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What Is Allowlisting?

Kaseya

Keeping our digital world secure is more critical than ever as cyberthreats grow faster than we can track. Every business is searching for strong ways to protect their precious data and systems. Essentially, it’s like having a VIP list for your system’s security, ensuring only the approved get in.

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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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AI brings speed to security

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Survey results indicate incident response times improve with AI-based security services. Twenty percent of IT professionals who rely on traditional security measures said their teams can detect a malware infection or other attack within minutes, according to the survey. AI security services still catching on.

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How COVID-19 Response Is Expanding the Cyberattack Surface

Tenable

As organizations rapidly move to a remote-work model in response to COVID-19, cybersecurity professionals are facing a sudden expansion of the attack surface. While connecting to work remotely comes with its own set of security issues, the applications installed on these devices are not without their own flaws.

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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. An ounce of prevention….