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By Suchita Gupta, Associate Content Writer, Allied Market Research Cyber security is a fast-moving sector as both cyber security providers and hackers go toe-to-toe with each other. With new threats, security providers come up with innovative ways to prevent such attacks. For the last two years, the world was battling and coping with the global Covid-19 pandemic, but this trying period was particularly helpful to cybercriminals. During the pandemic, various companies including tech giants such…

By Sean Deuby, Director of Services, Semperis Active Directory is foundational to on-premises and hybrid identities that are everywhere in enterprise environments and the cloud today. It is also key to a zero-trust security architecture. As a result, it’s a primary target of a cyberattack: Security company Mandiant says that Active Directory is involved in 90% of attacks that it is called in to investigate. Here are 10 actions to take now to protect your…

Image: PhotoGranary/Adobe Stock When it came out, Exchange Server 2013 removed a lot of deployment complexity. It could scale from a single server to the millions of mailboxes in Office 365. It also had better administration tools, including public folder and mobile device management, better availability with automatic failover, Outlook web access that was almost indistinguishable from desktop Outlook, and a hybrid option that let you start moving mailboxes to the cloud without giving up…

By: Scott Dennehy, Edge Innovation at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company As the adoption of cloud and other as-a-service offerings has accelerated in recent years, so has the number of acronyms used to describe these offerings. In some cases, the acronyms are used interchangeably, confusing the service that is being delivered and consumed. Let’s look at 3 prime examples: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) SaaS is defined as any software application delivered and…

Performance and security company Cloudflare reported that it stopped a 2.5Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in Q3 2022 launched by a Mirai botnet against Minecraft server Wynncraft. The data comes from the company’s latest DDoS Threat Report, which includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape in the third quarter of 2022. “Multi-terabit strong DDoS attacks have become increasingly frequent. In Q3, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated multiple attacks that exceeded 1Tbps,” the company…

Zoetop, the holding company behind retailer giant Romwe and Shein, has been fined $1.9m after it failed to properly inform customers of a data breach that reportedly affected millions of users. According to a notice from New York’s attorney general’s office this week, the 2018 data breach saw Zoetop failing to secure customers’ data, not adequately informing customers of it and trying to keep the real impact of the leak quiet. The 2018 hack saw credit…

The SplashID Pro password manager helps you securely store and manage your important digital data. Get it for more than 70% off today. Image: Stack Commerce Previously, writing your passwords on a sticky note and sticking it in a desk drawer was and still is a bad idea, but it was less of a bad idea than it is today. In our modern age of cybercrime, having a password manager is essential for anyone who…