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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Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Security – SASE Part 3

Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Security – SASE Part 3

How does it all work? First, it starts out with knowing your users and environment. By deploying sensors and integrating with common SaaS apps directly such as Microsoft Office, Google Workspace and many Identity Providers (Azure AD, Active Directory, Okta, etc.), a profile is built around the user and environment. This profile, made up of user and application behavior, can determine risk to the organization and suggest access control policies. Traffic from the ZTNA is…

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CISA Gov Alert: 2023-25 Plan Focuses on Unified Cybersecurity

CISA Gov Alert: 2023-25 Plan Focuses on Unified Cybersecurity

Breakdown of CISA Strategic Plan Goals & Objectives A strategy is a Litmus test for evaluating alternate plans or a guide for investing scare resources. This document plan does not meet those requirements. Instead, it lists a set of noble aspirations and goals. Goal 1: Cyber Defense, and Goal 2: Risk Reduction and Resilience, are core to CISA’s mission to protect critical infrastructure. Goal 3: Operational Collaboration and Goal 4: Agency Unification, speak to the…

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Incident Response Services & Playbooks Guide

Incident Response Services & Playbooks Guide

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022 Series No matter the size of a business, it faces the risk of a cyberattack. Over 50% of organizations experienced a cyberattack. And while proactive protection is ideal, there is no silver bullet when it comes to security—meaning you should plan for incident response as well. Yet, 63% of C-level executives in the US do not have an incident response plan, according to a report by Shred-It. That’s where an incident…

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022: 3 Actionable Tips

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2022: 3 Actionable Tips

Decrease the Risk Assessment Time Gap Towards Continuous Assessment Semi-annual penetration tests get a box checked and keep you out of compliance jail, but cybersecurity has moved to near-real time and so too must your assessment. Continuous monitoring has been an important goal, but we need to advance it to making continuous decisions based on that continuous monitoring. Even events such as authenticating to use a VPN are too infrequent to make actionable judgements: in…

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Smart cities must take a physical approach to digital expansion

Smart cities must take a physical approach to digital expansion

Smart cities must take a physical approach to digital expansion | Security Magazine This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience. By visiting this website, certain cookies have already been set, which you may delete and block. By closing this message or continuing to use our site, you agree to the use of cookies. Visit our updated privacy and cookie policy to learn more. …

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