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Why endpoint security will be a renewed priority for businesses of all sizes in 2023

CIO

They achieve this via several means, but one of the most common is via phishing, which typically involves convincing someone to download a piece of malware from a legitimate-looking email that will then gather login data and other sensitive info that can give the criminals access to much more within the organisation.

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IoT Adoption in Healthcare Brings Security Opportunities

CIO

For example, according to research from Unit 42, 75% of infusion pumps have unpatched vulnerabilities. 3 Unit 42 research also found that 83% of ultrasound, MRI, and CT scanners run on an end-of-life operating system. 4 Those operating systems have known vulnerabilities that can potentially be exploited.

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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. CVE Description CVSSv3 Severity CVE-2024-21762 Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-bound Write Vulnerability in sslvpnd 9.6

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Cyber Hygiene Essentials: What You Need to Know

Tenable

The term "vulnerability" isn't synonymous with "malware" or "virus”: It simply means any weakness within your network that can be exploited. Vulnerabilities can be errors in application coding, unpatched flaws in the operating systems of hosts on the network, devices on the network with insufficient security measures or other complications.

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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. This mutation is not detectable by traditional signature-based and low-level heuristics detection engines.

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Security-Rich: How the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform Meets NSA/CISA Kubernetes Security Hardening Guidelines

d2iq

This is borne out in research that shows that “Supply chain attacks rose by 42% in the first quarter of 2021 in the U.S., Provides support for immutable operating systems such as Flatcar. NSA/CISA Guideline: Use firewalls to limit network traffic and encryption to protect confidentiality. maps to the NSA/CISA guidelines.

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The 8 Best Practices for Reducing Your Organization’s Attack Surface

Ivanti

Research from Randori and ESG reveals seven in 10 organizations were compromised by an unknown, unmanaged or poorly managed internet-facing asset over the past year. In fact, a ransomware research report from Securin, Cyber Security Works (CSW), Ivanti and Cyware showed only 180 of those 160,000+ vulnerabilities were trending active exploits.