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9 Types of Phishing and Ransomware Attacks—And How to Identify Them

Ivanti

Ransomware, on the other hand, was responsible for most data breaches caused by malware. against known and zero-day vulnerabilities, zero-click exploit kits developed by the NSO Group, fileless malware and the adoption of the “as-a-service” business model. Ransomware is malware whose sole purpose is to extort money from the end user.

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Insider Threat: A perspective on how to address the increasing risk

CTOvision

Cyber security is one of the highest priority topics for organizations today. Spanning a wide range of malicious activities from destructive malware and denial of service attacks, to the theft of intellectual property and even espionage, cyber threats pose a significant risk to any business. The Insider Threat.

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8 Active Directory Best Practices to Minimize Cybersecurity Risk

Tenable

Follow these best practices to harden your Active Directory security against cyberattacks and stop attack paths. This centralized, standard Windows system equips IT administrators with increased control over access and security within their operations, elevating management of all network devices, domains and account users.

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Pros and Cons of Hiring Freelance Cyber Security Consultant

Mobilunity

If you have an IT team, keep in mind that they don’t always have time to conduct a comprehensive cybersecurity assessment because they are already overwhelmed with day-to-day tasks. Therefore, many businesses hire cybersecurity experts to join their teams and take care of security tasks. Making use of out-of-date software.

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Top 4 K-12 Cybersecurity Threats to Watch in 2020

PowerSchool

How to prepare your edtech systems and prevent security breaches. By Rich Gay, PowerSchool Chief Information Security Officer & & Vice President of Development. The threat of a hack into your school or district’s edtech systems is any K-12 tech director’s constant worry. Analyze your network infrastructure.

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Software supply chain: What it is and how to keep it secure

CircleCI

For developers, several high-profile software security exploits have recently underscored the risks inherent in a similar type of supplier network: the software supply chain. It also includes building orchestrators and tools such as assemblers, compilers, code analyzers and repositories, security, monitoring, and logging ops tools.

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Network Performance Monitoring: How to Measure Network Performance

Kaseya

Network performance monitoring involves assessing and optimizing the various networking infrastructure components to improve performance and usage. Moreover, depending on changing business needs, IT professionals have to reconfigure the networks, optimize them, change settings and even upgrade the infrastructure to make it more efficient.

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