IT Governance

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

There has never been a better time to get into cyber security, with growing demand for experts promising increased salaries and job opportunities. In this blog, we provide tips for getting your cyber security career started no matter your background. Of course, any prior experience is a massive advantage, despite the skills gap.

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Lenny Zeltser

APRIL 19, 2020

You can now take my malware analysis and cybersecurity writing courses online in two formats at SANS Institute, depending on how you prefer to learn: OnDemand: Self-paced, recorded training with four months of access to course materials and labs. Malware Analysis. Cybersecurity Writing.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 31, 2023

Such environments should be hosted separately from the production environment’s domain and must refrain from hosting actual user data, and, of course, it should not be publicly accessible. It’s advisable for them to externally verify the information contained in emails and exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

UK organisations are overlooking the importance of cyber security staff awareness training, instead investing in expensive and unnecessary technologies, a VMware and Forbes Insight study has found. So, why are businesses trapped in this cycle of investing in cyber security solutions they don’t need? Same solutions, same results.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Microsoft’s exam description notes that the qualification demonstrates candidates’ “fundamental knowledge of cloud concepts, as well as Azure services, workloads, security, privacy, pricing, and support”. Those who enrol in our Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 Training Course will discover that the exam is included as part of the course.

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IT Governance

APRIL 15, 2020

The video conferencing platform Zoom has been heavily criticised in recent weeks , amid a series of allegations related to its inadequate cyber security and privacy measures. It’s worth emphasising, then, that for all of Zoom’s security faults, the blame for this incident lies with users rather than the platform. Cyber attacks.

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Managing Your Information

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

If you are considering taking our BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection, you might have some questions about whether this is the right course for you. Who is the course for? . The course is suitable for: . IT Security and IT managers, Chief Information Security Officers . What does the course cost?

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Adam Shostack

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The title captures the question: Effectiveness Of Using Card Games To Teach Threat Modeling For Secure Web Application Developments. Quizzes were administered both before and after the activity, and a survey was taken to measure student attitudes toward the exercise.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 24, 2019

The exercises aimed at testing and ensuring the integrity and the security of Russia’s Internet infrastructure, so-called RuNet. One of them is checking the integrity and security of the Internet as a result of external negative influences.” ” reported the Tass press agency. Pierluigi Paganini.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 4, 2021

Second drafts of the new overarching national personal data protection and data security laws have just been published, and give a clearer picture of the impending new national frameworks in China. Draft Data Security Law. Authors: Carolyn Bigg , Venus Cheung and Fangfang Song. Draft Personal Information Protection Law.

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Reltio

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

At Reltio, we’ve refarkled Reltio Academy MDM Courses. The changes are happening on multiple fronts, from the course offering menu to the depth of technical detail, format, length, and pricing. While the courses can take 2 - 4 hours to complete, the modules in the courses are no longer than 30 minutes. Short sections.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 27, 2023

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). Use security software to detect instances of RMM software only being loaded in memory.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2022

Of course, one must recognize that the word “disruptive” can also have a negative connotation, as any student who has disrupted a class has painfully understood. And perhaps most importantly, ensure that all those plans are exercised and tested on a regular basis. Data Security. Robert Burns | Chief Product Security Officer.

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IT Governance

JULY 18, 2018

It’s an advanced cyber security position that comes with a lot of responsibility. It is much more cost-effective to enrol on an ISO 27001 lead implementer training course that includes the exam in its programme rather than pay for the two separately. We also offer a Live Online version of this course.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this year, I reported a security vulnerability in Rust’s linked-list-allocator to the RustOS Dev team, which was assigned CVE-2022-36086. The main idea with this harness is to initialize the heap object with a random size, then exercise the other functions at random. The Target. Request an allocation: allocate_first_fit.

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Reltio

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

According to a recent article in CIO Magazine , cloud architects and database administrators ranked second and third (behind security professionals) as the most in-demand jobs for 2021. The revamped courses and new certifications have emerged just in time to help IT professionals prepare for these opportunities. Need help or answers?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Army told Reuters it removed an app containing Pushwoosh in March, citing “security concerns.” Reuters said the CDC likewise recently removed Pushwoosh code from its app over security concerns, after reporters informed the agency Pushwoosh was not based in the Washington D.C. THE PINCER TROJAN CONNECTION.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

As such, “conducting tabletop and disaster recovery exercises with everyone remote may be an adaptation, but it isn’t an insurmountable one”. Organisations can also teach their staff about the fundamentals of incident response with our Cyber Incident Response Management (CIRM) Foundation Training Course. Beware of elevated privileges.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 18, 2017

