Security Boulevard

JULY 23, 2024

Security experts and government bodies have strongly advocated for companies adopting multifactor authentication (MFA) in recent years. But despite the increased adoption of MFA, security defenses don’t seem to be bolstered against rampant ransomware actors.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 6, 2021

UK Government has already made a step ahead as it has announced a plan to establish ‘Civilian Reserve’ where an experts panel is always available to bail out companies or sectors from all kinds of digital crisis. Therefore, should countries and national leaders should think about this issue?

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SecureWorld News

JULY 29, 2024

government agencies—including the Defense Department—have been leaked online by hackers. a company providing governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software, suffered a cyber intrusion. government, Leidos handles sensitive information related to national security, defense, and various federal operations.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 25, 2024

government that Kaspersky Lab’s ties to Russia could pose a national security threat. alleges that these ties could potentially allow the Russian government access to sensitive data or even facilitate cyberattacks. fears this data could be shared with the Russian government for espionage purposes. Specifically, U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

These systems allow government agencies to monitor communications in criminal investigations — hackers gain access to potentially sensitive, real-time data on investigations and suspects. officials worry that this breach could provide the Chinese government with valuable insights into surveillance techniques and operations of U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As more governments and repressive entities around the world have begun purchasing powerful commodity spyware to target individuals of particular importance or interest, iOS’s general security defenses haven’t been able to keep pace with these specialized threats.”

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference’s focus on cyber resilience doesn’t mean that organizations should abandon core security defenses like EDR , access control and firewalls , but they should be prepared for the advanced threats that will, at some point, get past them. Prepare Now. The conference — held in McLean, Va.,

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The landscape of cybersecurity laws and regulations today is set to undergo significant changes, impacting businesses, government entities, and individuals alike. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) outlines requirements for securing electronic health records (EHRs) and other sensitive health information.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

SOCs are one of the most important functions of an organization’s security defenses, but they are also a heavy drain on resources. The post SOC-as-a-Service: The Five Must-Have Features appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 20, 2024

The fallout from this breach has the potential to ripple through societies globally, with far-reaching consequences for individuals, businesses, and governments alike. The implications of such massive data exposure are far-reaching, potentially impacting individuals, businesses, and governments globally.

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Hacker Combat

APRIL 6, 2022

Ransomware attacks targeting governments, businesses, hospitals, and private individuals are rising. The best ransomware protection combines solid, layered security defenses with data backups that an attacker can’t encrypt. It has become a vast online issue that affects individuals and businesses alike. Regular Software Updates.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 8, 2023

The AI and quantum spin-out from Alphabet uses the Sandwich framework for the Cryptoservice module in its SandboxAQ Security Suite, currently used by several U.S. government agencies, global banks, telcos, and tech companies. SandboxAQ today introduced an open-source cryptography management framework built for the post-quantum era.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 30, 2021

These attacks are circumventing staple security products such as next-gen firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, web and endpoint security defenses, web application firewalls and database monitoring solutions. Breaches continue to happen at an increasing rate, with more severe consequences.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Targeted Sector Vulnerabilities: Financial Services, IT, Healthcare, Education, and Government sectors have emerged as primary targets, with attackers fine-tuning their strategies to exploit specific vulnerabilities within these industries.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 17, 2024

Additionally, public-private partnerships are essential to securing critical infrastructure. Collaboration between governments and the private sector allows for the sharing of expertise and resources to strengthen defenses across all sectors. The cyberthreat landscape is constantly evolving.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

government and defense institutions for intelligence gathering. Attacks on telecom corporations, government institutions, and utilities then followed in a predictable pattern. Want to strengthen your organization’s digital defenses? Read the common types of network security solutions next.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2021

Threat actors often vary their techniques to thwart security defenses and increase the efficiency of their attacks. Based on the decoy document, we assess that this attack is targeting the government and military of Azerbaijan. This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

The problem: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Government agencies have until January 23 to mitigate the issues or stop using affected products. Versions 0.65

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Organizations must continue to harden their overall security to prevent all data breaches and avoid reliance on encryption for protection. Learn more about cryptanalytic threats with Rainbow Table Attacks and Cryptanalytic Defenses. Pressure on both professional and personal encryption can also be seen in government legislation.

