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10 Network Security Threats Everyone Should Know

eSecurity Planet

If your internal point-of-sale system goes down, you’re no longer able to complete in-store transactions until the server outage is fixed. However, behavioral analytics for network users is a helpful tool to at least identify anomalous behavior. Imagine you’re a retailer with 50 store locations.

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Podcast Episode 109: What’s The US Freedom Army? Ask Russia.

The Security Ledger

You might be surprised, says Dave Aitel, the Chief Technical Security Officer of the Threat Management and Analytics Division of the firm Cyxtera. When the firm Cyberreason set up a honeypot network designed to look just like a functioning industrial control system environment, they were expecting to attract a few flies.

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

eSecurity Planet

For example, the VP of sales has legitimate access to the salesforce CRM and the internal customer database, but downloading the full client list from each source would be a sign the VP is ready to change jobs and steal the information. The data flowing through networks should be encrypted for transmission inside and outside the network.

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Network Protection: How to Secure a Network

eSecurity Planet

Detect Insider Threats: Malicious and accidental insider threat activities can be detected using tools such as data loss prevention (DLP), user entity and behavior analytics (UEBA), or artificial intelligence-enhanced behavior analytics built into firewalls and IDS/IPS solutions.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

CLEMENS: Yeah, so I guess the investigative part of my career was just things I was slowly kind of getting sucked in from doing analytical work to you know, hey, can you look at what do you think about when you see this? All those exercises, the honeypot or honeynet challenges I think that's what they were called in. CLEMENS: No.

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