Enterprise Strategy Group Verifies Valuation of XDR Solutions

Enterprise Strategy Group Verifies Valuation of XDR Solutions

  Why XDR It’s been established that EDR doesn’t do enough to detect threats—it is, after all only on the endpoint and over 90% of threats enter the enterprise through email and other avenues. And while many respondents considered SIEM their most valuable tool for threat detection and response, they also faced many challenges with it. Namely, 57% said they had operation and resource issues, 58% noted there was room for improvement with upfront correlation…

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Top 10 AWS Security Misconfiguration

Top 10 AWS Security Misconfiguration

Swift cloud adoptions spurred on by the global pandemic has led to oversights, errors, or ill-informed cloud service configuration choices (commonly referred to misconfigurations). You may have heard that securing the cloud can be complex, but something as “simple” to stop as a misconfiguration can ultimately lead to the unintended exposure of mission-critical information and assets. Major cosmetic retailer, Estee Lauder, experienced a major breach due to a misconfiguration, resulting in more than 440 million…

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News from AWS re:Invent – Docker Official Images on Amazon ECR Public – Docker Blog

News from AWS re:Invent – Docker Official Images on Amazon ECR Public – Docker Blog

We are happy to announce today that, in partnership with Amazon, Docker Official Images are now available on AWS ECR Public. This is especially exciting because Docker Official Images are some of the most popularly used images on Docker Hub, acting as a key and trusted starting point for base images for the entire container ecosystem. Having them available on ECR Public, in addition to Docker Hub, makes it easier for Amazon customers to use…

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How to Help Your Kids Combat Clickbait Scams

How to Help Your Kids Combat Clickbait Scams

We’ve all fallen for clickbait. Sometimes it’s a juicy headline designed to spark curiosity and drive traffic to a specific website. Other times it’s a quiz that will magically reveal your celebrity look-alike. While the innocent click connected to most clickbait is seemingly harmless, some clickbait can install dangerous malware onto your devices.  According to the FBI’s Crime Complaint Center’s 2020 Internet Crime Report, internet crime increased by 300,000 complaints from 2019 to 2020. This statistic represents a 50 percent increase…

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Quantum primacy: Is it real (and if so, does it matter)?

Quantum primacy: Is it real (and if so, does it matter)?

The nexus of the ongoing competition among nations and corporations (such as   Google and IBM) to demonstrate quantum primacy has shifted to a university in China where not one, but two experimental quantum computers reportedly have shown that quantum primacy is attainable. Quantum primacy is when a quantum computer is able to solve computational problems that are beyond the ability of traditional “classical” computers, yoked as they are to their quaint system of ones and…

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Shortcuts for adding multiple lines of text to files on Linux

Shortcuts for adding multiple lines of text to files on Linux

There are a number of ways to add text to files on Linux systems without having to open an editor, such as the echo and printf commands. On the other hand, when you need to add A LOT of text, the technique you use can make the job tedious or a piece of cake. This post describes some of the commands you can use and the problems and benefits you can expect. Also see: How…

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Bridging remote digital divides on tribal lands with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium – Cisco Blogs

Bridging remote digital divides on tribal lands with the American Indian Higher Education Consortium – Cisco Blogs

Pandemic-related disruption was particularly acute in remote, underserved communities. Along with partners like the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), Cisco is helping harness the power of technology to drive more inclusivity and opportunity for underserved populations and communities by bridging remote digital divides through technology and education. For many of us, the pandemic caused disruption to our lives–forcing us to work or study from home–but for others, it drove home existing inequities in access…

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Social Engineering: Tis the Season for Tricky Hackers

Social Engineering: Tis the Season for Tricky Hackers

With the holidays on the horizon, spirits are high—and it’s those same high spirits that hackers want to exploit. ‘Tis the season for clever social engineering attacks that play on your emotions, designed to trick you into giving up personal info or access to your accounts.   Social engineering attacks unfold much like a confidence scam. A crook takes advantage of someone’s trust, applies a little human psychology to further fool the victim, and then pulls off a theft. Online, a social engineering attack will likely involve a theft attempt of personal or account information that the crook can…

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Social Engineering: Tis the Season for Tricky Hackers

Social Engineering: Tis the Season for Tricky Hackers

With the holidays on the horizon, spirits are high—and it’s those same high spirits that hackers want to exploit. ‘Tis the season for clever social engineering attacks that play on your emotions, designed to trick you into giving up personal info or access to your accounts.   Social engineering attacks unfold much like a confidence scam. A crook takes advantage of someone’s trust, applies a little human psychology to further fool the victim, and then pulls off a theft. Online, a social engineering attack will likely involve a theft attempt of personal or account information that the crook can…

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‘Tis the Season for Scams

‘Tis the Season for Scams

Co-authored by: P, Sriram, and Deepak Setty ‘Tis the season for scams. Well, honestly, it’s always scam season somewhere. In 2020, the Internet Crime and Complaint Center (IC3) reported losses in excess of $4.1 billion dollars in scams which was a 69% increase over 2019. There is no better time for a scammer celebration than Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the lead-up to Christmas and New Year. It’s a predictable time of the year, which…

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