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Backup Appliance vs. Windows Backup: What is Best for Your Business?

Strategy Driven

A large part of your digital disaster plan should involve your digital backup. Should you invest in a backup appliance or software solution? Or go with a window back up? Windows Back Up. Windows Backup is a component of your operating system that helps to backup and restore your system and data.

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Fighting Ransomware: Using Ivanti’s Platform to Build a Resilient Zero Trust Security Defense

Ivanti

Ransomware is a strain of malware that blocks users (or a company) from accessing their personal data or apps on infected iOS, iPadOS, and Android mobile devices, macOS laptops, Windows personal computers and servers, and Linux servers. Communications : The malware scans the contents of the SD card.

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Fighting Ransomware: Using Ivanti’s Platform to Build a Resilient Zero Trust Security Defense – Part 2

Ivanti

The quickest method to check for the presence of malware on your iPhone, iPad or macOS devices is to look for the presence of an unknown configuration profile within the Settings > General > VPN & Device Management settings. Victims would then be coerced to pay money to remove the malware from their devices or laptops.

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How to Protect Your Business From Supply Chain Attacks

Kaseya

The latest information on this supply chain attack, as described in this ZDNet article , indicates that hackers used a total of four malware strains: Sunspot, Sunburst (Solorigate), Teardrop and Raindrop. These malware strains were used in a sophisticated sequence of escalated attacks. Effective Tips To Better Protect Your Business.

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Three Reasons Endpoint Security Can’t Stop With Just Patching

Ivanti

AI generated polymorphic exploits can bypass leading security tools Recently, AI-generated polymorphic malware has been developed to bypass EDR and antivirus, leaving security teams with blind spots into threats and vulnerabilities. One senior software developer used their personal Windows desktop to access the corporate development sandbox.

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Ransomware hits the cloud

Lacework

In the last two years, we’ve seen a 600% increase in attacks which is not terribly surprising given ransomware, a form of malware that seeks to encrypt or withhold data unless a ransom is paid, is profitable for attackers. Move over Windows, Linux is next. Deploy effective storage security for backup and restoration.

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Radar Trends to Watch: July 2023

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This bottleneck is delaying features like custom fine-tuning the model, expanding the context window, and multimodality (i.e., To prevent becoming a victim, focus on the basics: access controls, strong passwords , multi-factor authentication, zero trust, penetration testing, and good backups.