Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The size of the cyber risk to companies cannot be underestimated. To indicate the size of the cyber risk to companies, there is, on average, a cyber-attack every 39 seconds, which does not mean that every attack is successful, but that there is an attempt to access companies’ computer systems with that frequency.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

We first read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked some newly-registered users to provide the passwords to their email accounts to confirm their identity … this is absurd. Definitively I can tell you that this is an awful period for Facebook and its users.

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Spinone

APRIL 13, 2020

In this cyber security guide , we’ll help you to learn more about risks and cyber security best practices for remote work. Cyber Risks of Remote Work For many organizations, the global coronavirus epidemic played a significant role in their decision to let employees work out of office.

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Spinone

JANUARY 3, 2019

This G Suite Backup and G Suite Security Guide covers 9 burning-hot cloud security topics. The following articles will provide insights into practical cybersecurity, each is a simple step-by-step walkthrough to solve common problems using G Suite backup and G Suite security best practices.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Related: Adopting an assume-breach mindset With that in mind, Last Watchdog invited the cybersecurity experts we’ve worked with this past year for their perspectives on two questions that all company leaders should have top of mind: •What should be my biggest takeaway from 2023, with respect to mitigating cyber risks at my organization?

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Hacker Combat

JUNE 2, 2022

Employees should undergo frequent cyber security awareness programs to keep them up to date on the latest cyber risks and how to recognize an attack in its early stages. To detect attacks, scan all emails and conduct regular data backups. Here are 6 preventive measures that companies can adopt to keep hackers at bay.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The hackers inserted malicious code into updates of SolarWinds’ Orion IT monitoring software, putting at risk thousands of customers that had downloaded the updates (though the actual number of businesses hacked through the Sunburst malware was fewer than 100). Also read: Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection.

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Spinone

JULY 16, 2020

This role has the “ultimate” access and managing rights in your organization’s Google Workspace account and can do everything. This role involves managing every aspect of users’ (but not admins’) accounts, like changing a user name, password, or security settings, deleting accounts, etc.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

While industry experts discourage paying ransoms for fear of encouraging this type of attack, many cities without reliable backup or backups that are encrypted are left with no option but to pay the ransom to get back up and running. Identifying attackers is rare, so it is difficult to make someone accountable.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 6, 2021

Moreover, cyber resilience solutions and packages can be custom-built and personalised to fit the needs of the customer, including endpoint protection, ongoing end-user training, threat intelligence, and backup and recovery.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Advanced features include login capture, secure notes, Dark Web Monitoring to alert you of potential breaches, and Single Sign-On (SSO) for easier access to multiple accounts. Get the Dashlane Extension Step 3: Set Up Your Account Just click on the add sign button below to add a new login.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Lack of Awareness Many small business owners remain unaware of the specific cyber risks targeting their businesses. Strong, unique passwords, password management tools, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) can significantly reduce this risk. Many small businesses overlook regular backups, risking permanent data loss.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

We'll carefully walk you through a tested, systematic process for identifying, assessing, and managing cyber risks. You'll learn about the importance of thorough risk assessments, real-time threat intelligence, and effective incident response plans.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key Points Phishing incidents rose during the reporting period (August 1 to October 31, 2024), accounting for 46% of all customer incidents. Cloud services alerts increased by 20% due to rising cloud account usage, while malicious file alerts in phishing attacks remain high, exploiting users’ tendencies to open files.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Prevent the downloading or sharing of data between company controlled public cloud resources and an employee’s personal public cloud accounts. Privileged account use monitoring and alerting to help audit the use of privileged accounts and alert based on predefined thresholds. Is the usage expected?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Security infrastructure and redundancy: Check the vendor’s data centers, network architecture, backup and disaster recovery plans, and uptime assurances.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. This concealed their attack until the environment was encrypted and backups were sabotaged. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Let’s take a look at key insights on cybersecurity risks for CEOs and management teams. Understanding Cyber Risk Management Even if a CEO does not have a background in IT or experience with IT infrastructure in general, they must be aware of the risk and impact of cybersecurity or lack thereof on their business.

