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GUEST ESSAY: 6 steps any healthcare organization can take to help mitigate inevitable cyber attacks

The Last Watchdog

The headlines are disturbing: Breach of patient records ; Surgeries and appointments cancelled due to IT outage ; and even, Death attributed to ransomware attack on hospital. A data inventory allows you to focus the greatest security (and monitoring) where it needs to be. Related: High-profile healthcare hacks in 2021.

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How to Prevent Malware: 15 Best Practices for Malware Prevention

eSecurity Planet

Exercise Caution with Emails The first two items on this list could be lumped together with a single warning: Don’t click. One bit of good news: Even widely used email services like Gmail have gotten much better at filtering out spam and malicious email, and businesses have a range of email security tools that can help.

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What is data loss and how does it work?

IT Governance

It’s a specific type of data breach, falling into the ‘availability’ category of data security (the other two categories being ‘confidentiality’ and ‘integrity’). There are several types of data loss, which can be separated into four categories. Data loss refers to the destruction of sensitive information.

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Cloud Security Fundamentals: Understanding the Basics

eSecurity Planet

Cloud security fundamentals are the core requirements that ensure data protection, regulatory compliance, and access management in a cloud environment. These standards assist businesses in establishing trust with their consumers, avoiding financial losses due to breaches, and ensuring business continuity.

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Best Incident Response Tools and Services for 2021

eSecurity Planet

With major cybersecurity incidents an almost daily occurrence, organizations need an incident response plan for the likelihood that they will someday be breached. Post-breach investigations. Ransomware, virus, and malware removal. That’s where incident response software and services come in. Check Point Incident Response.

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How to Develop an Incident Response Plan

eSecurity Planet

We make IT, security, or any business decision by weighing the risks and the rewards. Or as is often the case with security, what costs can we skip and still escape big penalties later? Unfortunately for those of us indulging in wishful thinking, the likelihood and costs of data breaches continue to increase.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. Effective implementation improves data throughput, system reliability, and overall security for any organization. Network Elements Networks connect physical and virtual assets and control the data flow between them.

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