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Security auditing web apps? Here's your checklist for a successful pen test.

Apr 2, 2024 By Marcus White In Outpost 24
A penetration test is a sanctioned assault on your organization’s electronic assets and data. If the attack is repelled, you win. If the attack successfully breaches your defenses, technically you also win – as you’ve now got the chance to fix those vulnerabilities before a real attacker tries their luck. Given the complexity of a modern enterprise, a pen test can evaluate a wide range of assets, networks, systems, and apps on premises, mobile, and in the cloud.
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National Vulnerability Database Updates: How SecurityScorecard's CVEDetails can help

Apr 2, 2024 By SecurityScorecard In SecurityScorecard
The National Vulnerability Database (NVD), the world’s most widely used vulnerability data source, has been having some problems recently, causing uncertainty and anxiety for everyone dealing with security vulnerabilities. Many organizations, including cybersecurity vendors, rely on CVE data provided by NVD. As a government organization operated by the U.S.
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Explaining Explainability

Apr 2, 2024 By Dima Potekhin In CyCognito
There is an important concept that runs through our product that I call explainability. I use the term a lot with our product and engineering teams to emphasize our data-first approach and our will to stand behind our data. The term is, well, self-explanatory, but I want to dig into it and show how it helps security professionals. To me, I don’t know any other way of building a product that customers will truly trust other than to explain how conclusions and rankings were determined.
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What is the NIST cyber security framework?

Apr 2, 2024 By Obrela In Obrela
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework is a set of guidelines and best practices designed to help organisations better manage and reduce cybersecurity risk. It stands for the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (CSF). The Framework was developed by NIST, part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and first published in 2014, following an executive order by then President, Barack Obama which focused on improving the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure in the United States.
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How to Create Emergency Response Plans for Schools

Apr 1, 2024 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Security is crucial in daily life. It is the responsibility of the school management to develop reliable security measures for the children of their school. It includes laying down adequate emergency response plans for potential scenarios threatening the institution. Schools will safeguard lives by following emergency response plans. Explore each idea to help you make more informed decisions and be fully prepared. Remember that everyone needs to know the plan at their fingertips and practice it when required.
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Weak Authentication Attacks: 49% report high costs

Apr 1, 2024 By The Editor In WatchGuard
Cyberattacks on large companies grab the headlines, creating the false impression that only big organizations are targeted by cybercriminals. This misleads smaller companies into believing that they are not potential targets because of their size or low profile. However, threats against small and medium-sized companies have been a cause for concern in recent years. Experts warn that companies with fewer than 100 employees are especially vulnerable to a range of threats.
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Data Access Governance: The Blueprint of Cloud Data Access Management

Apr 1, 2024 By Dean Pe'er In Entitle
In an era where data breaches are as common as they are damaging, securing sensitive information has become paramount for businesses across the globe. Data Access Governance stands at the forefront of this battle, ensuring that the right people have the right access to the right data at the right time. It's a holistic approach that not only fortifies data against unauthorized access but also enables organizations to harness its full potential responsibly and efficiently.
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Outsmarting Cyber Threats: Etay Maor Unveils the Hacker's Playbook in the Cloud Era

Apr 1, 2024 By Kevin Petschow In Cato Networks
In an era where cyber threats evolve as rapidly as the technology they target, understanding the mindset of those behind the attacks is crucial. This was the central theme of a speech given by Etay Maor, Senior Director of Security Strategy, of Cato Networks at the MSP EXPO 2024 Conference & Exposition in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Titled, “SASE vs.
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XZ Backdoor / RCE (CVE-2024-3094) is the Biggest Supply Chain Attack Since Log4j

Apr 1, 2024 By Vitaly Simonovich In Cato Networks
A severe backdoor has been discovered in XZ Utils versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, potentially allowing threat actors to remotely access systems using these versions within SSH implementations. Many major Linux distributions were inadvertently distributing compromised versions. Consult your distribution’s security advisory for specific impact information.
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AI - The Good, Bad, and Scary

Apr 1, 2024 By Matt Mui In AT&T Cybersecurity
AI and machine learning (ML) optimizes processes by making recommendations for optimizing productivity, reducing cycles, and maximizing efficiency. AI also optimizes human capital by performing mundane & repetitive tasks 24x7 without the need for rest and minimizing human errors. There are numerous benefits as to how AI can benefit society. As much as AI can propel human progress forward, it can be consequential to our own detriment without proper guidance.
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