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Story of the Year: global IT outages and supply chain attacks

SecureList

was used by tens of millions of websites approximately 4% of all sites on the internet which highlights the severity of the incident, whose full impact is yet to be determined. It is a critical tool in various fields, including system administration, development, and cybersecurity. Why does it matter?

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

In the early days of the Internet, coders created new programs for the sake of writing good code, then made it available for anyone to use and extend, license free. However, once the commercial Internet took hold, developers began leveraging open-source components far and wide in proprietary systems.

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MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

The Last Watchdog

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. Somehow SMBs must keep pace competitively, while also tamping down the rising risk of suffering a catastrophic network breach. SMBs today face a daunting balancing act.

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Can smart cities be secured and trusted?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Now, OT networks are moving to more standard transmission control protocol/internet protocol (IP) networks, and digital information monitoring is needed to meet increasing energy demand, regulatory compliance, and business efficiency requirements. All these measures are considered best practices for data protection.

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Spotlight Podcast: CSO Chris Walcutt on Managing 3rd Party OT Risk

The Security Ledger

In this Spotlight Podcast, host Paul Roberts talks with Chris Walcutt, the CSO of DirectDefense about the rising cyber threats facing operational technology (OT) and how organizations that manage OT - including critical infrastructure owners can best manage increased cyber risks to OT environments. Read the whole entry. »

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The Challenges in Building Digital Trust

SecureWorld News

In the 1980s, the internet as we know it today was called ARPANET and used mostly by researchers and the military. System administrators didn't bother locking down their systems, because the possibility of bad actors using them didn't really cross their minds.

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Cyber Security Awareness and Risk Management

Spinone

VoIP phishing and impersonation also victimized millions of corporate employees across the world , contributing to an even greater cyber threat. The contemporary world has witnessed the rise of the Internet and global communication, and collaboration technologies, including mobile data use and the culture of bring your own device [BYOD].