Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In the spirit of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), my colleague Ashvin Kamaraju wrote about how organizations can use fundamental controls to secure their information technology. Effective digital security doesn’t end at “Secure IT,” however. Building a Robust Security Culture.

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IT Governance

MARCH 15, 2019

Earlier this month we caught up with Geraint Williams, CISO for GRC International Group plc, to find out more about information security and how he raises awareness within the workplace. The post An exclusive interview with a CISO appeared first on IT Governance Blog.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 18, 2023

Microsoft has hardened security following a Chinese hack of U.S. Even as the threat has passed, Microsoft officials are still analyzing how a Chinese threat group was able to access U.S. Chinese hacker group Storm-0558 breached an undisclosed number of email accounts belonging to 25 organizations, including U.S.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 13, 2023

Blog post with screen shots and links: [link] A Master Class on Cybersecurity: Roger A. In this blog we have warned for years about deepfakes, which are also called "synthetic media" created with artificial intelligence or machine learning tools. Grimes Teaches Password Best Practices What really makes a "strong" password?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The discovery of the more than 20,000 DCIM software instances and products exposed to the internet makes it highly likely that there will be “increasing cyber threats towards data centers worldwide,” investigators with Cyble Research Labs wrote in a blog post. Default passwords protected these data centers.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Blog post with links: [link] [New PhishER Feature] Immediately Add User-Reported Email Threats to Your M365 Blocklist Now there's a super easy way to keep malicious emails away from all your users through the power of the KnowBe4 PhishER platform! Blog post with links: [link] Are Your Users Making Risky Security Mistakes?

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This is a platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing tests focusing on the problem of social-engineering. A phishing simulation is carried out across the organization for all employees or a targeted group. Employees can account for any suspicious emails, through an easy report feature, Knowbe4.

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IT Governance

MAY 15, 2024

Find out more More interested in general information security awareness training for staff? Check out our Information Security Staff Awareness Elearning Suite. We’ll be back soon, chatting to another expert with GRC International Group. We hope you enjoyed this edition of our ‘Expert Insight’ series.

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Lenny Zeltser

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

How might we distribute cybersecurity tasks and operationalize the perhaps utopian idea that "security is everyone's responsibility"? After all, the diffusion of responsibility principle suggests that people feel less responsible when they are part of a group, possibly because they think someone else will take action.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Some of the most well-known perpetrators of cyberattacks include: Cybercriminals These individuals or groups commit cybercrimes, mostly for financial gain. Staying ahead of cyberattacks Strong passwords , email security tools, and antivirus software are all critical first lines of defense against cyberthreats.

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CGI

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Security awareness efforts need to be conducted on an ongoing basis to keep cybersecurity top of mind and make employees aware of what it is required to protect data and information assets. I invite you to read a previous blog about this as a key characteristic as digital organizations shift to a cyber-aware culture.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Organisations are being warned about data breaches in the media, regulators are demanding improved information security and the public is getting more vocal when organisations make mistakes. You may well think that staying secure and pacifying all these groups is an expensive and seemingly impossible task.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Staying with the UK, a report released by the civil liberties and privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch this week reveals that UK local authorities experienced more than 98 million cyber attacks in the last five years – at least 37 per minute. Until next time you can keep up with the latest information security news on our blog.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The problem: VMware Carbon Black researchers detailed the findings in a blog post. Non-privileged threat actors can exploit these drivers to gain complete device control, execute arbitrary code, modify firmware, and escalate operating system privileges, posing a significant security risk.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The solution is to create an email group consisting of approved employees that you can send the password to whenever it’s changed. Organisations that want their employees to follow these and other best practices should take a look at our Security Awareness Programme.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The solution is to create an email group consisting of approved employees that you can send the password to whenever it’s changed. Organisations that want their employees to follow these and other best practices should take a look at our Security Awareness Programme.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Ian Jenkins, VMware’s director of sales, networking and security in the UK and Ireland, explains the approach organisations should be taking: Breaches are inevitable, but how fast and how effectively you can mitigate that threat and protect the continuity of operations is what matters.

