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How to minimize remote access cyber security threats in 2024

CIO

Organizations have shifted to remote desktop work environments at an increasing speed since then – simultaneously expanding their attack surface and exposing themselves to greater cybersecurity threats. Given that threat actors exploit critical vulnerabilities within mere hours of publication, this poses a serious security risk for companies.

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The Top Cloud Security Threat Comes from Within

CIO

One of the biggest cloud security threats your company faces isn’t malicious. Accidental misconfigurations pose one of the leading security vulnerabilities IT organizations contend with in the cloud. This article explores some of the most common misconfiguration risks and how you can address them to tighten up cloud security.

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Safeguarding your digital ecosystem: effective strategies to detect and mitigate API abuse

CIO

Gartner studies indicate that by 2025, half of all data theft will be attributed to unsecured APIs. to handle authorization securely and avoid relying solely on simple API keys. WAAPs inspect incoming API requests, filtering out potentially harmful traffic based on predefined security rules to identify applications attacks (e.g.

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What is a Security Operations Center (SOC) and Why Do You Need It?

Kaseya

What is a Security Operations Center (SOC)? A SOC is a centralized facility within an organization that houses an information security team responsible for continuously monitoring, detecting, analyzing and responding to any cybersecurity incidents on a 24/7/365 basis. And that’s why we have SOC. SIEM vs. SOC.

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Security-Rich: How the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform Meets NSA/CISA Kubernetes Security Hardening Guidelines

d2iq

Cybersecurity continues to be a thorny problem for businesses and government agencies as breaches, disruptions, and data thefts continue to escalate. Security Is Mission-Critical The level of security an organization maintains can have a dramatic impact on the bottom line. impacting up to seven million people.”As

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Security Teams Unprepared for COVID-19 Cyberthreats According to Primary Research Study

Firemon

Government departments and contractors are rapidly undergoing digital transformations to public and hybrid cloud infrastructures, and now more than ever require increased network visibility to reduce complexity and ensure security. . Even more shockingly, 7% of government respondents do not spend any of their security budget on the cloud. .

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

Ivanti

Increases in attack surface size lead to increased cybersecurity risk. Thus, logically, decreases in attack surface size lead to decreased cybersecurity risk. As with all things related to security and risk management, being proactive is preferred. Reduce your cybersecurity attack surface by reducing complexity.