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IaaS Security: Top 8 Issues & Prevention Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Security Misconfigurations Inadequately designed security settings, such as open ports, lax access restrictions, or misconfigured firewall rules, might expose infrastructure vulnerabilities. Automated Security Updates & Patching The underlying hardware and software infrastructure is managed and maintained by IaaS providers.

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What Is Industrial Control System (ICS) Cyber Security?

eSecurity Planet

Security Solutions ICS systems are vulnerable to cyberattacks, so security solutions, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and encryption protocols, are vital to protect these critical infrastructures from unauthorized access and malicious activities.

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Vulnerability Recap 7/8/24 – Intel, Cisco & More Face Risks

eSecurity Planet

To improve security against side-channel attacks, securely use indirect branch predictor barrier (IBPB) and enhance the branch prediction unit (BPU) with more complicated tags, encryption, and randomization. July 3, 2024 Threat Actors Exploit MSHTML Flaw to Deploy MerkSpy Surveillance Tool Type of vulnerability: Remote code execution.

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Cloud Security Fundamentals: Understanding the Basics

eSecurity Planet

Consider applying these methods for checking your security controls: Ensure physical security: Verify the data center’s security measures, such as surveillance, access controls, and the presence of security officers, to prevent unwanted access.

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What Is a SaaS Security Checklist? Tips & Free Template

eSecurity Planet

Are secure protocols and channels utilized consistently across all communications? Are firewalls configured and maintained to prevent unwanted access and data breaches? Have intrusion detection systems been established and maintained so that any security risks can be detected and addressed quickly?

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What Is Integrated Risk Management? Definition & Implementation

eSecurity Planet

The design company will install surveillance cameras and data loss prevention (DLP) technology to monitor physical and digital theft attempts. The 911 call center will use weather forecasts to predict power outages and network monitoring software to watch for both operations and security issues to computer and phone systems.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Gentle Art of Lockpicking

ForAllSecure

Within infosec, where so many challenges that are intangible -- like configuring network or firewalls. The idea, as in any security defense is to sufficiently frustrate an attacker so he or she will go elsewhere. It’s either open or it is still locked. This is something concrete that you can literally hold in your hand.

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