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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. It’s not as simple as just extending traditional firewall capabilities to the cloud. 8 Complexity.

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Cyber Best Practices for Overseas Asset Security

SecureWorld News

If you can mandate strong password policies and multi-factor authentication (MFA) for systems and data, you'll work wonders in preserving valuable data in transit. Enforce enterprise-grade antivirus, firewalls, and internet security software across all connected devices.

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Ingenious Phishing Tactics in the Modern Scammer's Toolbox

SecureWorld News

It serves as a vessel for various strains of malware, including ransomware, and underlies data-stealing campaigns that target large organizations and individuals alike. To view it, the unsuspecting person has to go through a rabbit hole of authentication steps. And for good reason.

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Security requires long haul planning

Cloud Musings

It also complicates many aspects of data security for any enterprises doing business across the Atlantic Ocean. This recent ruling highlights the value of having a strong security partner shepherding your enterprise through these types of perturbations. This, for instance, may mean using a one-time authentication token.

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How to Protect WordPress Sites from Exploitation

SecureWorld News

Fundamentally, across the site, strong password policies and multi-factor authentication (MFA) must be enabled. Backing this up with MFA—via a third-party authenticator app—will ensure all login attempts are valid and verified, which will help if multiple users are trying to access a WordPress back-end.

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The changing face of cybersecurity threats in 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Using the “same old” low-skill tactics, common tools, and a bit of social engineering, hackers can get around complex security policies such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and identity and access management (IAM) systems. It’s a common misconception that only enterprise domains are spoofed. SMBs and startups are equally at risk.

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MSP cybersecurity: What you should know

Dataconomy

Ransomware With hundreds of millions of attacks occurring every year, ransomware has been an emerging threat for SMBs and enterprise organizations throughout at least a decade. Ransomware is malware that sneakily infiltrates an organization’s environment and then starts encrypting all the data at reach.

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