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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, being able to move from slot machine to slot machine using a digital wallet stored on your phone. As learned from recent cyberattacks, user education has become a critical component to protecting against these threats as well. What emerging technologies are you most excited about?

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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

For example, in one of the most notable cases of a cyberattack on a nonproft, $650,000 was stolen from One Treasure Island , and the attack vector used was a third-party bookkeeping solution. For instance, hardware- or software-based firewalls can monitor incoming and outgoing network traffic and block suspicious activity.

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Kronos Ransomware Attack Reveals How Your Customers Will React

SecureWorld News

I'm kicking myself for not doing my own daily data backups. And you can certainly expect questions about your backups. See what chsalcedo wrote to the Kronos user group: "Where are the backups, can't the backups be restored? Are the backups stored in the same "cloud/space" as production, that doesn't make sense?

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How can such a small file do so much damage?

Dataconomy

For example, a zip bomb file that is only a few kilobytes in size can expand to hundreds of gigabytes or even terabytes when decompressed. For example, a recursive zip bomb might contain a zip file containing another zip file, and so on. For example, a non-recursive zip bomb that can expand to 1TB can be as small as 10MB.

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A Slow Website Will Cost You Sales

Galido

Do you plan on doing your own backups? Does the web host provide automated backups and how often? How much storage for backups do they provide? As websites are commonly hacked and breached, backups, in addition to security, are an important element for deciding on which host to go with.

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Website Server Planning Tips

Galido

Or will you be able to expand your website in the future (by adding additional domain names and e-mail addresses, for example) while paying only for what you need? Redudancy and Backups. Do you plan on doing your own backups? Does the webhost provide automated backups and how often? Enhanced Security. Enhanced Security.

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InfoSec Policies and Standards: Some strategic context for those just diving into this world

CTOvision

Backup Policy. Firewall Policy. How firewalls are named, configured etc. Firewall Policy. How firewalls are named, configured etc. One example is the use of encryption to create a secure channel between two entities. How employees are terminated. How data are backed up. Virus Policy. Retention Policy.

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