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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. Caesars noted in a filing that an “unauthorized actor” had stolen data in a social engineering attack targeting an outsourced IT support vendor, according to an InfoSecurity report.

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

CIO

Uncovering the domestic and foreign threats to critical infrastructure Critical infrastructure refers to the physical and virtual systems and assets so vital to our society that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic stability, public health, or safety.

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How to manage cloud exploitation at the edge

CIO

Companies that have embraced the cloud need to understand the Shared Responsibility Model: a security and compliance framework that explains what shared infrastructure and systems the cloud provider is responsible for maintaining and how a customer is responsible for operating systems, data, and applications utilizing the cloud.

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Add brand security to your workload

CIO

Last month in this column , I wrote about how businesses need to “lock up the front door” to their systems to prevent phishing attacks and take a multi-tiered approach to rethinking the identity of their employees, partners, and customers. Social media security has just risen to be a top priority for not only CISOs, but CMOs, CFOs, and CEOs.

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AI's Offensive & Defensive Impacts

Palo Alto Networks

The Phishing Threat Becomes Much Stronger In the near-term of the next 6-12 months, Sikorski believes the top way AI will be leveraged offensively is for supercharging social engineering attacks, like phishing and business email compromise (BEC).

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Add brand security to your workload

CIO

Last month in this column , I wrote about how businesses need to “lock up the front door” to their systems to prevent phishing attacks and take a multi-tiered approach to rethinking the identity of their employees, partners, and customers. Social media security has just risen to be a top priority for not only CISOs, but CMOs, CFOs, and CEOs.

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO

Hackers take advantage of out-of-date systems, software, and known security issues. However, outdated operating systems can be more vulnerable to security risks because they may lack the latest security updates and patches, serving as an entry point for hackers to infiltrate networks.

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