CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2023

Multifactor authentication fatigue and biometrics shortcomings Multifactor authentication (MFA) is a popular technique for strengthening the security around logins. A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware. The malware itself is easy to buy on the Dark Web.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I also emphasized that companies need to urgently review their employee access protocol, writing that companies must “ make it a point to do continuous employee training to help your teams avoid being duped by phishing and malware tactics.” It might make us feel safer and more secure in our connected world.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 10, 2022

Covid’s deadly trail has, thus far, forced enterprise cybersecurity into three distinct phases. For many enterprises, the first sign of VPN trouble manifested the very day that most sites were set up. Phase one was the rush to keep business moving in the face of an uncertain pandemic.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 21, 2023

Info stealers are a type of malware that specializes in collecting various credentials and personal information from infected computers. To mitigate the risks associated with compromised ChatGPT accounts, Group-IB advises users to update their passwords regularly and implement two-factor authentication (2FA).

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be secure and protected. How do enterprises combat these threats at a broader scale and prevent persistent phishing attempts?

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While cybersecurity protects from any possible attacks on enterprise assets and employee/customer data of an organization sitting in cyberspace, the latter focuses more on protecting revenue from the risks of transactions running on these applications and networks. No criminal will stop after breaching the first layer of security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2023

Small- and medium-sized businesses and enterprises have accelerated their move into the cloud since the global pandemic. Malware Distribution: Cloud exploitation can involve hosting or distributing malware through cloud-based platforms or services. What can businesses do?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Not in the world of enterprise security technology — at least not this week. government agencies by illicitly inserting malware into software updates for a widely used IT infrastructure management product. “This particular piece of malware is difficult to detect. .” Ah, the week before the holidays.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 22, 2023

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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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

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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Vox

JUNE 29, 2022

She blocked her friend’s account, changed her password, and enabled two-factor authentication. “I The basic rule of thumb is simply hang up, and call whatever enterprise you think called you directly,” Alex Quilici, CEO of robocall-blocking software company YouMail, explains. I was just very naive and trusting,” Giordano tells me. “I

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2023

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. The question isn't if they'll get hit but when."

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 22, 2021

Mandiant is currently tracking 12 malware families associated with the exploitation of Pulse Secure VPN devices. These families are related to the circumvention of authentication and backdoor access to these devices, but they are not necessarily related to each other and have been observed in separate investigations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Supporting enterprise security during a cloud migration can be rife with pitfalls that can derail the initiative and ruin the customer experience. She joined the company in the middle of a corporate cloud transformation initiative and inherited a new Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution as part of an enterprise cybersecurity overhaul.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2015

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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A Screw's Loose

AUGUST 28, 2012

Essentially he has built a Venn Diagram based around 3 concepts, Mobile Security, API Security, and Enterprise Security. We may disagree slightly about MAM since I think it ties into Enterprise Security as well but I think in his case it pertains to how he has set this diagram focused around security. Enterprise. Recent Posts.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

From embedding malware or a phishing link in a document to manipulated or outright forged documents and other types of cyber fraud, the increase in document-related attacks cannot be ignored, especially if your company handles tax forms, business filings, or bank statements–the three types of most frequently manipulated documents.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Editor’s note: In-memory computing has been a fast growing trend in enterprise IT. Solution provides real-time detection, identification, and mitigation of advanced malware that operates in endpoint volatile memory . In the case of an exploit, the malware injects itself into a normal process. By Bob Gourley. – bg.

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A Screw's Loose

MARCH 5, 2013

They throw around words like secure containers, containerization (hmm…somebody went to marketing class and turned it into a verb), encryption, VPN, Secure Communication, EMM (Enterprise Mobile Management) and a whole host of other terms that of course make it okay to bring your device into work. These people all miss the point.

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A Screw's Loose

MAY 14, 2012

Philippe Winthrop has asked the panel about developing apps in HTML 5 as a way to build for every device and using that as a strategy in the enterprise. They then map out how to authenticate the user. Pingback: Hybrid mobile apps will conquer the mobile enterprise. Enterprise. Enterprise Mobility. link] futur.

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Mobile Enterprise Enterprise Strategy 56

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2023

Global instability complicates this situation further as attacks against critical infrastructure around the world spiked following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with the deployment of Industroyer2 malware that is specifically designed to target and cripple critical industrial infrastructure.

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Security Authentication Network System 97

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

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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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

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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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Given that businesses are seeing more frequent and damaging social engineering threats, it's no wonder why many organizations are seeking to implement stronger, enterprise-grade cybersecurity solutions and invest in robust awareness training. Embrace the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a baseline defense tactic.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 25, 2023

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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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Enterprise endpoint protection and remediation (anti-malware, anti-virus software). Training for employees (awareness). Privacy training, specifically. Well documented policies and standards for employees (data handling).

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Data Training Insurance Comparison 71

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

So, you know, a or a group of enterprising hackers thought huh. However, if somewhere along the supply chain, a bad actor has access to the package and can inject their malware into the system, then some huge problems can can occur. Because it's network monitoring tools. And sure enough, that's what happened. Vamosi: This is bad.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

So, you know, a or a group of enterprising hackers thought huh. However, if somewhere along the supply chain, a bad actor has access to the package and can inject their malware into the system, then some huge problems can can occur. Because it's network monitoring tools. And sure enough, that's what happened. Vamosi: This is bad.

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Healthcare Network System Automotive 52

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2022

In fact, 85% of enterprises will embrace a cloud-first principle by 2025 and 95% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms. Gone are the days when enterprises were hampered when it comes to speed. Zero-trust network access : (ZTNA) enables safe and secure access to enterprise applications for remote users.

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A Screw's Loose

MARCH 13, 2012

I recently gave a presentation at the Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise conference in San Francisco. I spent the whole presentation on Securing the Mobile Enterprise building up to the the fact that most businesses were approaching mobile strategy using legacy thinking and now was the time to get out of the habit.

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Mobile Strategy Dell Enterprise 78

CTOvision

JANUARY 21, 2017

Expect to see bare-metal cloud to displace hyper-visor based cloud for the enterprise. Despite continued advances in security like AES encryption and multi-factor authentication, we don’t seem to be winning the war on cybercrime. Trend #5—Upset in Public Cloud. For over a decade Amazon has ruled the public cloud.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

If you’re running edge detection, if your scanning your networks, even occasionally rebooting your servers these activities will remove some running malware, yet the bad actors somehow return and remain persistent. Stealth malware. And of course, it's not that ideal in the enterprise. Special coding tricks?

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Vamosi: Ransomware is the latest trend in malware. It’s a clever way for malware to be monetized. That’s what a criminal malware enterprise looks like today. One of the things we noticed about the malware whether it was packed or unpacked was compressed or not compressed when it's initially sent over.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Log4j is used in many applications or is present, with dependencies in enterprise applications as well as numerous cloud services, all of which makes updating all the possible uses for it hard, even if coordinated in advance. The trouble is, details of this leaked prematurely. In fact, you can just spin up another VM.

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Vox

JUNE 16, 2021

Ransomware is malware that locks up access to its victim’s systems and then demands a ransom, usually in cryptocurrency, to unlock them. How the malware gets in the systems depends on the type used, but email phishing attacks are one of the most common ways. Ransomware, explained. This will supposedly change soon.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 21, 2022

Kyle Hanslovan CEO of Huntress Labs joins The Hacker Mind to discuss recent LoL attacks, specifically the Microsoft Follina attack and the Kaseya ransomware attack, and how important it is for small and medium sized businesses to start using enterprise grade security, given the evolving nature of these attacks. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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