its tourism.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Ransomware has gone up 150% since the pandemic , and the U.S. Hackers can either move quickly during a ransomware attack or spend months poking around undetected to understand the network infrastructure before launching an attack. It just takes on lackadaisical click by an employee to install malware that results in ransomware.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 9, 2020

Copying and pasting this message achieved absolutely nothing beyond shining a spotlight on those who were prone to falling for hoaxes and disinformation campaigns. The latter, however, is right up my alley and understanding the hallmarks is valuable well beyond just the current 5G discussion. Just the social media echo chamber?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 14, 2022

The move to remote work and home networks accelerated the trend of patch management becoming far more distributed. The move to remote work and home networks accelerated the trend of patch management becoming far more distributed. In many cases, the patches had been available for months or, in a few cases, years. Wider Patching Range.

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Ransomware Risk Government IoT 107

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2021

But ultimately, moving towards a zero trust network environment is an organizational choice. In a few more words, zero trust means: within your organization’s network of resources, no one user, packet , or device should be trusted or granted greater privileges than required. Also Read: Top Zero Trust Security Solutions of 2021 .

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Firewall Network Security Architecture IoT 85

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 20, 2021

That’s a 400% increase compared to what investigators saw prior to the pandemic. It’s possible these sacrifices and distractions affected organizations’ digital security efforts beyond just incident response. Organizations suffered an unprecedented number of cyberattacks in 2020. Many of those security events bore fruit for attackers.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 29, 2021

Some observers say as much as a decade’s worth of digital transformation occurred across the IT industry since RSA Conference 2020 to keep businesses resilient throughout the pandemic. And the team at 451 Research shared their thoughts on how these trends are expected to reshape security in 2021 and beyond – click here to read it now.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

During the pandemic sales of the Home Fitness cycle peloton grew massively, given its popularity, it's natural that security researchers would want to take a look. During the pandemic sales of the Home Fitness cycle peloton grew massively, given its popularity, it's natural that security researchers would want to take a look.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 16, 2021

During the pandemic sales of the Home Fitness cycle peloton grew massively, given its popularity, it's natural that security researchers would want to take a look. During the pandemic sales of the Home Fitness cycle peloton grew massively, given its popularity, it's natural that security researchers would want to take a look.

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IT Security Guru

MARCH 19, 2021

There are millions of cyber crimes committed each year, far too many for under-resourced police forces to deal with. There are millions of cyber crimes committed each year, far too many for under-resourced police forces to deal with. For the average SME, cybersecurity can be a scary thing to think about. The reputational effects .

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Sometimes this malware can laterally move through the network. Segmentation technologies require setting policies for each network, managing which traffic can move between subnets and decreasing lateral movement. Also read: What is Network Security? Endpoint protection on all devices. Endpoint protection on all devices. Segmentation.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

With the adoption of cloud-based applications and services growing exponentially, especially as a result of the dramatic growth in remote work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than ever organizations need to protect their data and IT systems from cloud-based threats. Jump ahead to: Broadcom. Forcepoint. Palo Alto Networks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 21, 2021

Some of the largest American and European businesses reported two to four trillion dollars in lost revenue last year due to pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions. Between resource shortages and prolonged shipping delays, many multinational organizations are still grappling with the effects of supply chain disruptions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 21, 2021

Implementing a Zero Trust security model is more important now than ever due to the increased need for employees to work from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Implementing a Zero Trust security model is more important now than ever due to the increased need for employees to work from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

The pandemic tested businesses of all sizes and across all markets. On April 30, 2020, roughly one month after the world essentially shut down, Zoom joined the NASDAQ-100 stock index – among a small pool of tech companies deemed able to keep businesses and individuals alike connected amid the pandemic.

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Herjavec Group

JULY 29, 2021

While the world transitions out of the pandemic, cyber adversaries have continued to take advantage of the chaos – cyber attacks have skyrocketed and are only becoming more frequent, destructive, and sophisticated. Halfway through 2021 and it’s been a year unlike any other in cybersecurity ! The Rise of Ransomware.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 18, 2020

It was this week's bombshell cybersecurity news. Some of the most secret parts of the CIA appear to have worse cybersecurity than a typical small or medium-sized business (SMB). Senator Ron Wyden revealed that this has been known within the agency for years and well documented, yet "woefully lax" cybersecurity persists. That's the equivalent of 11.6

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

With money and resources lacking, that often leaves soft skills like clear communication and culture building as the only remaining tools these companies have for reducing their attack surface. With that, evidence shows, comes a far brighter spotlight on the role of the chief information security officer.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 29, 2022

In part one of our Black Hat USA 2022 NOC blog, we discussed building the network with Meraki: Adapt and Overcome. Building the Hacker Summer Camp network, by Evan Basta. The Cisco Stack’s Potential in Action, by Paul Fidler. Port Security, by Ryan MacLennan, Ian Redden and Paul Fiddler.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

In the biggest cyberattack to date on critical infrastructure in the U.S., Colonial Pipeline–sprawling 5,500 miles from Houston to New York City–halted its mainlines on Friday, May 7, when administrators detected advanced ransomware internally. will likely face days of uncertainty over its energy supply. Colonial attack route speculation.

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