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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

CIO

With every such change comes opportunity–for bad actors looking to game the system. Sometimes they simply don’t work, perhaps due to a change in contact lenses or a new tattoo. A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. The malware itself is easy to buy on the Dark Web.

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Why Proxy-Based Firewalls Are Not Enough

Palo Alto Networks

Since then, the technology has developed and evolved to provide additional features like malware detection and blocking, in-line data loss prevention (DLP), SSL/TLS inspection and bandwidth control. Some applications ignore system configurations for proxy servers and will always send their traffic directly out.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: IoT Vendors Fail at Vulnerability Disclosures, While Cyber Threats Again Top Business Risks 

Tenable

Then scan the latest list of top malware. 6 - The latest CIS top 10 malware ranking is out And here’s the list of most prevalent malware strains for December 2022 from the Center for Internet Security (CIS), featuring the return of NanoCore, Snugy, and Tinba, with SessionManager2 topping the rankings. And much more!

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The 8 Best Practices for Reducing Your Organization’s Attack Surface

Ivanti

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) defines zero trust as follows: “A collection of concepts and ideas designed to minimize uncertainty in enforcing accurate, least privilege per-request access decisions in information systems and services in the face of a network viewed as compromised.”

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What COVID-19 Response Strategies Tell Us About the Business-Cybersecurity Disconnect

Tenable

Employees are suddenly connecting to core business systems and applications using their own previously untested — and potentially vulnerable — consumer routers and home networks. We have visibility into all of the systems, data and processes required to deliver on a business continuity and disaster recovery plan.

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3 Ways to Handle POS Security Risks in Retail IT

Kaseya

In 2018, department store chains: Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor suffered a bad press due to a breach that exposed details of 5 million payment cards of customers. Tighten Software and Security Policies to Avoid POS Malware Attacks . This data is encrypted on the system, which is the endpoint.

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What Does End of Life for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Mean for Me?

Kaseya

Another option is Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure- learn more in our ebook: Windows 7 End of Life is Coming: Don’t Put Your Business at Risk by Not Migrating. The main reason you might do this is because you have a legacy application that won’t run on the new operating system. Migrate existing devices to Windows 10.

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