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IBM Cloud inactive identities: Ideas for automated processing

IBM Big Data Hub

Regular cleanup is part of all account administration and security best practices, not just for cloud environments. When such an identity or an associated API key has not been used to authenticate for a set time, it is considered inactive. The above cleanup steps can be scripted and run manually.

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China-linked APT UNC3886 used VMware ESXi Zero-Day

Security Affairs

“VMware Tools contains an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in the vgauth module.” “A fully compromised ESXi host can force VMware Tools to fail to authenticate host-to-guest operations, impacting the confidentiality and integrity of the guest virtual machine.” ” reads the advisory published by VMware.

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Zero-Day flaw in FatPipe products actively exploited, FBI warns

Security Affairs

“A vulnerability in the web management interface of FatPipe software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker with read-only privileges to elevate privileges to the level of an Administrator user on an affected device.” Upon exploiting the flaw, the attackers used cleanup scripts to remove traces of their activity.

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China-linked APT group VANGUARD PANDA uses a new tradecraft in recent attacks

Security Affairs

In September 2021, Zoho released a security patch to address an authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-40539, in its ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus. The company also warned the vulnerability was exploited in attacks in the wild.

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How Cybersecurity Insurance Can Work To Help An Organization

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

It can, however, cover cleanup costs of an incident, and liability arising out of it. Source: Multi-Factor Authentication: A Key Condition for Cybersecurity Insurance. While there is a list of items that should be part of a good security plan, the three critical items on the list are: - Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

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12 Data Loss Prevention Best Practices (+ Real Success Stories)

eSecurity Planet

Employ Authentication Methods for All Users & Devices A zero trust approach rejects any sort of inherent trust and requires continual verification of all users and devices. Implement stringent access rules, multi-factor authentication, and continuous monitoring to authenticate all access attempts, regardless of prior trust status.

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If Network Scanning Is So Simple; Why Can It Be So Hard?

Info Source

So your documents coming in or being ingested or coming through the authentication system and then through the application where it continues its process there depending on how you build that. Those technologies are all about taking paper and doing on board image cleanup and processing, which most scanners have today.

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