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MY TAKE: A path for SMBs to achieve security maturity: start small controlling privileged accounts

The Last Watchdog

The challenge of embracing digital transformation while also quelling the accompanying cyber risks has never been greater for small- and mid-sized businesses. It gets back to the central difficulty of balancing productivity and security in a competitive, complex and fast-changing digital landscape. Remote desktop risks.

Security 201
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NEW TECH: This free tool can help gauge, manage third-party cyber risk; it’s called ‘VRMMM’

The Last Watchdog

What’s happening is that supply chains are becoming more intricate and far-flung the deeper we move into digital transformation and the Internet of Things. And opportunistic threat actors are proving adept as ever at sniffing out the weak-link third parties in any digital ecosystem.

Risk 147
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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

Mikko had read some of my reporting on Netsky, which Skynet backwards, a virus also known as Sasser, was a typical virus-of-the-day back in 2005. So back in 2005, Microsoft offered, you know, $25,000 to have somebody turn in a malware writer back. Tell us how you are fighting this war in the digital realm. Alex banya.