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More connected, less secure: Addressing IoT and OT threats to the enterprise

CIO

Malware is the top threat to IoT/OT With so many vulnerabilities plaguing IoT devices, these devices are attractive and relatively easy entry points into corporate networks for attackers. In fact, two notorious botnets, Mirai and Gafgyt, are major contributors to a recent surge in IoT malware attacks.

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Agentless Workload Scanning Gets Supercharged with Malware Scanning

Prisma Clud

Enterprises taking advantage of cloud-native architectures now have 53% of their cloud workloads hosted on public clouds, according to our recent State of Cloud-Native Security Report 2023. Using WildFire in 2021 to analyze malicious files, our threat research team discovered a 73% increase in Cobalt Strike malware samples compared to 2020.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

Why securing cloud workloads is an urgent matter In recent years, major cloud service providers encountered 6,000 malware samples actively communicating with them, underlining the magnitude of cloud security challenges. 3 We have seen an increase of 15% in cloud security breaches as compared to last year. 8 Complexity. Operational costs.

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Dell Data Protection Protected Workspace & Malware Prevention

CTOvision

The video below explores DDP Protected Workspace and uniquely addresses healthcare regulations related to malware prevention. Individuals take malware and obtain the characteristics pertaining to the individual and find ways to get around the malware inspections in place. The malware is from external agents.

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White Paper: Automating Your Cyber Defenses Including Malware Removal

CTOvision

We believe this is the only way to reduce the impact of malware and breaches in a cost effective way. Architecture Cyber Security DoD and IC Mobile Papers Automation Chief technology officer Computer security' This approach has been proven to significantly improve enterprise defenses. This paper.

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Resolving Embedded Files at Runtime via strace

Lacework

Jared Stroud Cloud Security Researcher, Lacework Labs Modern Linux malware binaries are being shipped with one or more embedded files. Prior to the “real payload” being dropped, it’s common to see checks for the host’s CPU architecture, Linux distribution or […]

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AI and automation will play an increasing role in technology

CIO

It’s also been flagged as a risk: cybersecurity companies have identified bad actors using ChatGPT to create malware. This change in computing has been enabled by high-speed, high-bandwidth Ethernet networking using leaf-spine architectures. That’s usually a sign that the use of an application has become widespread.