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Centraleyes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

They emphasize regulatory risks and compliance requirements. Cyber Risk Register Template Cyber risk templates, or information security risk register templates focus on managing risks related to information security and cyber threats, helping organizations protect digital assets and respond effectively to incidents.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In its modern iteration, cyber liability insurance mitigates the losses and business costs associated with cyber incidents and resulting downtime. CyberCube, a company specializing in quantifying cyber risk, estimates that the U.S. standalone cyber insurance market could reach $45 billion in premiums by 2034.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 3, 2024

To enhance Europe’s resilience against existing and emerging cyber threats, the NIS2 Directive introduces new requirements and obligations for organizations in four key areas: risk management, corporate accountability, reporting obligations, and business continuity.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

Coupled with the current pandemic and the cybersecurity threats that have been very prevalent and growing in recent years such as ransomware, there are many different cyber risk types n 2020 that your business needs to prepare for. What are the types of cyber security threats? First of all, what is a cyberattack?

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

It is vital for any enterprise landscape to ensure viable, open, and reliable corporate communications – fostering innovation and economic prosperity, with respect to safeguarding against disruption and serious cyber risk perception. What are the benefits of cyber security awareness trainings?

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 28, 2022

It’s a roller coaster of a time to lead, as CIOs, CISOs and CTOs are having to deal with more users, data, devices, technologies, connectivity, mobility, regulations, risks, and threats than they care to. Cyber risks top worldwide business concerns in 2022. But it’s not all doom and gloom.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 15, 2023

Reduce business threats Key Management as a Service can help organizations reduce cyber risks and address various threats to business and data security. Secure Key Storage: KMaaS provides secure storage for encryption keys, protecting them from unauthorized access and providing backup and disaster recovery capabilities.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 21, 2024

Conduct assessments to improve visibility into control effectiveness and cyber maturity levels within your organization. Identify areas with insufficient visibility and potential cyber risks. Evaluate control effectiveness and cyber maturity levels. Focus on immediate fixes to enhance cybersecurity levels.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In the spirit of empowering people and organisations to protect themselves from cyber risks, we’re going to look back at three of the main threats from the past year: ransomware , data breaches , and phishing. We’ll cover lessons to learn to prevent them from becoming risks to your business. Back up your data regularly.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The clients will continue to benefit from their investments in cloud security management products with rich cyber risk management tools, while leveraging unique and innovative SaaS data protection solutions. 2017 was another year of continuous progress and achievement for Spinbackup.

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Spinone

JANUARY 14, 2019

Google invested in migration capabilities that solve the problems of legacy file-share and content management habits; admin control retention over data and Team Drives content; seamless migration to Team Drives , continuity and integrity of enterprise business processes, and cyber risk management tools.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key Points Phishing incidents rose during the reporting period (August 1 to October 31, 2024), accounting for 46% of all customer incidents. Cloud services alerts increased by 20% due to rising cloud account usage, while malicious file alerts in phishing attacks remain high, exploiting users’ tendencies to open files.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 14, 2024

However, every partnership you make introduces a degree of risk that must be accounted for. Examples include: Privacy concerns Digital security Business continuity Regulatory compliance Physical security Risk is a hot topic in the business sector. Centraleyes’s risk management platform revolutionizes Vendor Risk Management.

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Spinone

JANUARY 12, 2019

LinkedIn accounts of executives can also prove fruitful in gathering information about executives. Organizations looking to protect themselves against CEO-fraud do well to consider a multi-faceted approach to securing their data and internal processes as well as cyber risk management.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

If I’m a CISO and I come to the board with a cyber risk that will cost $60,000, but the entity can self insure for a few million, it can simply absorb the risk costs rather than address the security issue.”. Sehgal sees a current shift in these processes, as the costs of attacks increase.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With many companies improving their incident response and ability to restore services through the use of backups, it is possible that the intentional breach of data is actually the more impactful side of a double extortion attack; according to research from 2022, the average cost of a data breach was USD 4.35

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

As for the motive behind NotPetya, the program was initially transmitted through Ukrainian accounting software , which suggests that it was intended to target Ukrainian critical infrastructure. Scholars know what they think works: strong encryption, multifactor authentication, regular software updates, and automated backups.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Cybersecurity risk assessment with an effective Incident Response Plan lowers costs of cybersecurity events Why perform a cyber risk assessment? Performing a cybersecurity risk assessment translates into millions of dollars in cost savings in terms of cyber breach damage control.

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