Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Head Mare hacktivist group targets Russia and Belarus Zyxel fixed critical OS command injection flaw in multiple routers VMware fixed a code execution flaw in Fusion hypervisor U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Be in-line with insurance policies. For example, assign the cloud team to initially respond to incidents involving cloud assets with the cybersecurity team providing backup resources. The assignment of backup resources will also be useful as a contingency. See Best Backup Solutions for Ransomware Protection.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I'm kicking myself for not doing my own daily data backups. And you can certainly expect questions about your backups. See what chsalcedo wrote to the Kronos user group: "Where are the backups, can't the backups be restored? Are the backups stored in the same "cloud/space" as production, that doesn't make sense?

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Cisco Security

JULY 11, 2022

Downtime varied from minimal disruption (thanks to frequent data backups) to months upon months of recovery time . Just having a firewall alone will not stop all of the attacks, it’s just a matter of time before you experience a breach. In 2021: . Ransomware amounts varied from $100,000 to a whopping $40 million . billion .

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

With vulnerabilities rooted in unsuspecting users, the task of preventing these attacks means both staff training and a robust email and network security system that includes a strong backup program so you have a recent copy of your data that you can roll back to. Offline Backups. Screenshot example. Ransomware predictions.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

The costs of recovering from such incidents, especially for smaller organizations without cyber insurance, can be devastating. Having basic cyber hygiene Advanced technology is important, but basics like regular data backups, software updates, strong password policies, and multi-factor authentication are fundamental.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

I figured they [the school district] had firewalls and things of that nature. They followed the FBI’s advice to not pay the hackers and restored their system from backups they had kept for such an emergency. Other children had been successfully signed up for an electric company account.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Require phishing-resistant MFA for as many services as possible—particularly for webmail, VPNs, accounts that access critical systems, and privileged accounts that manage backups. Only store personal patient data on internal systems that are protected by firewalls, and ensure extensive backups are available if data is ever compromised.

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Responsible Cyber

APRIL 8, 2020

Businesses must also ensure they have secure backups of their critical data. Hence, since ransomware locks down files permanently (unless businesses want to cough up the ransom) backups are a crucial safeguard to recover from the hack. Lack of Cybersecurity Knowledge. SQL Injection.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 12, 2024

Employ Firewalls Firewalls act as a barrier between your website and potential attackers, especially if you work in industries that carry a lot of sensitive data including large corporations, insurance firms, medical practices and companies that offer bad credit loans. Test the backup and restore process periodically.

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Spinone

APRIL 30, 2020

Examples of sensitive information: Personally Identifiable Information (PII), like a driving license or full name; Personal Health Information (PHI), like medical history, test results, insurance, etc.; Is OneDrive a backup? OneDrive is not a backup tool. This question is tied with security more than it seems.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 27, 2021

O Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, também conhecido como HIPAA, é um padrão de conformidade que foi implementado depois que todas as informações relacionadas à saúde foram digitalizadas. O ponto crucial do ato é garantir que todas as informações ….

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

On the plus side, manual execution allows mature defense teams the ability to respond before the entire environment is encrypted, and allows for recovery from backups for specific folders instead of rebuilding the systems or environment from the ground up.". What is North Korea up to?

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

These are licenses, hardware, software, infrastructure capacity and bandwidth, backup and restoration, ancillary and monitoring systems, management systems, professional and managed services, and human resources. Apparent costs At the tip of the iceberg lies the monetary representation of the total cost of the solution.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 11, 2021

And Cloud service providers have made it a point to make their security as robust as possible, relieving businesses of many of the basics they struggle with, such as backups, single sign-on, encryption, firewall configuration, and consistent security updates—you name it.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Then look into whether your business needs insurance, especially if you offer a professional service like writing or design. A web application firewall (WAF) to keep hackers out. A solution that runs regular site backups and can restore website files and the database in case of a site crash. Set up your website.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. Backups aren’t working. Restoring from backup is certainly preferable to paying the bad guys for the damage they have inflicted. Ransomware today can actually look for backup files along with user data.

