The State of Security

JANUARY 13, 2021

In a previous blog, I discussed securing AWS management configurations by combating six common threats with a focus on using both the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Amazon Web Services Foundations benchmark policy along with general security best practices.

Internet 101

Internet Internet Phishing 101

The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 17, 2023

To get network protection where it needs to be, legacy cybersecurity vendors have begun reconstituting traditional security toolsets. The overarching goal is to try to derive a superset of very dynamic, much more tightly integrated security platforms that we’ll very much need, going forward. Related: The rise of security platforms.

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Authentication Mobile Encryption Internet 208

The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

a Lehi,Utah-based supplier of digital certificates, found 71 percent of global organizations already see the emergence of quantum processing power as a material security threat. Their trepidation is focused on the potential undermining of a core security component of classical computing systems: encryption. Germany and Japan.

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Encryption Cyber Risk Architecture IoT 164

Security Boulevard

JUNE 22, 2023

What is Tier Zero — Part 1 Tier Zero is a crucial group of assets in Active Directory (AD) and Azure. Its purpose is to protect the most critical components by creating a security boundary and preventing a complete compromise. We had a model for managing secure access starting in 2012 but we had no way of verifying implementation.

Backups 59

Backups Accountability Passwords Authentication 59

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2020

Every single byte of data that's been loaded into the system in recent years has come from someone who freely offered it in order to improve the security landscape for everyone. The very second blog post on that tag was about how I used Azure Table Storage to make it so fast and so cheap. Let me explain why and how.

Passwords 364

Passwords Architecture Data breaches Internet 364

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Trillion by 2023 , data security challenges are further poised to go up – unless organizations take a conscious decision to implement a cohesive data protection strategy at an organization level that shuns the traditional siloed approach towards data security. Ground Reality: The Problem of Plenty!

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Digital transformation Encryption Data breaches Big data 104

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Network security creates shielded, monitored, and secure communications between users and assets. Securing the expanding, sprawling, and sometimes conflicting collection of technologies that make up network security provides constant challenges for security professionals.

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Network Security Firewall Penetration Testing Encryption 84