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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO

On October 20, 2023, Okta Security identified adversarial activity that used a stolen credential to gain access to the company’s support case management system. Once inside the system, the hacker gained access to files uploaded by Okta customers using valid session tokens from recent support cases.

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10 essential tips for bolstering cloud security in your business

CIO

Instead of relying solely on perimeter defense, DiD makes it much harder for attackers to penetrate a system by requiring them to break through multiple barriers. Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) : Use an additional layer of authentication, such as a fingerprint or one-time code, to verify user identities.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Data due diligence Generative AI especially has particular implications for data security, Mann says. Feed in your entire Slack or Teams history and you may end up with responses like, “I’ll work on that tomorrow,” which would be perfectly appropriate from human employees but aren’t what you expect from a gen AI system.

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Securing Your Metadata from Cloud Heists with Prisma Cloud’s Attack Path Policies

Prisma Clud

Attached overly permissive IAM role As seen in figure 2, security teams need to watch for the combination of three misconfigurations, as they open an entrypoint for attacks ranging from data breach and exfiltration to system takeover as the attacker with liberal access moves laterally through the organization’s network.

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Maximize Your Vulnerability Scan Value with Authenticated Scanning

Tenable

Start doing authenticated scanning. Performing authenticated scans of your environment offers essential benefits and is a practice widely recognized as valuable. The scan configurations we observe in Tenable’s SaaS products are telling: our customers run unauthenticated scans 20 times more than authenticated ones.

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Start your zero-trust journey with ZTNA over VPN

CIO

Yet, it can be difficult to implement a full blown zero-trust architecture because IT teams often must first retool systems and deploy many new components. And ZTNA continues to check both the user and device to ensure they meet policy to remain connected to that application.

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How to gain a five star security reputation in hospitality

CIO

An accurate data-flow diagram(s) is maintained that meets the following: • Shows all account data flows across systems and networks. An inventory of system components that are in scope for PCI DSS, including a description of function/use, is maintained and kept current. Four recommended steps in the PCI DSS v4.0 March 2022: 12.1

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