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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO

Recent cyberattacks at MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment have put the spotlight on cybersecurity practices at casinos – and the importance of educating employees on social engineering tactics. As learned from recent cyberattacks, user education has become a critical component to protecting against these threats as well.

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How to minimize remote access cyber security threats in 2024

CIO

Some of the most at-risk industries include several critical infrastructure sectors such as: Healthcare Utilities and energy Manufacturing Education State/national governments The growing trend of targeting critical infrastructure is concerning, as we’ve seen attacks like SolarWinds have devastating impacts.

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11 Tips to Keep Your Company’s IT Systems Safe

Invid Group

Educate Your Employees Human error is often the weakest link in IT security. Educate your employees about the importance of cybersecurity and provide training on best practices. Consider implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever possible to enhance security.

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The need for DevSecOps in the embedded world

Xebia

It could be due to the IT industry fragmentation , developers not being educated about age old security issues o r even the rush to production to minimize time to market. Using the vulnerabilities found, an attacker could get root access to the BMC without any authentication. In my opinion, there’ s not one answer to this question.

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Five Remote Access Security Risks And How To Protect Against Them

Palo Alto Networks

Here are five top security risks that teams must deal with, as well as technology and user education best practices to keep users and data safe: 1. The problem is that many legacy firewall rules enable access to practically everything in the network. Recommendation : Again – user education is paramount !

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Telehealth and Cybersecurity: 3 Best practices to ensure data security in remote patient care

Trigent

While the latter can be resolved through user education or caregiver-assisted consultations, cybersecurity is a bigger problem. Three best practices to ensure data security in remote patient care are: Multi-factor authentication of identity. Simple user/password authentication and authorization will not suffice in such scenarios.

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Stony Brook Automates Security With Palo Alto Networks and Internet2

Palo Alto Networks

If you work in higher education IT, you know that Internet2 provides high-speed networks, cloud solutions, research support and services that are tailored for higher education, research institutions and government entities. Given the critical need to protect information and intellectual property, it makes perfect sense.

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