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10 essential tips for bolstering cloud security in your business

CIO

This makes it more critical than ever to adopt strong security measures to protect sensitive information and infrastructure. Adopt a Defense in Depth strategy Defense in Depth (DiD) is a cybersecurity strategy that involves implementing multiple layers of security controls throughout the entire infrastructure.

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How to manage cloud exploitation at the edge

CIO

The Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing model enables remote working, supports digital transformation, provides scale, increases resilience, and can reduce costs. Cloud infrastructure is especially sensitive, as many critical applications are at risk, such as customer-facing applications. Watch on-demand here.

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO

However, outdated operating systems can be more vulnerable to security risks because they may lack the latest security updates and patches, serving as an entry point for hackers to infiltrate networks. What is fixed wireless access?

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO

Having segmentation between infrastructure providing data processing and data storage is an example of a broad IT security architectural pattern. All other needs, for example, authentication, encryption, log management, system configuration, would be treated the same—by using the architectural patterns available.

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CVE-2024-21762: Critical Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-Bound Write SSL VPN Vulnerability

Tenable

critical infrastructure through exploitation of known vulnerabilities Background On February 8, Fortinet published an advisory (FG-IR-24-015) to address a critical flaw in FortiOS, its network operating system. Critical Infrastructure (AA24-038A) Join Tenable's Security Response Team on the Tenable Community.

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Mocking Smart Card Authentication During Development

Tandem

Recently, we were engaged to implement smart card authentication for an application meant to be deployed to restricted areas – but we didn’t have access to the smart card / public key infrastructure (PKI) that would allow us to test “real-life” use cases end to end. That was the full lifecycle of authentication via PKI!

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Understanding the new era of digital workplace platforms?

CIO

We see from one end of the market (mainly small and midsize businesses) that providers like Zoho fully position their platform as the operating system for business. This step involves shared middleware services such as access control and authentication, scheduling, and content management.