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Protecting Oil and Gas Industry Infrastructure: Strategies for Resilience

SecureWorld News

Digital transformation: The integration of IoT, SCADA systems, and advanced analytics has increased operational efficiency but also expanded the attack surface. Multi-factor authentication (MFA): MFA ensures that access to critical systems is granted only after verifying user credentials through multiple channels.

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BEST PRACTICES: Resurgence of encrypted thumb drives shows value of offline backups — in the field

The Last Watchdog

What’s happened is this: Digital transformation has raced forward promoting high-velocity software innovation, with only a nod to security. Kim: Yes, companies want assurance that they have an offline backup, yet they also want to be able to monitor what people are doing with those backups, as well.

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New Cybersecurity Rules for Financial Institutions in New York State Take Effect November 1, 2024

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Update the incident response plan to include procedures such as the internal process for responding to cybersecurity events, recovery from backups, and conducting a root cause analysis after an event. Conduct annual tests of the incident response plan, disaster recovery plan, and backup systems.

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Dodging the Cyber Bullet: Early Signs of a Ransomware Attack

IT Security Guru

Cybercriminals often encrypt live data and demand ransom for access, corrupting backups and turning off security software. Moreover, an absence of multi-factor authentication (MFA) means that should a password be compromised; attackers can move laterally within systems to perform reconnaissance with ease.

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The Rise of Non-Ransomware Attacks on AWS S3 Data

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Instead, it logs a hash-based message authentication code (HMAC) in AWS CloudTrail, which verifies the encryption request that happened but cannot be used to reconstruct the encryption key. Instilling a Sense of Urgency As a result, the company loses access to its data unless it has a backup.

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Fifteen Best Practices to Navigate the Data Sovereignty Waters

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategies All data protection regulations will require organizations to have backup and disaster recovery strategies to be resilient against security incidents such as ransomware attacks.

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Fifteen Best Practices to Navigate the Data Sovereignty Waters

Security Boulevard

Backup and Disaster Recovery Strategies All data protection regulations will require organizations to have backup and disaster recovery strategies to be resilient against security incidents such as ransomware attacks.