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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for May 2023

IT Governance

Dembinsky said that organisations must combat the risk with a combination of education and technical solutions, such as antimalware software. As is often the case with such events, hotel prices skyrocket as demand increases, creating a honeypot that scammers can pounce on.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

or specialized tools to deliver obfuscation defenses such as: Honeypots: Provide tempting targets for attackers that contain no valid information as one of several similar deception technologies to trigger alerts for early attack detection. These techniques can use built-in software features (for firewalls, operating systems, etc.)

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What is Network Security? Definition, Threats & Protections

eSecurity Planet

Policies, procedures, and user training : educate users, IT staff, and security teams regarding expectations, rules of behavior, standards, and methods of maintaining security and addressing incidents. See also Activity Monitoring to Control Bad Intentions, below.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Incident Response in the Cloud

ForAllSecure

And then eventually, you come out with a timeline of the events of what's happened. MUSIC] VAMOSI: So there are cases where, where legitimately, an event has occurred, but after the fact it's hard to pull all the strings and find out what that event was. Instead of having to fly people out all over the place.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

All those exercises, the honeypot or honeynet challenges I think that's what they were called in. And so we were basically you know, we started doing enterprise monitoring packet captures, you know, decryption, replaying all the events, incident response, all the assessment work, that it was a playground, you know, I got to do everything.

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