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How to Avoid LDAP Injection Attacks

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How to Avoid LDAP Injection Attacks

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) injections are arguably the most dangerous type of injection attack. The data accessed via LDAP is usually valuable and confidential. LDAP is commonly used in web applications for authentication, authorization, and storing and retrieving confidential data. Users typically utilize this protocol to manage user accounts, organize groups of users within an organization, and synchronize files across multiple systems. Consequently, an attack on LDAP is an assault on the backbone of…

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Security Patch Management Strengthens Ransomware Defense

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Security Patch Management Strengthens Ransomware Defense

Inundated with monthly, weekly, and even daily software patches, IT teams need a strategic approach to security patch management—one that lets them put risks into context, prioritize effectively, and manage their overall attack surface risk. Continue reading the Ransomware Spotlight series: Enterprises today have a massive amount of software to manage and keep up to date—1,061 applications on average, according to the MuleSoft Research 2023 Connectivity Benchmark Report. At that scale, with many software vendors…

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Phishing as a Service Stimulates Cybercrime

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Phishing as a Service Stimulates Cybercrime

According to Verizon, 78% of organizations experienced email-based ransomware attacks in 2021, with 15 million phishing messages containing malware being directly linked to later-stage ransomware. The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a dramatic rise in phishing attacks, with Trend Micro data showing a whopping 137.6% growth in 2020 alone. Part of the proliferation of email-based attacks can be linked to the rise in the growing trend of the overarching notion of crime as a…

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Decrypting Cyber Risk Quantification

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Decrypting Cyber Risk Quantification

Executive teams are faced with a challenging combination of an increasingly complex threat landscape and a rapidly growing attack surface. Together, these two factors are putting the modern enterprise at greater risk of exposure and potential breach. For security leaders, understanding the unique risk profile of the organization is not only a critical first step, but a required, continuous process to protect the enterprise against malicious adversarial threats — whether it comes in the form…

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Understanding Jamstack Security

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Understanding Jamstack Security

Over the past few years, Jamstack (previously stylized as JAMStack) has emerged as a new architectural paradigm for delivering websites and web-based applications with the promise of improved performance, scalability, and security over the traditional server-driven approach to web development. In the server-driven model, even the simplest website requires a web server such as Apache or Nginx to deliver its content, a database such as MYSQL to store and retrieve its data, and often an…

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Advantages of the AWS Security Maturity Model

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Advantages of the AWS Security Maturity Model

As the IT industry evolves and more sensitive customer and organizational data flood the digital sphere, infrastructure security is a skyrocketing priority. Furthermore, the transition from on-premises to the cloud has substantially altered previous security models. Therefore, ensuring the security of your cloud environments requires a measured strategy that ranges from basic configurations and threat detection to a robust incident response plan. However, you may find it difficult to determine where your current security measures…

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Fight Ransomware with a Cybersecurity Audit

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Fight Ransomware with a Cybersecurity Audit

With thousands of devices and increasingly distributed IT environments, it’s easy for organizations to lose track of open IP addresses, admin accounts, and infrastructure configurations. That creates an opening for cybercriminals to exploit with ransomware and other types of attacks. Enterprises can protect themselves by evolving traditional IT inventory practices into robust cybersecurity audit procedures as part of an overall attack surface risk management approach. Cybercriminals are constantly hunting for openings and weaknesses to exploit…

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MLOps Security Best practices

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MLOps Security Best practices

You must build, deploy, and maintain machine learning (ML) systems reliably and efficiently. You can do this using the process of MLOps, which is a combination of DevOps, data engineering, and ML techniques. MLOps provides a systematic approach to evaluating and monitoring ML models. MLOps is concerned with the lifecycle management of ML projects. This involves training, deploying, and maintaining machine learning models to ensure efficiency. Security is an essential component of all MLOps lifecycle…

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OT Cybersecurity Plan to Prevent the 5Ds

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OT Cybersecurity Plan to Prevent the 5Ds

Some of the most dramatic changes to the cybersecurity landscape are happening in manufacturing, where industry 4.0 promises to empower businesses with faster and more dynamic capabilities, thanks to the growing prominence of 5G networks, automation, and cloud analytics. With every new connection, cybersecurity leaders face a growing attack surface complicated by other developments like a looming global recession poised to shrink their teams and resources. A cybersecurity plan is needed to protect against these…

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Ransomware Revolution: 4 Types of Cyber Risks in 2023

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Ransomware Revolution: 4 Types of Cyber Risks in 2023

Security leaders and CISOs have been protecting their organizations from ransomware for decades, adapting with changes in technology to defend against the costly risks of stolen data or interruptions to critical systems. But adversaries always have new tricks up their sleeves and now the global community of ransomware groups seems poised for a revolution that could make them more effective, versatile, and dangerous. How will ransomware’s business model change? The kill chain employed by ransomware…

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