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MY TAKE: Why speedy innovation requires much improved cyber hygiene, cloud security

The Last Watchdog

Organizations are increasingly outsourcing IT workloads to cloud service providers and looking to leverage IoT systems. Compliance penalties, lawsuits, loss of intellectual property, theft of customer personal data, and reputational damage caused by poor cyber defenses are now top operational concerns. Here are a few key takeaways.

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Because behavioral biometric data can contain confidential and personal information, and reveal sensitive insight, it can also be a high value target and represent a honeypot for attackers. But cryptographic key management and the mechanisms that facilitate auditing and compliance are also best practices vital to effective data security.

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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

eSecurity Planet

Threat Intelligence Platform Product Guide Top 7 Threat Intelligence Platforms & Tools Network Access Control (NAC) Network access control (NAC) solutions make it possible for network administrators to create security, compliance, and usage policies and enforce them across all users and devices in the network.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Endpoint: Enables access for human users and computer services and commonly includes PCs, laptops, Internet of Things (IoT), and operational technology (OT). Cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM): Manages compliance, risk, and security with controlled user, system, and app cloud resource access.

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Millions of Microsoft web servers powered by vulnerable legacy software

Security Affairs

We then used an IoT search engine to look for open unpatched IIS web servers that were susceptible to known CVEs and investigated the results for statistical data. From the initial results, we filtered out honeypots, which are decoy services or systems set up by security teams and researchers as bait for threat actors.

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10 Network Security Threats Everyone Should Know

eSecurity Planet

This includes IoT devices. Protecting both customer and proprietary data is critical for both reputation maintenance and regulatory compliance. Sooner rather than later, you’ll want to perform an audit of your OT and IoT devices. Read more about IoT security solutions for your enterprise devices. Segmentation.

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The State of Blockchain Applications in Cybersecurity

eSecurity Planet

For modern networks, the introduction of new endpoints – be it remote laptops for personnel or client IoT devices – is a roadblock being actively addressed. Guardtime’s flagship solution, MIDA Cybersecurity, is a unique approach to addressing compliance management and reporting. Types of Endpoints Matter. Block Armour.