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CGI

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Often they are conducted by highly skilled international organized crime groups or foreign nation states that aim their attacks not just at government entities, but also at corporations, including those with large-scale financial and credit card assets and foreign investments, and those in the strategic resources sector. Add new comment.

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KnowBe4

MAY 3, 2019

Leaderboard for the groups who proactively avoid and report phishing threats. This new suite of data visualization features makes it easier to: Target specific employee groups and departments with focused phishing campaigns. Trending performance over the last five campaigns. Your most risky departments.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

This article prompted me to buy the new black XL T-shirt you see in the blog. Blog post with (lots of) links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. I asked JasperAI to create the art for the blog post.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 27, 2023

New-school security awareness training gives your employees a healthy sense of suspicion so they can avoid falling for these types of scams. Blog post with links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 18, 2023

Employees can be helped to develop sound security habits like these by stepping them through monthly social engineering simulations. This is the sort of social engineering that new school security awareness training can effectively prevent. Blog post with links: [link] Try SecurityCoach NOW With a Free Preview!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2023

Organizations should focus their security awareness and training efforts towards educating their userbases on how to differentiate between each type of phishing attack, and strive to build phishing resiliency over time using routine simulated exercises that mimic real-life attacks.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 11, 2023

We already know that 10% of threats get past security solutions, so we're left with educating the user to stop attacks. Despite 71% of the survey respondents stating they had security awareness training in place, 40% do not conduct regular training, 16% only perform ad hoc training, and 9% only push training when an incident occurs.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

New school security awareness training can help any organization sustain that line of defense and create a strong security culture. Blog post with links: [link] A Master Class on IT Security: Roger A. Users can become desensitized to the potential risks bogus messages concerning IT issues carry with them.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

Blog post with links: [link] [New PhishER Feature] Immediately Add User-Reported Email Threats to Your M365 Blocklist Now there's a super easy way to keep malicious emails away from all your users through the power of the KnowBe4 PhishER platform! The majority of these heists were committed by groups associated with North Korea.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2021

“Once again, we are seeing how modern cyber crime is targeting more than just individuals or small organizations,” observes Erich Kron, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4. These attacks are no longer a nuisance, but instead represent a real and significant threat to our national security.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipate emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. Criminals are also using smishing to enlarge the scope and to impact a large group of victims.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Experienced groups and new players are combining forces and found new nearly undetectable ways to exchange information. Spin up more security awareness training to help minimize social engineering, phishing and other user-focused attacks. •If Commit to timely and near instant responses.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Staying ahead of spear phishing and phishing attempts Email security tools, antivirus software, and multi-factor authentication are all critical first lines of defense against phishing and spear phishing. appeared first on IBM Blog. Spear phishing is targeted phishing.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2020

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipating emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. Criminals are also using smishing to enlarge the scope and to impact a large group of victims. Phishing and Malware Q2 2020.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2020

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipating emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. Those landing-pages were the same that were used in the current phishing waves, confirming that the threat group is the same.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 26, 2021

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipating emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. Criminals are also using smishing to enlarge the scope and to impact a large group of victims. Phishing and Malware Q4 2020.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2021

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipating emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. Criminals are also using smishing to enlarge the scope and to impact a large group of victims. Phishing and Malware Q2 2021.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 9, 2019

Illustrating this fact, International Data Group (IDG) found in its 2018 Cloud Computing Survey that 73 percent of IT decision-makers (ITDMs) have already witnessed this implementation in their organizations, while 17 percent said they expected to witness such integration over the next year. But that’s not for a lack of awareness.

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Security Affairs

JULY 4, 2022

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipate emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. Criminals are also using smishing to enlarge the scope and to impact a large group of victims. Phishing and Malware Q2 2022.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2021

This report provides intelligence and indicators of compromise (IOCs) that organizations can use to fight current attacks, anticipating emerging threats, and manage security awareness in a better way. Criminals are also using smishing to enlarge the scope and to impact a large group of victims. Phishing and Malware Q1 2021.

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