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Report: SMEs Are Prime Targets and Must Plan for Disaster Recovery

SecureWorld News

The pandemic, geopolitical factors, and the new hybrid/work-from-home landscape put midsize companies at 500% more risk of being targeted in 2021. A disaster-recovery plan is no longer an option for SMEs; it's a must-have. The key is to minimize any damage.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Turn off the lights, the party’s over This next story is, technically, an IT fail that dates back to 2021, but we’ll include it this year’s roundup because it was in 2023 when it was finally resolved. But in August 2021, teachers and students noticed that the lights were staying on at full brightness continuously.

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Securing 5G for 2023 and beyond

CIO Business Intelligence

We must secure up to and including Layer 7 (the application layer) to ensure that business continues on in this 24/7 environment. This includes advanced malware, command-and-control botnets, code injection, and application vulnerabilities. 5G is designed to go places. Security needs to keep up. trillion by 2030.1 Radio rogues.

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Should You Have a Business Email Compromise Incident Response Plan?

SecureWorld News

You have a Business Continuity Plan. But do you have a Business Email Compromise (BEC) Incident Response Plan? The basics of the BEC scam are explained in a July 2021 SecureWorld article that interviewed Stephen Dougherty of the U.S. You have a Disaster Recovery Plan and a Cyber Incident Response Plan. Secret Service.

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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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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

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He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. I’m Robert Vamosi and in this episode I’m exploring a novel database operating system that promises to be disruptive to how we mitigate malware today. CODEN: From 2016 to 2021. This is a novel approach to malware. Music] VAMOSI: What is an operating system?