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McAfee

APRIL 21, 2021

Most of us don’t have responsibility for airports, but thinking about airport security can teach us lessons about how we consider, design and execute IT security in our enterprise. They cooperate with airlines, retailers and government agencies, and their threats can be catastrophic. And this is just the start.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 19, 2023

This can occur due to data leakage through faulty apps or systems, by laptops or portable storage devices being lost, by malicious actors breaking through security defenses, by social engineering attacks, or by data being intercepted in man-in-the-middle attacks. Sometimes, despite all efforts to the contrary, data can be compromised.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Data Governance and Compliance Varying Regulatory Requirements: Different cloud service providers may operate in various areas and must comply with local data protection and privacy laws — and your own data may require geographical controls too. To bridge gaps and ensure seamless data and process flow, use integration platforms.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 23, 2022

Some risks specifically affecting IoT include : Built-in vulnerabilities : IoT devices are often shipped specifically for consumer use, without enterprise-grade encryption or security controls. A comprehensive machine identity management policy allows security teams to: Achieve visibility of all deployed machine identities.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

Organizations first looked to augment their existing web application security tools and processes to “address” API security. Unfortunately, the security challenges associated with APIs can't be solved by simply updating existing testing tools and edge security defenses to check-the-box technologies that claim to provide "API security."

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 7, 2024

To handle emerging risks and remain proactive, update your security practices regularly. 9 Cloud Security Strategy Best Practices Implementing effective cloud security strategies and best practices protects your data and apps in the cloud. Regularly update your governance policies to reflect changing compliance requirements.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Despite law enforcement efforts, LockBit attacks continue to target important infrastructure such as municipal governments and healthcare providers. ConnectWise ensures that cloud instances are secure. The fix: To prevent risks, urgently update on-premise servers to version 23.9.8.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 12, 2024

How to Implement a Data Loss Prevention Strategy in 5 Steps To prevent illegal data access or leakage, effective DLP strategies must include a clearly defined scope, data security awareness and governance efforts, use cases mapping, dependencies identification and improvement, and a gradual DLP implementation.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC): Tracks data risks in a daily regulatory context with less attention paid to technologies, strategies, and business goals. Incorporate feedback from all stakeholders within the scope: operations, leadership, process owners, IT security, and in some cases vendors or customers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“Our ransomware readiness assessment is designed to analyze the customer’s security posture with respect to ransomware from the perspective of prevention, containment and restoration.”. GuidePoint’s targeted Ransomware Readiness Assessment will help customers: Identify gaps in their security defenses.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ransomware attacks have become much more dangerous and have evolved beyond basic security defenses and business continuity techniques like next-gen antivirus and backups. These methods provide significant security risks for businesses of all sizes. But that does not mean ransomware is going to conveniently fade away.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

In July, Ivanti’s Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) saw the vulnerability CVE-2023-35078, exploited by threat actors who spied on the Norwegian government, and earlier this month Tenable researchers discovered vulnerability CVE-2023-32560, which affects Ivanti’s Avalanche supply chain device management solution.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 28, 2023

In July, Ivanti’s Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) saw the vulnerability CVE-2023-35078, exploited by threat actors who spied on the Norwegian government, and earlier this month Tenable researchers discovered vulnerability CVE-2023-32560, which affects Ivanti’s Avalanche supply chain device management solution.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

For businesses seeking to secure their cloud infrastructure, CSPM is the best option. Key CSPM features Advanced data governance and compliance management are included, as are customized or prebuilt rules based on regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA, GDPR, NIST, PCI-DSS, CIS, ISO, and SOC 2.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2023

This will work fine for the largest companies and government agencies, but smaller companies, non-profits, and government agencies may have difficulty finding appropriate vendors. Smaller organizations tend to prefer to work with smaller vendors so that more attention can be given to their needs.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

FBI InfraGard Best for critical infrastructure security InfraGard is a threat intelligence feed and network partnership between the FBI and other government agencies and interested private sector parties. The massive, crowdsourced approach OTX takes limits the possibility of effective quality assurance. critical infrastructure.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

IT security policies : Establish benchmarks, goals, and standards that can be used for measuring successful implementation of security controls. Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management: Aligns security goals with business goals and regulatory requirements that apply to the data or the organization.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 24, 2024

For teams in industries like financial services, healthcare, and government, the more specific the access rule, the better. For example, a private network for a hospital, financial services provider, or government agency will need highly restrictive rules, such as thorough blocklists and limited allowlists.

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