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The right way to migrate to the cloud: All in, but with the right tools – New white paper

Quest Software

Learn the right way from this DCIG paper on system administration practices and performance monitoring tools.( Going all in to migrate to the cloud? read more ).

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Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

Krebs on Security

The findings come in a new paper released by researchers at Cambridge University’s Cybercrime Centre , which examined the quality and types of work needed to build, maintain and defend illicit enterprises that make up a large portion of the cybercrime-as-a-service market.

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

The Last Watchdog

This grim outlook is shared in a new white paper from Sophos. 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. Configure system administrative tools more wisely.

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Your CVSS Questions Answered

IT Governance

So, whether you’re a developer using a web application scanning tool to assess your own work, or a systems administrator doing your monthly due diligence checks with a vulnerability scanner, or a third-party security company performing a penetration test , you’re likely to use the CVSS.

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What Is an Insider Threat? Definition, Types, and Examples

IT Governance

Sabotage A system administrator who lost his job at a paper mill served 34 months in prison after tampering with the control systems of his former employer and causing $1.1 million (about £900,000) in damages.

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Build and Sustain Your Records Program with a Records Management Playbook

ARMA International

Finally, this list does not include any standard management or project management plays, which are also necessary and may be part of the records management program, such as budgeting, defining business requirements, marketing and championing records management, records management system administration, and so forth.

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Will Autonomous Security Kill CVEs?

ForAllSecure

It evolved to a place where system administrators and cybersecurity professionals had to monitor several different lists, which didn’t scale well. For example, in one of our research papers we found over 11,000 memory-safety bug in Linux utilities, and we were able to create a control flow hijack for 250 – about 2%.