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As cybersecurity attack vectors evolve, security logging and monitoring are becoming even more important. Effective logging and monitoring enables organizations to detect and investigate security incidents quickly. Cloud-based attackers are getting more sophisticated, and often rely on stolen credentials to escalate privileges and move laterally within corporate IT networks.

Most likely, your organization leverages cloud computing because of its practical advantages: flexibility, rapid deployment, cost efficiency, scalability, and storage capacity. But do you put enough effort into ensuring the cybersecurity of your cloud infrastructure? You should, as data breaches and leaks, intellectual property theft, and compromise of trade secrets are still possible in the cloud.

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Businesses are increasingly recognizing the advantages of adopting a more flexible approach to safeguarding their data, systems and reputation in order to move beyond the limitations of traditional security solutions. In this article, we will discuss how these advantages are delivered by security as a service (SECaaS), its benefits compared with in-house solutions, and what to look for in a potential SECaas provider.

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We’re all huge fans of the Risky Biz podcast here at Tines, so we were thrilled to be invited to appear on the show recently to talk about AI’s role in security automation. I had a great conversation with host Patrick Gray about the security and privacy challenges that go along with deploying an LLM in your environment, and how our approach to AI in Tines is fundamentally different. I loved every minute of this chat, and I hope you’ll find it interesting, too.

Many acronyms and security concepts come and go without much traction, but the term continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) seems to be taking hold for the foreseeable future. CTEM, a term originally coined by Gartner, offers a cyclical approach to finding and mitigating threat exposure—which is the accessibility and exploitability of digital and physical assets—in an ongoing, proactive, and prioritized way.

Jerald Dawkins is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for CISO Global and has founded and exited several cybersecurity companies, including True Digital Security and TokenEx, LLC, both based in Oklahoma. (True Digital Security was acquired by CISO Global in January 2022.) He currently holds three (3) patents in the cybersecurity field.

Without the proper security measures, our data can be vulnerable to hardware failures, accidental deletions, cyberattacks, or data breaches. To prevent these nightmares from happening to your files, one of the best options you have is to choose a backup solution to ensure you always have your files protected in case the worst happens. For this reason, many people choose IDrive, an online backup service for Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android users.