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What Is a SaaS Security Checklist? Tips & Free Template

eSecurity Planet

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Is data encrypted in transit and at rest? Determine which threats and vulnerabilities affect your firm and its SaaS apps.

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12 Data Loss Prevention Best Practices (+ Real Success Stories)

eSecurity Planet

Customize training materials to address these specific concerns, including data handling protocols, password management , and phishing attempt identification. Encrypt data at rest with encryption algorithms and secure storage techniques.

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Weekly Update 138

Troy Hunt

It's Minnesota this week and I've just wrapped up a couple of days of Hack Yourself First workshop followed by the opening keynote at NDC followed by PubConf. After a mammoth 30-hour door-to-door journey, I'm back in the USA! There's also a follow-up to the video I promised to include in this blog post.

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Last Watchdog

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. Ransomware programs gain access to a computer’s file system and execute a payload to encrypt all data. Unfortunately, most of the data it encrypted was lost for good due to faulty code.

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Top Cloud Security Issues: Threats, Risks, Challenges & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Malware in Cloud Storage Buckets Malware threatens cloud storage buckets due to misconfigurations, infected data, and phishing. API security risks may cause weak authentication, input validation, encryption, permissions, error handling, and rate limit issues. APTs seek to steal critical information and retain long-term access.

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Extended Validation Certificates are Dead

Troy Hunt

Obviously Apple have already killed it off, but even for many people on Chrome, the Comodo website actually looks very different: So it turns out that 3 different machines in my workshop today are part of the Chrome experiment to remove the EV indicator from the browser. The usefulness of EV is going, going.

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The Hacker Mind: MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: ATT&CK started as a workshop exercise to document common tactics, techniques and procedures, T TPS that advanced persistent threats used against Windows Enterprise environments, advanced persistent threats are just as they seem. In the case of ransomware.