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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

A major focus of cybersecurity as an industry is its efforts to detect, root out, and respond to potential fraudsters attempting to trick companies and people out of their money, data, or both. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today.

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A potential solution for protecting customer privacy when sharing smart meter data

CGI

This is because smart meters are widely regarded as a key to reducing both energy consumption and emission levels. Imagine a situation where a third party gets hold of your metering data and, using data mining algorithms, and can detect your presence or absence and other household activities. in the utilities sector. .

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Life at ForAllSecure: Shawn Santos, Director of Sales

ForAllSecure

I've worked at a few startups before, and had some hand in the process, but taking the lead on putting together our outreach program (including tools and workflow) and now having the team onboard that is utilizing that has been fun and rewarding for me. It's never perfect. What has your experience been with our company culture? Do your job.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

Source (New) Technology USA Yes 204 Ho Chi Minh City Energy Company Source (New) Energy Vietnam Yes 84 Austal USA Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 43 Income Tax Department of India Source (New) Public India Yes 1 Gloucestershire County Council Source (New) Public UK Unknown 1 Daiho Industrial Co.,

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Forescout Platform: NAC Product Review

eSecurity Planet

combinations Enables automated response to quickly and effectively contain threats based upon policy from moderate (move to guest network, assign to self-remediation VLAN, apply OS updates/patches, etc.) to stringent (quarantine assets, turn off switch port, block access, disable network card, etc.)

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