eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

For a security technology that’s only a few years old, microsegmentation is catching on quickly. According to a new report from edge security vendor Byos, 88 percent of cybersecurity leaders believe microsegmentation is essential to achieving zero trust security, and 83 percent are currently leveraging microsegmentation in some form.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

The 2022 ThreatLabz State of Ransomware report breaks down a year’s worth of intelligence from a variety of sources, including over 200B daily transactions and 150M daily blocked threats across the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, and shows that ransomware is becoming even more attractive to criminals. PYSA/Mespinoza. AvosLocker.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Most of the top incident threats mirror last year’s report, with an increase in phishing, ransomware and credential theft in the wake of the worldwide pandemic and workforce’s rapid adoption of remote work. The DBIR analyzed 29,207 security incidents with 5,258 confirmed breaches, up a third from last year’s report.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This bad news from UScellular follows similarly troubling disclosures from networking software supplier SolarWinds and from email security vendor Mimecast. The attackers thus gained remote access to the CRM systems running on the store computers – and a foothold to access customers’ wireless phone numbers and associated account information.

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Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 10, 2021

Security leaders are always on the lookout for funding sources to support their security programs. Often, security budgets are constrained to an unacceptable degree — and getting creative with where to look for funds is part of the leader’s job description. When this happens, what is a security leader to do?

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The state of cyber liability insurance The topic of cyber liability insurance is full of datapoints, statistics and graphs all showing upward trajectories. Security Magazine reports less than 10% of companies with fewer than 50 employees have dedicated financial resources for cybersecurity. But what are the risks with this approach?

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Every year as December winds down and the New Year approaches, I reflect and look back at the year I’m leaving behind. This forced security leaders and enterprise executives to assess their information security operations and overall cybersecurity posture to ensure their organizations were ready to face the challenges ahead.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Authentication and access management increasingly perceived as core to Zero Trust Security. While many consider that remote access to corporate resources and data as the key disruption, security teams had to face many more challenges. State of Multi-Factor Authentication. Tue, 09/14/2021 - 05:52.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Whether you’re operating a global enterprise network or a small family business, your network’s security needs to be optimized with tools, teams, and processes to protect customer data and valuable business assets. Also read: What is Network Security?

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2021

Zero trust has gone from new idea to buzzword and industry paradigm in a decade. As organizations look to strengthen their network security or update their cybersecurity defenses, the gospel of zero trust awaits. . But ultimately, moving towards a zero trust network environment is an organizational choice.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Security resilience requires strong, user-friendly defenses. The concept of zero trust is not a new one, and some may even argue that the term is overused. Adopting a zero trust model can dramatically reduce this risk by eliminating implicit trust. Strengthen security resilience with zero trust.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

Twenty-nine per cent of incidents reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) were attributed to ransomware between July and December of 2022, making it the most reported type of security breach of the year. Show me the money! The number-one reported motive for a cyber breach is financial gain, and ransomware 3.0

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 2, 2021

As we look back at 2020 and the impacts of the pandemic that have carried over into 2021, it is important for organizations to look back and reflect what they did right and how they could improve their processes to become more resilient. Organizations not prepared to meet the data security challenges of the pandemic.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The accelerating digital transformation of organizations around the world and the adoption of a hybrid workforce have exposed essential systems and sensitive data to rising cyber threats. It advises that organizations should consider “deploying phishing-resistant tokens such as smart cards and FIDO2 security keys.”.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 19, 2022

As the modern workforce becomes increasingly mobile and enterprises branch out and grow, software-defined wide area networks ( SD-WAN ) have become a popular choice in the evolution of networking. However, with all the benefits SD-WAN provides organizations, it also opens the door for a new set of security challenges. What is SD-WAN?

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SecureWorld News

MAY 29, 2020

The rapid shift to remote work during the global pandemic has increased data security risk in organizations and provided new opportunities for data exfiltration. Who are the data security panelists? Director of Client Security, Equifax Canada. How has data security changed from the Insider Threat? "As

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Network security protects and monitors the links and the communications within the network using a combination of hardware, software, and enforced policies. Networks and network security comes in a wide range of complexity to fit the wide range of needs. For a more general overview consider reading: What is Network Security?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As public cloud adoption continues to accelerate, organizations need to hold up their end of the shared responsibility model to protect against cloud security threats. This highlights a key problem; many organizations are still using legacy network-based security technologies to protect cloud environments.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 27, 2020

Related: The Golden Age of cyber spying A new book by Dr. Chase Cunningham — Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies — accomplishes this in a compelling, accessible way. It’s difficult to convey the scope and scale of cyber attacks that take place on a daily basis, much less connect the dots between them.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Information security products , services, and professionals have never been in higher demand, making for a world of opportunities for cybersecurity startups. With evolving attack methodologies due to machine learning, quantum computing, and sophisticated nation-state hackers, security startups are receiving record funding.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Over the past year, we have established a comfortable hybrid/remote work environment that is expected to be the norm post-COVID-19. Thankfully, cybersecurity professionals everywhere are working on inventing new tech and improving upon legacy technology solutions to maintain pace with these criminals who threaten our data security.

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