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More connected, less secure: Addressing IoT and OT threats to the enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

Weak authentication and authorization: One of the foremost vulnerabilities in IoT deployments stems from inadequate authentication and authorization practices. In fact, two notorious botnets, Mirai and Gafgyt, are major contributors to a recent surge in IoT malware attacks. of the total number of attempted IoT malware attacks.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO Business Intelligence

Why securing cloud workloads is an urgent matter In recent years, major cloud service providers encountered 6,000 malware samples actively communicating with them, underlining the magnitude of cloud security challenges. 3 We have seen an increase of 15% in cloud security breaches as compared to last year. 8 Complexity. Operational costs.

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Zero Trust

Phil Windley

My new book Learning Digital Identity from O'Reilly Media covers many of the topics in this post such as multi-factor authentication, authorization and access control, and identity policy development in depth. User Authentication: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Requiring users to provide multiple forms of verification (e.g.,

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Why You Need to Get on the Zero Trust Network Access Express Lane

CIO Business Intelligence

The biggest risk with VPNs is that malware can get into a user’s system, effortlessly ride the VPN and potentially infect the entire enterprise. VPNs typically don’t scan for viruses or other malware. In a zero trust world, everything is authenticated, authorized, and continuously validated wherever it is found.

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Modernizing Your Security Operations in the Next Phase of Covid

CIO Business Intelligence

So, if cyber thieves place malware within a spreadsheet or a slide set at a remote site, the tunnel would protect and transport the malware without question. Instead of being a locked door, VPNs became an open backdoor for the attackers to sneak malware into the heart of the enterprise network.

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Fixed wireless access (FWA) is a secure networking option

CIO Business Intelligence

5G also includes secure identity management, enhanced authentication and a core network architecture that can support network slicing, continuous secure connectivity for mobile devices and lower latency.

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Seven Massachusetts Cities Join Forces to Bolster Cybersecurity Posture

SecureWorld News

Without adhering to the kind of consistent cybersecurity standards that CREST supports, it has the potential to weaken their defenses by creating holes and cracks where attackers can hide malware." On the plus side, they did mention multi-factor authentication and EDR.