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8 big IT failures of 2023

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The company used software from two different vendors for the purposes of “interoperability testing, validation and customer proofs of concept, training and customer support.” It turns out the system had been hit by malware , and had gone into a fallback mode in which the lights never turned off. This turned out not to be true.)

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Google: Monitor These Emerging Cloud Security Challenges in 2023

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Cloud providers’ IP addresses and open ports targeted with malware. After analyzing 2022 Q2 and Q3 data from its VirusTotal malware analysis service, Google found 6,000 malware samples actively communicating with Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Set up redundancy mechanisms and data backups.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: A ChatGPT Special Edition About What Matters Most to Cyber Pros

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Incident response Training / education Vulnerability detection Code testing Malware analysis Report writing Security operations "I'm really excited as to what I believe it to be in terms of ChatGPT as being kind of a new interface," Resilience Insurance CISO Justin Shattuck recently told Axios.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Cyber Engineers and Architects Saw Salaries Spike in 2022

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While the technology still needs to be further refined, “evaluating multiple DRL algorithms trained under diverse adversarial settings is an important step toward practical autonomous cyber defense solutions,” the researchers wrote. government to help in this area is nearing completion. government to help in this area is nearing completion.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: 6 Things That Matter Right Now

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Have a security awareness program in place to train employees on cybersecurity practices. Education, training and awareness. NIST Updates Guidance on HIPAA Security Rule Compliance ” (HIPAA Journal). There’s not enough cybersecurity education and training available to the staff of critical infrastructure providers.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Insights on Supply Chain Security, Hiring, Budgets, K8s, Ransomware

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Cybersecurity Tops the CIO Agenda as Threats Continue to Escalate ” (Wall Street Journal). small businesses increased spending this year in security tools and training, and are experiencing fewer cyber breaches – except in one category: social media account takeover. Meanwhile, 48% are offering new IT staff training, up from 44%.

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How Can CIOs Teach Their Employees About Cybersecurity?

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CIOs know that training employees is the key to keeping their network secure Image Credit: Merrill College of Journalism Press Releases. What this means for a CIO is that we are responsible for training our staff to not make silly security mistakes. A New Approach To Cybersecurity Training.