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What Is a Host-Based Firewall? Definition & When to Use

eSecurity Planet

Deploy the firewalls across all endpoints, configure default rules, create specific application rules, enforce the principle of least privilege, test and document rule changes, and employ endpoint protection solutions. Verify documentation and support for a smooth deployment and ongoing operations.

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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) requires encryption or equivalent security measures to protect private student records. Julius Caesar used one of the earliest documented codes, the Caesar Shift Cipher, to send secret messages to Roman troops in remote locations. Subscribe The post What Is Encryption?

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What Is API Security? Definition, Fundamentals, & Tips

eSecurity Planet

Educate Developers and Users Provide secure coding training to your development team and consistently deliver security awareness training to API users. Subscribe The post What Is API Security? Definition, Fundamentals, & Tips appeared first on eSecurity Planet. This measure minimizes exposure to potential attackers.

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What Is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)? Definition & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Additionally, educating stakeholders and conducting regular security testing enhance overall data protection while reducing the likelihood of breaches. Train stakeholders : Educate your stakeholders and users to understand and carry out their data protection duties, and promote a culture of data security awareness.

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Maritime port cybersecurity

Security Affairs

1st 2021, stating that: “… Administrations (are encouraged) to ensure that cyber risks are appropriately addressed in safety management system no later than the first annual verification of the company’s Document of Compliance after 1 January 2021 “. In the declarations related to the MSC.428 The second date to remember is Jul.

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 2: Data Ownership & Minimisation

Troy Hunt

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. It's also geographically specific in that there are different legal definitions in different places and indeed different social expectations due to cultural differences too. Best of all, it's about prevention rather than cure.

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Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

ChiefTech

During this time, information was being transferred from hand-held documents to the computer screen, without being optimized for the new online medium. In contrast, finding the next subsection within a text document is very simple. Much of the information on how to subscribe to the podcast and how to download the audio file is in text.