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4 Best Antivirus Software of 2021

eSecurity Planet

Bitdefender Total Security. For an introductory price of $45 a year for five devices, you get a long list of security protections: Advanced protection for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS devices. No security product is perfect, but for just under $4 a month, Bitdefender gives you broad, sophisticated defenses. Password manager.

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Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter

Troy Hunt

The victim, through no fault of their own, has been the target of numerous angry tweets designed to ridicule their role in internet security and suggest they are incapable of performing their duty. Consequently, you could feasibly have two different URLs expressed that whilst visually identical, actually go to different places.

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New York’s Breach Law Amendments and New Security Requirements

Data Protection Report

Although California has recently captured the lion’s share of attention with respect to privacy and security, on October 23, 2019, New York’s amended security breach law goes into effect, and on March 1, 2020, new security safeguards go live (N.Y. Readers may recall that New York’s security breach notification law (N.Y.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. How ransomware works. Staff Awareness. Spam Filter.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. Network Elements Networks connect physical and virtual assets and control the data flow between them.

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Best Cybersecurity and IT Outsourcing Options

eSecurity Planet

To ensure robust IT and security capabilities, most organizations turn to outsourcing to provide a wide variety of solutions to satisfy their even wider variety of outsourcing needs. Unfortunately, some executives will believe that simply engaging an IT outsourcing vendor will deliver improved security and internal IT department performance.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. As networks evolved and organizations adopted internet communications for critical business processes, these cryptographic systems became essential for protecting data.