Cisco Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

Here are the topics that I think will be top of mind in 2023, and what CISOs can do to prepare. Cyber insurance has become a newsworthy topic over the last 24 months, mainly due to the hardening of the market, as insurance products have become less profitable for underwriters and insurers’ costs have risen. CISO in the firing line.

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Cisco Security

MAY 10, 2022

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, an important topic to me personally and my leadership ethos. By addressing this critical topic, I want people to know that they are not alone, and we are here for you. Yet, mental health has not traditionally been a popular discussion topic. Why is this a thing . It’s ok to not be ok .

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Before diving into why learning these topics is necessary, I want to preface the next section by noting that there’s a lot to learn within each technology, and each one of these topics is a career field in its own right. Installing Linux and Apache Linux Basic usage. My name is Nick and I’m a Web Security Analyst with SiteLock.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 9, 2021

However, 61% of those respondents failed a basic security quiz. Considering how many businesses receive documents with sensitive information, that could be a worthwhile topic to cover in future training sessions. Those outcomes suggest there are some educational challenges to overcome. Room for Improvement Exists in Email Security.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When I was asked to write about the topic, I misunderstood the question and heard: “can you cover save the internet” and we all agreed that it might be too late for that. Firewalls on the other hand were considered a lot more important back then. Well, basically, because you always end up paying a price. Phishing emails.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Note: This isn’t my usual essay topic. Still, I want to put it on my blog. Six months into the pandemic with no end in sight, many of us have been feeling a sense of unease that goes beyond anxiety or distress. It’s a nameless feeling that somehow makes it hard to go on with even the nice things we regularly do.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Cybersecurity training has steadily gained traction in corporate settings over the past decade, and rightfully so. In response to continuing waves of data breaches and network disruptions, companies have made a concerted effort and poured substantial resources into promoting data security awareness among employees, suppliers and clients.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 6, 2023

Simultaneously, the topic of security resilience has risen up the C-level agenda and is now another focus for security teams. In other words, ride out the storm and come back better. So, are these complementary? Security resilience is the ability to withstand an incident and recover more strongly. Communication is key.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2020

Perhaps surprisingly, only 39 percent ranked programming as a critical or very important skill (I’ll come back to this in a moment). Thousands of people graduate from colleges and universities each year with cybersecurity or computer science degrees only to find employers are less than thrilled about their hands-on, foundational skills.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 20, 2021

To answer this and many, many other questions about NFTs, we spoke to three experts on three separate NFT topics: The basics of NFTs and the cryptocurrency-related technology behind them, the implied value of NFTs and why people are paying so much money for them, and the future of NFT’s both within the art world and beyond it.

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Anton on Security

JANUARY 12, 2022

This post is perhaps a little basic for true SIEM literati, but it covers an interesting idea about SIEM’s role in today’s security. I suspect that this topic will become even more fascinating in light of the appearance of XDR ?—?but but more on this a bit later… So let’s talk about what’s to the left and to the right of SIEM.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 8, 2021

While there are countless ways to interpret exactly how to “be cyber smart”—like adopting cybersecurity best practices around strong password use , two-factor authentication , and remote desktop protocol ports —we at Malwarebytes Labs wanted to take a step back and consider: How do you train people to be cyber smart in the first place?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Back in February, a colleague and I delivered a talk on website security at WordCamp Miami. If you want to check out our WordCamp Miami talk, “ Beyond the Basics: Building Security into Your Development Projects ,” and the corresponding slides are available online. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag!

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 16, 2018

A wide scope of topics – With any cybersecurity strategy, it is important to ensure all stakeholders, pieces and potential battlefronts are included in the scope and that it is understandable to everyone. Beyond the basic best practices – The U.S. The DHS needs to address what is being done to help minimize the risks of these assets.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 5, 2014

This week we look at the last topic in our series of “back to data privacy basics”: individual rights. Rights […].

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 19, 2018

This year, I felt like there was more emphasis on getting back to the basics. Not to say that there weren’t sessions on these important topics—but these hot security topics were weaved into more general best practices sessions. Back to basics. I know you’re thinking, what about “GDPR”?

