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Password Encryption 101: Best Practices Guide for Orgs of All Sizes

SecureWorld News

Malware Certain types of malicious software are designed to steal passwords or attempt to crack passwords. Keeping software and operating systems up to date, using security software, and being careful when opening email attachments or clicking links can help avoid malware. Finally, implement a database disaster recovery plan.

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Cyber Resilient Storage: An Essential Component of a Corporate Cybersecurity Strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

Keeping storage separate, as if in a silo, from your company’s comprehensive cybersecurity strategy is not only a lost opportunity, but, more importantly, it is also a trigger for increasing the risk of a cyber attack infiltrating, disrupting, costing, and making your company’s data a target for ransomware or malware. Cyberattacks

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EPA Issues Urgent Alert for Water Utilities to Enhance Cyber Defenses

SecureWorld News

Critical lymph structure preventative measures must include cyber threat intelligence and disaster preparedness planning. Disaster recovery (DR) planning must include purple training, where it is demonstrated that bad actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) are defended against," Dunham continued.

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Scott Lowe

” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. I recently stumbled across this utility to help protect your macOS-based system against persistent malware. Servers/Hardware. Programming.

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You can easily virtualize your physical storage

Dataconomy

This reduces the risk of conflicts between applications and helps prevent malware and viruses from spreading between VMs. Server virtualization also provides isolation and security, as each virtual machine (VM) is isolated from other VMs running on the same physical server.