The Last Watchdog

MAY 5, 2022

Back up your data and secure your backups in an offline location. About the essayist: Den Jones, CSO at Banyan Security , which supplies s imple, least-privilege, multi-cloud application access technologies. If the data is online, then it’s accessible to bad actors and just waiting to be encrypted for ransom. Food for thought, eh!

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 10, 2022

CSO spoke with security leaders, researchers, and analysts about this significant issue and the implications for CISOs, businesses, and the wider sector. Ending use of Russian security and tech products. However, from a security-related standpoint, it’s much murkier,” says Shawn Smith, researcher and director of infrastructure at nVisium.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2024

Dimitri Chichlo , CSO, BforeAI Chichlo Our networks remain fragile because of interdependence and the assumption that technology always works. Dylan Owen , CISO, Nightwing Owen Now is a good time to review incident response plans and identify any weak spots, like missing backups.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

It is not a book for the CSO. Part I is basic cyber 'hygiene' for the exec, including actionable steps like turn on updates and backups and two factor auth. (I And it doesn't fall into the jargon trap either in security or management. It is a book for executives, including, but not limited, to CEOs. Part II is what to do.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 14, 2024

If you would like to learn more about PQC, SecureWorld recently hosted a Remote Sessions broadcast in which Keyfactor CSO Chris Hickman offered an in-depth primer on PQC fundamentals for practical application. You may view the session on-demand here. Follow SecureWorld News for more stories related to cybersecurity.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

Password management products are more secure, but they have vulnerabilities as shown by the recent LastPass breach that exposed an encrypted backup of a database of saved passwords. Storing passwords in the browser and sending one-time access codes by SMS or authenticator apps can be bypassed by phishing.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The third party was able to gain access to our AWS backup server that housed Teqtivity code and data files related to Teqtivity customers.". In July of this year, Uber confessed to a cover-up of the 2016 data breach with the help of its former chief security officer (CSO), Joe Sullivan. Sullivan was charged with obstruction of justice.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

In May, backup appliance supplier ExaGrid paid a $2.6 Colonial Pipeline paid $4.43 million to its ransomware attackers in May 2021, although in a subsequent operation, the U.S Department of Justice (DOJ) seized $2.3 million of that amount. million ransom to cybercriminals that targeted the company with Conti ransomware.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2021

As part of this, many organizations use two or more clouds to meet business needs such as disaster recovery, data backup, application resiliency, and global coverage. Organizations are looking to realize the promise of cloud computing, including faster time to market, increased responsiveness, and cost reductions.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 27, 2022

Doing so requires multiple backups, cloud resources, and tested backup and recovery processes. Whenever I am dealing with cloud services or remote consultants, the one thing that gives me the greatest pause is keeping track of and protecting credentials. Then disaster strikes. Your servers are hit with ransomware or hacked.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

Have a backup plan and tested recovery process. Some might argue that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is the best way to protect a firm, but I’d argue that having a tested backup and recovery process would be better. Too often businesses overlook having a backup and a tested recovery process.

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CSO Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2021

While this is a severe blow to the botnet, whose estimated size is over 2 million computers, it's unlikely to be its demise because Glupteba has a backup command-and-control (C&C) mechanism that relies on the Bitcoin blockchain. This provides it with resilience against takedown attempts. To read this article in full, please click here

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Adam Shostack

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

It is not a book for the CSO. Part I is basic cyber ‘hygiene’ for the exec, including actionable steps like turn on updates and backups and two factor auth. (I And it doesn’t fall into the jargon trap either in security or management. It is a book for executives, including, but not limited, to CEOs.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

These vulnerabilities represent significant dangers for end users and organizations — from the remote code execution vulnerabilities in Veeam Backup & Replication and Apache OFBiz to the severe access control issues in SonicWall and Google Android. Other significant problems include RCE, credential theft, and MFA bypass.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

Researchers warn that documents hosted in the cloud might not be out of reach for ransomware actors and that while they're harder to permanently encrypt due to the automated backup features of cloud service, there are still ways to make life hard for organizations.

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CSO Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

Smart infrastructure vendor Nebulon today announced that its latest offerings provide newly hardened backups for configuration and snapshots, in an effort to add a new tool to the antiransomware arsenal for Linux systems.

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CSO Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

Today, most enterprises have moved beyond a “one cloud fits all” approach and are using more than one cloud to meet business needs, such as disaster recovery, data backup, application resiliency, and global coverage.

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CSO Magazine

JULY 7, 2022

Under the deal, the pair will integrate Splashtop's secure remote access software with Acronis's Cyber Protect Cloud, a backup and cybersecurity platform. Acronis and Splashtop announced a partnership Wednesday that promises to make troubleshooting security problems on endpoints easier.

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CSO Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

This leads the system to be unbootable and unrepairable without a full reinstall or recovery from a full backup of the system. As Microsoft noted in its blog, “The malware in this case overwrites the MBR [master boot record] with no mechanism for recovery.”

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Backup and data management vendor Cohesity has started to preview a new ransomware protection SaaS product called Datahawk, which leverages AI and a host of other capabilities to help companies defend their data against bad actors. There are three core components to Datahawk, according to Cohesity.

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Errata Security

JULY 19, 2020

The CEO can't hire an excellent CSO unless they have enough competency to judge the qualifications of the CSO, and enough competency to hold the CSO accountable for the job they are doing. They simply wipe it and restore from backup. All this is a tradeoff.

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McAfee

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It is not only the CISO, CSO or CIO’s responsibility to care and do the right thing. The company should also perform frequent backups of key data and shut off old servers and virtual machines that aren’t being used anymore. Everyone is responsible and accountable.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work. That said, empower your employees with an effective and simple Data Loss Protection solution , allowing Automated backup and restore, deletion control , smooth migration, version control , activity reports, etc.,

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 8, 2021

It even took steps to make it harder for victims to recover from data backups. Dom Glavach, CSO and chief strategist, CyberSN. The hackers were thus able to deposit the malware and run a series of commands to hide the malicious activity from the malware-scanning tools. Anthony Merry, senior director of product management, Sophos.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Bad actors can now rather easily use ransomware to infiltrate your network and render all forms of traditional backup useless. Today, what is required is an elevation in backup strategy from basic to unbreakable. Today’s cyber criminals are attacking backups first, and then once under their control, coming after production data.

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