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Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs

CIO

Malware distribution The opportunistic nature of website spoofing allows attackers to distribute malware to users’ devices. The distribution of malware serves various purposes, from causing general system distribution to potentially being employed as a tool for more sophisticated cyberattacks.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO

The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. And arise it did on January 24, when a Chicago employee failed to turn the backup server off at the appropriate time.

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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

By leveraging these tools, organizations can utilize multiple technologies like Active Directory alongside Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions to build layered corporate defense and more accurately detect threats and respond quickly which leads to improved security performance.

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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

CIO

A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. Sometimes the malware has errors, but with simple repetition the hacker can generate multiple working versions of the code. Such polymorphic malware is particularly hard to detect, because it may be different from one attack to another.

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Google: Monitor These Emerging Cloud Security Challenges in 2023

Tenable

In its latest “Threat Horizons” report, Google’s Cybersecurity Action Team details cloud security trends that it expects will have an impact in 2023 in areas including identity and access management (IAM), data backups and operational technology (OT.). Cloud providers’ IP addresses and open ports targeted with malware.

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Infinidat and Kyndryl Deliver Modern Data Protection, Cyber Resiliency, and Primary Storage for a Fortune Global 500 Enterprise

Infinidat

Take a look at the metrics the customer shared with us: The InfiniGuard system has reduced the full backup time for one of their databases to ONLY 30 minutes from 5 hours with their former products – a 10x improvement Infinidat has reduced the backup time for another workload to ONLY 4.75

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO

Users on your network accessing business tools, social media, streaming services, or files are oftentimes unaware of the potential dangers of navigating to a malicious website or the consequences of clicking a seemingly innocuous link they received in an email.

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