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City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The command-and-control beacons allowed Royal to prepare the City’s network resources for the May 03, 2023, ransomware encryption attack.” The City experts believe that the group specifically targeted a prioritized list of servers using legitimate Microsoft system administrative tools. ” continues the report.

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Top 12 Cloud Security Best Practices for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Does the provider encrypt data while in transit and at rest? What compliance requirements does the provider support? Specifically, these tools address a number of security requirements, including patch management , endpoint encryption, VPNs , and insider threat prevention among others. Encrypt data in motion and at rest.

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

“Certifications range from penetration testers , government/industry regulatory compliance , ethical hacking , to industry knowledge,” he said. It’s designed for incident handlers, incident handling team leads, system administrators, security practitioners, and security architects.

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Can smart cities be secured and trusted?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Now, OT networks are moving to more standard transmission control protocol/internet protocol (IP) networks, and digital information monitoring is needed to meet increasing energy demand, regulatory compliance, and business efficiency requirements. All these measures are considered best practices for data protection.

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Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Now, OT networks are moving to more standard IP networks, and digital information monitoring is required to meet increasing energy demand, regulatory compliance, and business efficiency requirements. All these measures are considered best practices for data protection. electrical grid is effectively attacked.

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CSPM vs CWPP vs CIEM vs CNAPP: What’s the Difference?

eSecurity Planet

But first, here’s a quick overview before we explore each in-depth: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM): Best used to maintain a robust security posture across your cloud infrastructure by instantly discovering configuration errors and compliance violations. Provides detailed advice and enables for manual or automatic remediation.

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Trust, but Verify: Keeping Watch over Privileged Users

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Privileged users today can include a multitude of people from system administrators, network engineers, and database administrators, to data center operators, upper management, and security personnel. Best practice also calls for strong cryptographic key management and encryption of data at rest to ensure data security.