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Black Hat insights: Getting bombarded by multiple ransomware attacks has become commonplace

The Last Watchdog

Major vulnerabilities left unpatched, as well as weakly configured system administration tools are sure to get discovered and manipulated, not just once, but many times over. In one of Sophos’ case studies, three prominent ransomware gangs — Hive, LockBit and BlackCat — attacked the same network, one after the other.

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15 Top Cybersecurity Certifications for 2022

eSecurity Planet

If you are going to study the subject anyway, you might as well get a certification out of it.”. It’s designed for incident handlers, incident handling team leads, system administrators, security practitioners, and security architects. Also read: How to Get Started in a Cybersecurity Career. The Top Cybersecurity Certifications.

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Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

To get an idea of how serious this problem might be, a 2015 report by the University of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies estimated a major grid attack in the U.S. The March attack demonstrates that at least two utilities were poorly prepared for such an attack. It also makes me fear that few are.

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How To Build A Cybersecurity Career | What Really Matters

Cyber Info Veritas

A Global Information Security Workforce Study conducted by ISC showed that out of all the cybersecurity experts surveyed, only 7% are below the age of 29, and only 13% are below the age of 30-34. In fact, those in InfoSec often come from fields such as development, system administration, and networking in that order.

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What Are Firewall Rules? Ultimate Guide & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Deny and alert: Notify systems administrator of potentially malicious traffic. If your team is looking for network security products, check out our list of network security categories , including network access control, endpoint detection and response, and encryption. Which ones need to be protected?

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More Cloud Means More Multi-Tenant Environments

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

To ensure a secure multi-tenant environment for consolidation, you need a solution that: adequately isolates security for specific tenants or customers; authorizes access to the data itself without allowing even systems administrators or privileged users to see the data; and. achieves performance without compromising security.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. If the US government dictating iPhone encryption design sounds ok to you, ask yourself how you'll feel when China demands the same. Denial-of-Suez attack. Jack Daniel | @jack_daniel. Katie Moussouris | @k8em0.