IT Governance runs two levels of GDPR training courses across the UK to train staff on the Regulation, giving them the knowledge required to manage a GDPR compliance project. The courses are also available Live Online or as distance learning for those who can’t get to a classroom. EU GDPR Foundation Training Course.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2022

Cybersecurity experts would have you believe that your organization’s employees have a crucial role in bolstering or damaging your company’s security initiatives. Now is the moment to train your personnel on security best practices, if you haven’t already. Customize Your Security Training.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 9, 2017

On August 4, 2017, the FTC published the third blog post in its “Stick with Security” series. As we previously reported , the FTC will publish an entry every Friday for the next few months focusing on each of the 10 principles outlined in its Start with Security Guide for Businesses.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Brexit is clearly a pressing issue for many organisations, but we urge you to exercise caution whenever you receive communications out of the blue relating to the UK’s departure from the EU. You can learn everything you need to protect yourself from scams by enrolling in our Phishing Staff Awareness E-Learning Course.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 1, 2022

The above threshold is generally aligned with the draft Measures on Security Assessment of Overseas Data Transfer released last year. Instead, a CAC-conducted security assessment must be carried out for overseas data transfer. Of course, explicit, separate consent, must be also obtained.).

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Effective (and ideally automated) information classification is the bedrock to ensuring the application of appropriate information security controls to the relevant systems and processes. This could result in the Commissioner exercising the new powers while an entity is still managing a suspected or actual data breach in real time.

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IT Governance

APRIL 2, 2019

Anyone with an interest in information security will have encountered ISO 27001 , the international standard that describes best practice for an ISMS (information security management system). It’s a supplementary standard that provides advice on how to implement the security controls listed in Annex A of ISO 27001.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The situation might seem hopeless, with cyber criminals outnumbering overworked and underfunded information security personnel, but there are plenty of ways you can improve your defences, even on a tight budget. Green papers. This green paper explains each requirement and how you can comply. Videos, blogs and podcasts.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Although there’s room to interpret which course of action is best for you, any decision should be supported by an instruction in the Standard. You can find out more about what it takes to audit against ISO 27001 by enrolling in one of these training courses: ISO 27001 external auditor. Keep an eye out for these seven mistakes: 1.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This week, we discuss a Bank of England cyber resilience exercise, the latest cyber security news from the US Office of Personnel Management, the highlights of this month’s Patch Tuesday, and a surprising admission by a Japanese cyber security minister. Here are this week’s stories.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Here’s a scenario for how AD is factoring into ransomware attacks: The attacker gets a toehold inside the network by phishing an employee login , or via a targeted credential stuffing exercise, or through cross-site scripting. Even so, it will take a long while more before ransomware runs its full course. I’ll keep watching.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2019

Mixing Bitcoins that are obtained legally is not a crime but, other than the mathematical exercise, there no real benefit to it.” ” Back in 2018, FIOD launched an investigation, with the support of the security firm McAfee, that led in the seizure of six servers in the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Pierluigi Paganini.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Proving or disproving that a DDoS attack happened can be a thorny issue for network administrators and even security teams. Digging further into the data, they found a more serious security issue as well: Active Directory records were being exposed to the internet through attempted Dynamic DNS updates.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Discovery focuses on understanding legacy application, infrastructure, data, interaction between applications, services and data and other aspects like security. Further, for re-write initiatives, one needs to map functional capabilities to legacy application context so as to perform effective domain-driven design/decomposition exercises.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Russia plans to conduct the country from the Internet for a limited period of time to conduct a test aimed at assessing the security of its infrastructure. Of course, the concentration of the traffic through nodes controlled by Moscow could open the door to a massive surveillance. ” reported ZDNet. and Yandex.ru

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) strongly advised public companies to improve their cybersecurity. While the new security proposals have not yet become law, cybersecurity managers can begin to prepare metrics and audits that will not only help comply with those laws, but can also help create positive change now.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

If your organisation is concerned about information security, it should have an ISO 27001 -compliant information security management system (ISMS) in place. Implementing an ISMS helps organisations manage their security practices, as well as helping to monitor, audit and improve their information security.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 14, 2018

On March 14, 2018, the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced insider trading charges against a former chief information officer (“CIO”) of a business unit of Equifax, Inc. It does not appear that the special committee’s investigation covered the CIO’s trades.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

DECEMBER 3, 2021

There are also new requirements around transfers of data outside of the UAE and requirements to keep data secure, and to notify the new data protection regulator, and in some circumstances data subjects, of data breaches. Data security. The PDPL imposes strict requirements around data security. The Data Protection Office.

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