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

eSecurity Planet

Downtime limits incident response, increases the risk of data breaches, and can be used as leverage for DDoS attacks. Collaborate with external cloud security specialists or managed service providers to enhance internal capabilities. Backup files: Regularly back-up public cloud resources.

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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Design robust server architecture to improve redundancy and capacity for resilience against failure or DDoS attacks. Implement rate limiting to harden against DDoS and DNS tunneling attacks. Relatively high frequency backups (daily or at least weekly). Local backups for quick access. Offline backups to prevent deletion.

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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. DDoS Attacks DDoS attacks flood cloud services with traffic, overwhelming capacity and causing service outages.

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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. Cloud Snooper. How it works.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

Vendor reports note huge volume of attacks on local and public infrastructure, such as: CrowdStrike: Monitored hacktivist and nation-state distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks related to the Israli-Palestinian conflict, including against a US airport. 50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers.

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How to Secure the 5 Cloud Environment Types

eSecurity Planet

DDoS Attacks How they occur: Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) attacks overload cloud and network systems, interrupting access and triggering service disruptions. DDoS Attacks How they occur: With a greater cloud attack surface to defend, DDoS attacks can be harder to prevent. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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Vulnerability Recap 5/27/24 – Google, Microsoft & GitLab Fixes

eSecurity Planet

If your system is already exposed to a DDoS attack, explore our guidelines on how to perform DDoS attack prevention in three stages. May 22, 2024 Veeam Addresses Vulnerabilities in Backup & Replication Update Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass, privilege escalation, NTLM relay attack, and more.

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