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How Estonia Created Trust in Its Digital-Forward Government

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Cities are becoming smarter every day, and many state and local governments are pushing towards the digitalization of public services. Some North American cities are working hard to integrate online services and manage cybersecurity risk at the same time. Meanwhile, perhaps the best example of a digital city is in fact a digital country.  The […]

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Ransomware preparedness is low despite executives’ concerns

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86.7% of C-suite and other executives say they expect the number of cyberattacks targeting their organizations to increase over the next 12 months, according to a recent Deloitte poll. And while 64.8% of polled executives say that ransomware is a cyber… Continue reading Ransomware preparedness is low despite executives’ concerns→

Why your threat hunting program building shouldn’t stop once the engagement is over

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Let’s see, it looks like your organization just met an annual Threat Hunting assessment compliance requirement or achieved the introductory objective of experiencing a formal Threat Hunting assessment. Well done! Now, what should the organization take into consideration after successfully completing the assessment? Once a third-party Threat Hunting assessment concludes, many organizations may feel overwhelmed…

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10 Open-Source Intelligence Tools (That Actually Work With Your Existing Security Software)

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Finding the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) that affects your business or agency can help reduce your attack surface. You just have to find it first. Take a look at how OSINT works and how to secure it. According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) “is publicly available information […]

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A Journey in Organizational Cyber Resilience Part 1: The Human Factor

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Organizational resilience is key to good business. Sometimes confused with enterprise resilience, we use the former term instead because it applies to a business or agency of any size. Let’s take a look at how to improve employees’ cybersecurity posture by providing practical ideas they can add to their everyday habits. The result: cyber resilience […]

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What’s Behind the Leaks of Customer Data From Retailer Databases?

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Retail data breaches involving customer data happen often today. However, they tend to be smaller insize than health care, finance or government breaches. So, the general public notices them less. Yet, they happen more often than realized. Why? And how can you defend against them?  Human Error in Customer Data Theft All types of retail […]

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Private 5G Security: Consider Security Risks Before Investing

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So, 5G is one of those once-in-a-generation types of leaps that will alter how we operate. However, 5G security comes with a lot of challenges. Private 5G networks require us to look at attack surface management in a different way. How do they change the way we need to defend our data? And, what is […]

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How Companies Can Prepare for Botnet Attacks on APIs

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Organizations aren’t slowing down in their use of application programming interfaces (APIs). According to a survey covered by DEVOPSdigest, 61.3% of organizations used more APIs in 2020 than they did a year earlier. An even greater proportion (71.3%) said they plan to use even more APIs in 2021. Another 21.2% expected to use the same […]

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LockBit 2.0: Ransomware Attacks Surge After Successful Affiliate Recruitment

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After a brief slowdown in activity from the LockBit ransomware gang following increased attention from law enforcement, LockBit is back with a new affiliate program, improved payloads and a change in infrastructure. According to IBM X-Force, a major spike in data leak activity on the gang’s new website indicates that their recruitment attempts have been […]

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Fighting Cyber Threats With Open-Source Tools and Open Standards

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Detecting cyber threats is usually the first critical step in the mitigation of cyber attacks. Common means to achieve this goal are rules or analytics that track network and system behaviors and raise alerts when potentially malicious attacks are identified. Once a potential threat is detected, the staff of the security operations center (SOC) investigates […]

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