The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Last Watchdog posed two questions: •What should be my biggest takeaway from 2023, with respect to mitigating cyber risks at my organization? Cryptographic inventories need finalizing and quantum safe encryption needs to be adopted for sensitive communications and data. Educate your workforce. Encourage them to share information.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Cybersecurity Month Checklist: Fortify Your Digital Defenses madhav Thu, 10/24/2024 - 05:32 October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an international initiative that educates everyone about online safety and empowers people and businesses to protect their data from malicious actors.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Let’s explore what to expect from the upcoming regulations, provide insights into critical federal and state laws, and offer practical compliance and risk management strategies. These laws aim to establish standards for securing data, ensuring privacy, and mitigating risks associated with digital information.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2024

To reduce risk, restrict SSH access via network controls, enforce segmentation, and do extensive regression testing to avoid known vulnerabilities from resurfacing. To protect your network devices from potential risks, apply patches on a regular basis and keep their firmware up to date. Implement these changes immediately.

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AIIM

MAY 20, 2021

It creates an environment that encourages the impartation of education to staff members who need it to do their jobs better. Here’s how to promote knowledge sharing and collaboration in your company: Run mentorship programs where senior staff members advise and share their rich experiences with new workers. Scary, right? Nothing more.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The importance of computer identity in network communications: how to protect it and prevent threat actors from spying or stealing on online communications. Hash encryption is used to ensure integrity and authentication. Even those who must manage and provide this service must have their own digital identity. The hash function.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

However, if you know where the dangers lurk, there is a way to minimize the cybersecurity risks. As an example, we could use communications between systems that are not properly encrypted. Improper encryption. Hackers or other malicious sources can intercept poorly encrypted communications on the web. Vicious insider.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employees are the first line of defense against cybercrime and should understand how to recognize phishing emails and what to do if they suspect them. Without it, a business is vulnerable to a variety of risks, including financial loss, damage to intellectual property, and brand reputation. Use a corporate VPN.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In this article, we’ll look at public cloud security, including how it works, who is responsible for securing what, relevant standards, security methods, common risks to consider, and how public cloud security differs from private cloud security. Monitoring user logins, resource access, and traffic are all part of this.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2023

The potential risks A data leak like this can have many negative consequences for both the company and the affected job seekers. Prosperix should focus on the following areas to mitigate risks: Encryption: setting default server-side encryption for existing Amazon S3 buckets. The issue was quickly solved by the company.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Establishing guidelines for handling documents throughout the office can help to educate your coworkers and employees about document preservation and instill better practices that lead to a prolonged lifespan for your documents. Don’t Skip on Shredding Old Documents. Old documents that are no longer needed should be shredded and removed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Cyber Security Awareness Month – Answering Google’s Most Commonly Asked Questions madhav Wed, 10/18/2023 - 05:25 This month is Cyber Security Awareness Month , highlighting how far security education needs to go in order to enable a secure interconnected world. Encryption What is encryption?

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The technology industry has met the dramatic rise in ransomware and other cyber attacks with an impressive set of tools to help companies mitigate the risks. This gives the perpetrator the access needed to launch the ransomware and lock the company out of its own infrastructure or encrypt files until the ransom is paid in cryptocurrency.

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OneHub

JANUARY 3, 2019

This encrypts all the traffic from the device, which greatly reduces the risk of a hacker intercepting your data. Ultimately, every app your team utilizes should be encrypting data in transit and at rest. Enforcing two-factor authorization greatly reduces your risk of comprised passwords being used to access your secure data.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

None of this is to suggest that falling prey to holiday cybercrime is unavoidable or that the potential damage can’t be mitigated, but it is important to educate yourself, friends and family to safeguard the holiday season. How to Be Cybersecure in Virtual Family Gatherings. Use end-to-end encryption.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Strong encryption protects data securely from unauthorized access, but the specific algorithms that qualify as strong encryption change over time as computing power increases and researchers develop new ways to break encryption. What Makes an Encryption Algorithm Strong?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 21, 2021

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. How to choose a GRC platform. It includes multi-disciplinary risk and compliance management solutions and tools, including: IT & security risk management.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 12, 2024

“AI is driving a revolution in education, accessibility and productivity. Robust encryption, granular access controls and privacy-preserving techniques become imperative to counter the risks of unauthorized data access and use. Jamworks has two core products: Jamworks for Education and Jamworks for Business.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 26, 2023

An expanding and more complex business risk environment More than ever, small businesses need support to overcome the ripple effects of geopolitical tensions, climate crisis, and financial recession. Keep Your Encryption Keys Separate Encryption is a way to make your important data unreadable to those without the necessary decryption key.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. Cryptolocker and exploit components.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

But the COVID-19 lockdowns forced organisations to quickly create and provide remote working solutions, usually without the luxury of time to properly plan things and consider the risks involved. Specifically, companies are increasingly asking me about how to secure their data and infrastructure while continuing to be able to work remotely.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data?

