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

The Last Watchdog

These were all obscure open-source components that, over time, became deeply embedded in enterprise systems across the breadth of the Internet, only to have a gaping vulnerability discovered in them late in the game. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later.

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

SecureList

With large-scale security crises being one of the most relevant threats worldwide, it’s more important than ever to reflect on past events, assess emerging threats, and, most crucially, explore strategies to prevent future incidents. Fortinet firewall vulnerabilities What happened?

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

It’s designed for incident handlers, incident handling team leads, system administrators, security practitioners, and security architects. AsTech’s Kent said of Security+, “This crosses several domains and is a basic introduction to security.

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Raising a Cyber-Savvy Village: Remote Learning Security in the Age of COVID-19

Herjavec Group

Ask your school system administrators to provide you their written cybersecurity policies and procedures concerning proposed remote learning capabilities. Ask your school system administrators to provide a copy of their incident response policies and plans. So, what to do?

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SANS Critical Controls 14 and 15: Network Audit Logging and Controlled Access

NopSec

Audit Logs for firewall, network devices, servers and hosts are most of the time the only way to determine whether or not the host has been compromised and the only way to control the activity of the system administrator. The logs need to be aggregated, safeguarded and correlated with other relevant security events.

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Addressing Remote Desktop Attacks and Security

eSecurity Planet

A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. The system administrator did not configure standard security controls when installing the server in question. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet. Check Point.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2023

SecureList

A useful exercise in that regard is to try to foresee the future trends and significant events that might be coming in the near future. This story also raises questions about whether attackers who have breached telecommunication companies would also be able to leverage these legal interception systems.

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