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Herjavec Group

JULY 20, 2021

Take inventory and test all system backups on a regular basis to ensure their viability to aid in recoveries in light of a ransomware attack. Also, keep in mind that some of those system backups may also become infected with malware during a breach. Be sure to enhance capabilities to validate backup integrity.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

Restricting firewall management access to trusted sources and, where possible, disabling internet access to the wide area network (WAN) management portal can further strengthen defenses. Implement and regularly review immutable backups to protect critical data from tampering or deletion.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Hunt and destroy or encrypt backups hosted in local and cloud networks as well as virtual machine snapshots. Some can’t afford not to pay, and some are covered by cyber insurance. Protect your backup systems. Does backup protect against ransomware? That’s why off-site backups are critically important for recovery.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Deny-lists (aka: blacklist) : Blocks specific websites or IP addresses by adding them to a list for firewalls to ignore; very difficult to manage at scale. Next generation (NGFW) or web and application firewalls (WAF) : Include DDoS protection within the large number of features and capabilities to protect network traffic.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption can also be found incorporated into a variety of network security and cloud security solutions, such as cloud access security brokers (CASB), next-generation firewalls (NGFW), password managers , virtual private networks (VPN), and web application firewalls (WAF). However, key rotation also adds complexity.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

In our examples, the clothing brand secures a segregated design team with physical locks on the doors, extra computer security to prevent digital theft, and a backup solution for their marketing data. Prepare incident response plans in advance for likely events (ransomware attack, firewall zero-day vulnerability, etc.)

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

A web application firewall (WAF). Additionally, you might have to rebuild some or all of your website from scratch if you don’t have a clean, recent backup to restore your site. Think of website security as insurance for your website. Q: If I get hacked, can’t I just upload the backup of my site?

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SecureList

JUNE 15, 2022

I will buy accounts for access to corporate VPNs or firewalls (FortiGate, SonicWall, PulseSecure, etc.) There is access to a network, admin-level access, direct connection to SSH servers, access to backups. million, and a large American insurer a whopping $40 million in ransom money. Screenshot translation. I have a small team.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Always keep your eyes open to control-rights of the senior IT managers or systems administrators with the authority to configure servers, firewalls, cloud storage, and file-sharing (or another network privilege). I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

His name is Omar Masri and he's a software engineer and also the founder and CEO of Mamari.io, which helps businesses overcome the cost and complexities of cybersecurity, preventing attacks while meeting compliance and cyber insurance requirements. You got hacked, you’re sort of just paid, your insurance covered it. How Mamori.io

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BH Consulting

JUNE 20, 2023

Similarly, a firewall, network access control, privileged identity management, SSL, TLS etc. incorrect names or addresses on an insurance policy. How much do you know about journaling, roll-back and remediation, mirroring, hot sites, cold sites, backups etc.? How much do you know about disaster recovery and business continuity?

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Spinone

MAY 22, 2020

Read also: The Cost of Data Breach: Calculate the ROI of Backup How Much Does Cybersecurity Cost? It this report, it is revealed that banks, insurance companies, investment managers, and other financial services companies spend between 6% and 14% of their annual information technology budget on cybersecurity, for an average of 10%.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In a year where ransomware has raised the alert levels everywhere, the go-to answer from many is redundancy through offline, remote backups – but are they enough? Backups are a critical component of any enterprise cybersecurity posture, but they are not an airtight strategy. Why Are Backups Critical? The Argument for Backups.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Basic cybersecurity defenses still apply: next generation firewalls (NGFW) , endpoint detection and response (EDR) platforms, employee cybersecurity training , patching. Data backup. The first is high-integrity, air-gapped data backups , which is the quickest and cheapest way to recover from an attack. BeforeCrypt.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 17, 2023

This can include measures such as firewalls , antivirus, access management and data backup policies, etc. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) HIPAA is a U.S. It applies to healthcare providers, insurance companies, and other organizations that handle PHI.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Initial Access Broker (IAB) activity increased by 16% during the reporting period, heavily targeting US-based organizations due to perceived financial capability from cyber insurance. To enhance security, organizations should block direct internet access to RDP services using firewalls and restrict access to internal networks and VPNs.

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SC Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

firewall rules, ACLs) in place to reduce the inherent risk. Are the backup and restore capabilities in place? Does the company have cyber insurance in place to pay a ransom? While patching systems in OT environments requires maintenance windows, attackers are most commonly targeting obsolete or unpatched Windows systems.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Initial Access Broker (IAB) activity increased by 16% during the reporting period, heavily targeting US-based organizations due to perceived financial capability from cyber insurance. To enhance security, organizations should block direct internet access to RDP services using firewalls and restrict access to internal networks and VPNs.

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DoublePulsar

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Even Wordpress backups, as apparently people build CRMs on Wordpress nowadays (I’m old). So even if you firewall off all incoming network traffic, if outgoing traffic is allowed they can still reach back to the server. They will do light recon on the network for things like backup systems. They dump data on Telegram.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 5, 2025

The domains of cybersecurity, cybercrime investigations, and cyber insurance will all be impacted. They should know which parts come from high-risk places and have backup plans ready. At the same time, nation-states may launch more cyberattacks as payback," said Kip Boyle , vCISO, Cyber Risk Opportunities LLC. The new 25% U.S.

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