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Byron: Companies often underestimate threats, neglect basic cyber hygiene, and fail to educate employees on cybersecurity. How can companies minimize risks? Regular training and simulations can help reduce risks associated with human errors. Erin: How has the ransomware threat evolved in recent years?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

See the Top Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Tools. M]uch of InfoSec management falls back on employee training and avoiding employee error – particularly with respect to phishing , spear phishing, and encryption lapses.”. Compliance Comes Down to Risk Management. PIPL Raises the Bar – And the Stakes.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber criminals may damage, destroy, steal, encrypt, expose, or leak data as well as cause harm to a system. Encrypted threats spiked 167%, ransomware increased 105%, and 5.4 In May, cybersecurity researchers revealed that ransomware attacks are increasing their aggressive approach by destroying data instead of encrypting it.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Although the news headlines are flooded with incidents affecting areas from critical infrastructure and healthcare to retail and education, we have a great opportunity to address this challenge. Security technology has evolved to provide organizations the ability to: Discover sensitive data and classify it according to risk.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2022

The goal of Data Privacy Week, celebrated between January 24 – 28, is to spread awareness about online privacy and educate citizens on how to manage their personal information and keep it secure. Data Privacy Week also encourages businesses to respect data and be more transparent about how they collect and use customer data.

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IT Governance

JUNE 7, 2024

Nonetheless, the risk of a cyber incident is significant, and as data leaks such as the ‘mother of all breaches’ suggest, sooner or later, every organisation will ‘get done’. Second, gangs seem to be putting all their efforts into data exfiltration, moving away from data encryption in the process. This really is worrying.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

See the top Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) tools. Also read: What is Cybersecurity Risk Management? Our analysis will then need to consider what it will take to prepare to meet that request and how to communicate it clearly, without technical jargon, to our executives, to the board, and possibly to a judge and jury.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Along with celebrating Cyber Security Awareness Month, several exciting events are taking place across the world, aiming to educate people on the latest trends in cybersecurity and privacy. We will have two meeting rooms, and focus will be on how to discover, protect and control access to your most sensitive data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 18, 2024

Poor quality QR code design Unfamiliar domain names Suspicious or out-of-place content Requests for personal information Addressing the Risks of QR Code Scams QR code scams can harm victims in many of the same ways as similar attacks, such as phishing with malicious links.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2021

As of April 28, the site mentioned nine companies primarily from aviation, financial, education and manufacturing industries. As always, the document contains instructions on how to remove “protection”: Figure 2. Files are encrypted using ChaCha20 with 12-bytes length IV.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2024

Although cookies are intended for secure session management, they require protection methods to avoid the risk of misuse and illegal access to personal information or online accounts. Table of Contents Toggle How Does Cookie Stealing Work? Risks & Implications of Cookie Theft How Do You Know If You’re Being Targeted?

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Armstrong Archives

AUGUST 25, 2023

Strong encryption methods for data should be used, and multi-factor authentication will add even another layer of security. Failure to Conduct Regular Risk Assessments Regular risk assessments are important in protecting health information under the HIPAA. This method requires more than just a password to access sensitive data.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 15, 2023

This includes establishing explicit goals for your organization, such as improving security posture or reducing risk. These documents will help you determine how to address potential vulnerabilities, and they set expectations with stakeholders for what your program will achieve. This process is sometimes called virtual patching.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Public Cloud Security Risks While public cloud systems offer scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency, they can also pose significant risks if not properly secured. Prevention: Implement robust encryption , access restrictions, data categorization, secure connections, and an incident response strategy.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 19, 2021

PrivacySavvy is a digital security company on a mission to educate internet users on issues concerning their digital lives’ privacy. During the test, the researchers aimed at understanding how these companies manage user’s security and privacy risks. How to Avoid Data Exposure.

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