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Top 12 Firewall Best Practices to Optimize Network Security

eSecurity Planet

It simplifies operations by lowering the chance of configuration conflicts and misconfigurations or oversights that could affect security. Enable automatic updates in the administration interface and schedule security checks accordingly. Without them, incident recovery may take longer, exposing the network to further risks.

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Cybersecurity Management Lessons from Healthcare Woes

eSecurity Planet

Table of Contents Toggle Recent Healthcare Attacks & Breaches 5 Key Cybersecurity Management Lessons to Learn Bottom Line: Learn Healthcare’s Lessons Before Suffering Pain Recent Healthcare Attacks & Breaches Large breaches affected over 88 million individuals in the USA in 2023, a 60% increase from 2022.

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Top 7 Cloud Storage Security Issues & Risks (+ Mitigations)

eSecurity Planet

Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) also reveals that inside actors were responsible for 83% of 2022 data breaches. Do regular audits and alerts: Enhance security by conducting regular audits, monitoring activity, and setting up alerts. Backup files: Regularly back-up public cloud resources.

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How Secure Is Cloud Storage? Features, Risks, & Protection

eSecurity Planet

When assessing the overall security of cloud storage and choosing a solution tailored to your business, it helps to determine its features, potential risks, security measures, and other considerations. How to Secure Cloud Storage Data While cloud storage has many advantages, you must address its weak points to secure data.

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5 Linux malware families SMBs should protect themselves against

Malwarebytes

There’s no shortage of reasons why an SMB might use Linux to run their business: There are plenty of distros to choose from, it’s (generally) free, and perhaps above all — it’s secure. But unfortunately, there’s more to Linux security than just leaning back in your chair and sipping piña coladas. 024BTC (~$720 USD as of June 2022).

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From Caribbean shores to your devices: analyzing Cuba ransomware

SecureList

It exploits vulnerabilities in software used by the victim companies: mostly known issues, such as the combination of ProxyShell and ProxyLogon for attacking Exchange servers, and security holes in the Veeam data backup and recovery service. KK.exe : malware known as Burntcigar.

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The Pain of Double Extortion Ransomware

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Ransomware attacks have become much more dangerous and have evolved beyond basic security defenses and business continuity techniques like next-gen antivirus and backups. At this point, typical defenses for ransomware, such as backups and restoration of systems and data, do not apply.