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Notice Bored

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Yesterday I blogged about the "access control" topic-specific policy example in ISO/IEC 27002:2022. These are exactly the kinds of controls that I look for during computer and office installation audits, and it's surprising how often I find basic physical security issues in otherwise well managed companies.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2022

In our “Back to School” series we will talk about several types of devices you may encounter. The basics. With that in mind, here are some security basics that you should attend to just as you would on any Windows computer: Apply security updates promptly. Start backing up. This one is about Windows devices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

One of the most basic elements of gamification is the use of visual aids. Whether the rewards are simply in-game points or real-life prizes like gift cards, the possibility of receiving something back for their hard work is a good incentive for employees to not only do the training, but pay attention and perform well. Visual Aids.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES divya Tue, 02/28/2023 - 06:31 CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES an evolution of money and payments CBDC, or Central Bank Digital Currency, is a trending topic in the financial industry. Let's examine the basics of CBDC and its impact on the economy.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This past weekend we were back in San Diego as Gold Sponsors at WordCamp San Diego. It was great to be back in this beautiful city under the palm trees and sunshine with hundreds of my closest WordPress SoCal-pals (current AND future)! I had a blast at our sponsor booth, as well as attending and speaking at my first #WCSD.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Alex mentions this to Sam but decides to eat the meal anyways, rather than send it back. Almost everything we do, from forming friendships to deciding who leads the country, can be traced back to communication. Of course, behavior is a multi-faceted and extremely in-depth topic that can’t always be dissected cleanly.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

You may well get it back, but you likely won’t be able to put any timeline to that process. As more services move ever cloud-wards, so too do thoughts by attackers as to how best exploit them. With all that juicy data sitting on someone else’s servers, it’s essential that they run a tight ship.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 14, 2023

The second was that cyber security is not a topic to interest a CEO but cyber resilience certainly is. The second was that cyber security is not a topic to interest a CEO but cyber resilience certainly is. This observation led me to another topic. Whereas CISOs saw a definite improvement Business Leaders were not so sure.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 21, 2022

As such, Metaverse cybersecurity is a big topic at the moment. However, some are also concerned that the Metaverse is developing in a dangerously uncontrolled way. Here, we’ll take you through the situation as it stands for businesses, and predict some of the most important measures you can take to protect your business in the Metaverse.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 7, 2023

This is Part 1 of a three-part series tackling the topic of generative AI tools. As technologists, we are not only aware of but understand this basic concept. In the realm of generative AI tools, such as Language Learning Models (LLMs), it is essential to take a comprehensive approach toward the development and deployment.

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SecureList

JULY 11, 2022

In terms of topics and techniques, text-based fraud can be divided into several types: Dating scams. E-mail scammers typically combine social engineering with technical skills to bypass spam filters and persuade the recipient to reply. Their main tool and method of persuasion is old-fashioned text. And it works surprisingly often. Statistics.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This year’s WordCamp Sacramento was full of great speakers, interesting topics and lots of enthusiastic attendees. At the core of his talk, he recommends thinking of your website as the mothership: everything traces back to it. Your content may live in many places across the web, but it all links back to your website in some way.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

These were chat-based communities that sprang up around various interests. One of those interests that took off was computer security. And getting invited to join meant you had to know someone to get the phone number to dial in. MODEM SOUND]. On these BBSs no one would know your true identity or age; you’d only be judged by what you wrote.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 2, 2021

These were chat-based communities that sprang up around various interests. One of those interests that took off was computer security. And getting invited to join meant you had to know someone to get the phone number to dial in. MODEM SOUND]. On these BBSs no one would know your true identity or age; you’d only be judged by what you wrote.

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Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Not only that, but they’ve decided that the best way for you to get it back is to pay them for it! So, there we have 2 common vishing scams at their most basic. At Social-Engineer, LLC (SECOM), we define social engineering as “any act that influences a person to take an action that may or may not be in their best interest.”

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BH Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Ransomware victims shouldn’t use their insurance firms to pay to get their data back because they’re inadvertently funding organised crime. Bugtraq, a security mailing list that dates back to 1993, will live on. That was the harsh message from Ciaran Martin, former head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre. Introducing BH TV.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

BlueNoroff is the name of an APT group coined by Kaspersky researchers while investigating the notorious attack on Bangladesh’s Central Bank back in 2016. The goal of the infiltration team is to build a map of interactions between individuals and understand possible topics of interest.

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 8, 2024

Later, back in their rooms, they would brag to their fellow prisoners about all the information they had managed to keep secret. There was a really cool talk on AI, Automation, and ChatGPT, expertly delivered by our Shelley Booker, along with what turned out to be my favourite topic “Navigating the Spectrum of Intelligence”.

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Security Through Education

JULY 7, 2021

I’ve seen threads with the following topics; tips on how to recognize and respond to manipulative behavior, how to communicate through difficult conversations, and other, similar posts. Someone once asked me to come up with some positive predictions I see unfolding in the social engineering world. And, through that, the world itself.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Back in 2018, they bought $50,000 in cryptocurrency and then locked it safely within their Trezor One wallet. That’s what you do, you put cryptocurrency in either a digital or a hardware wallet, the latter of which is basically a dongle. Fortunately, in this episode, we’re discussing vulnerabilities in both.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In short, we speak at WordCamps because we feel passionate about a topic, and passionate about giving back to the WordPress community. moments in our sessions, asking questions that lead to discussions on topics we’d never considered before, and presenting the work that we’ve dedicated much of our blood sweat and tears to.

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