How much do you count on the internet every day? | McAfee Blog

How much do you count on the internet every day? | McAfee Blog

Maybe you do armloads of shopping on it. Maybe you skip going to the bank because you can tackle the bulk of your finances online. And perhaps you even pay your doctor a visit with it, instead of taking a trip to their office.   The way we use the internet has changed. We rely on it for a wealth of important things. Now more than ever, which makes Cybersecurity Awareness Month more important than ever.  …

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7 Cyber Attack Vectors & How to Protect Them

7 Cyber Attack Vectors & How to Protect Them

7 Cyber Attack Vectors & How to Protect Them Risk Management The quicker a cyberattack is identified, the less it costs. Jon Clay, VP of Threat Intelligence, reviews 7 key initial attack vendors and provides proactive security tips to help you reduce cyber risk across the attack surface. By: Jon Clay November 15, 2022 Read time:  ( words) Digital transformation and remote work have rapidly expanded the attack surface. As the collection of applications, websites,…

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Guide to Better Threat Detection and Response

Guide to Better Threat Detection and Response

Not all threats originate at the endpoint. According to Verizon’s 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, web applications and email are the top two vectors for breaches. XDR enables you to detect compromised accounts sending internal phishing emails, whereas native email security tools typically only monitors for malicious emails being delivered externally. XDR will also sweep mailboxes for IoCs in real time. With this information, the SOC can investigate who else received the email as well…

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Top Cloud Security Challenges & How to Beat Them

Top Cloud Security Challenges & How to Beat Them

An overview of how ngrok, a cloud tunnelling service, works. What’s at risk With access to a developer’s machine, cybercriminals can take advantage of local admin privileges or the shared work-in-progress to seed malware. They can also use hijacked credentials to get into the organization’s cloud dev environment or other systems, potentially accessing sensitive information or injecting vulnerabilities into application source code and pipelines. These kinds of breaches are hard to detect because the associated…

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Ransomware Insurance Security Requirement Strategies

Ransomware Insurance Security Requirement Strategies

A cyber insurance policy is a necessary element in a company’s risk mitigation strategy. However, obtaining/renewing a policy is becoming more difficult, and premiums have drastically increased. Direct-written premiums increased by 92% in 2021 according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. The primary reason for the hardening of the cyber insurance market? Ransomware. Since ransomware accounts for 75% of all insurance claims, premiums are directly correlated with the 148% increase in attacks through Q3…

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Software Patch Management Policy Best Practices for Large Orgs

Software Patch Management Policy Best Practices for Large Orgs

Organizations should start by only focusing on the bugs relevant to the application systems they use in-house. From that point, security teams can work to identify which of those bugs are being actively exploited and which are part of the business’s critical infrastructure. These are the key vulnerabilities to hone in on – the ones that could pose significant harm to your organization. The next is to identify those applications and/or operating systems that have…

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Prevent Ransomware Attacks on Critical Infrastructure

Prevent Ransomware Attacks on Critical Infrastructure

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022 Series Cyberattacks against critical infrastructure can cause massive societal disruption and take an enormous financial toll. Those high stakes make industrial IT and OT (operational technologies) appealing targets for ransomware in particular. Applying strong cyber defenses to six critical OT domains can help prevent ransomware and other threats to power grids, pipelines and similar essential operations. Ransomware attacks on industrial targets continue to rise, accounting for more than half of all…

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Enhance Cyber Defense with 2022 Cybersecurity Trends

Enhance Cyber Defense with 2022 Cybersecurity Trends

To modernize your cybersecurity strategy, you must understand the imminent risks. Our Midyear Roundup Report helps CISOs and security leads anticipate what’s next, enabling a stronger cyber defense strategy to recognize, assess, and mitigate cyber threats. Trend Micro Midyear 2022 Cybersecurity Roundup Report Each summer, Trend Micro analyzes and correlates attack surface intelligence from approximately 400,000 commercial customers and 20 million consumer customers, alongside data lakes and partnering with third-party research firms. We also review…

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Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices for Company Buy-In

Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices for Company Buy-In

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022 Series “However good a drug is, it is no good if people don’t take it or take it badly“ Dr. Anthony Fauci What’s the deal with cyber hygiene? As the cost of a data breach continues to increase, enterprises are tasked with continuously improving their cyber hygiene. Oftentimes, the focus is on cybersecurity tools and procedures, letting concerns about employee behavior fall to the wayside. We need to change our approach….

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Cyber Security Framework: Back to Basics

Cyber Security Framework: Back to Basics

Electrical Academia Benefit of the OSI model include: Reduces complexity by dividing aspects of network operations into simpler components Standardizes interfaces, enabling more specialized design and development efforts to specific functions Accelerates evolution and makes troubleshooting easier; network admins can look at the layer that is causing an issue instead of investigating the entire network Facilitate modular engineering and prevents changes in one layer from impacting others Enables network admins to determine the required hardware…

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